About Me
Clint Albano
I’m a native speaker of English. Arabic is my second language. I worked as a project manager or general manager for 3 different private companies in Saudi Arabia, The Sultanate of Oman and Egypt for a total of 38 years (1982-2020). Getting through to the correct meaning of Arabic texts was crucial in my work.
So by necessity I:
- Became familiar, from daily work, with Arabic general meanings and technical terms from accounting, legal, and government documents.
- Learned specialized words and expressions, and their variations from country to country, for heavy machinery, construction, agriculture, irrigation, manufacturing processes, and civil works
- Translated from Arabic to English, very often by myself, tender documents dealing with purchases and projects.
- Learned much about the culture, customs and folkways, business practices, legal practices and government procedures of the Arab world from living – 38 years – in three different Arab countries. I also visited, multiple times on business, 10 additional Arab countries.
- Learned to speak Modern Standard Arabic, while also mixing it with Egyptian, Levantine, and Gulf dialects when appropriate.
Clint Albano
I’m a native speaker of English, Arabic is my second language. I worked as a project manager or general manager for 3 different private companies in Saudi Arabia, The Sultanate of Oman and Egypt for a total of 38 years (1982-2020). Getting through to the correct meaning of Arabic texts was crucial in my work.
So by necessity I:
- Became familiar, from daily work, with Arabic general meanings and technical terms from accounting, legal, and government documents.
- Learned specialized words and expressions, and their variations from country to country, for heavy machinery, construction, agriculture, irrigation, manufacturing processes, and civil works
- Translated from Arabic to English, very often by myself, tender documents dealing with purchases and projects.
- Learned much about the culture, customs and folkways, business practices, legal practices and government procedures of the Arab world from living – 38 years – in three different Arab countries. I also visited, multiple times on business, 10 additional Arab countries.
- Learned to speak Modern Standard Arabic, while also mixing it with Egyptian, Levantine, and Gulf dialects when appropriate.
Education
- BA History Brigham Young University
- MA Middle East History University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Arabic Study
- University of California Los Angeles - two years intermediate and advanced Arabic grammar and Arabic literature
- University of California Berkeley – NDFL Title 9 Fellowship Intensive Arabic
- University of Washington – NDFL Title 9 Fellowship Intensive Arabic
- New York University - passed the 3 courses I have taken:
- Arabic to English Translation: An Introduction
- Arabic to English Commercial Translation
- Arabic to English Medical Translation