Dutch Translation Services

About Us

Dutch Translation Services, established by Tineke Van Beukering, is based in Capalaba, an Eastern suburb of Brisbane, Australia. Tineke was born and raised in the Netherlands and is a native Dutch speaker. She lived in Germany for 4 years before migrating to Australia in 2000. She was fascinated by languages from an early age and is fluent in Dutch, English and German and has a good command of French. In January 2008, she obtained NAATI accreditation as a professional translator Dutch ↔ English. She is a member of AUSIT (Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators), the professional organisation for interpreters and translators in Australia.

In addition to her language skills, Tineke has a highly scientific background with a Masters degree in Science (Chemistry) and postgraduate work experience in Fundamental Physics. She has worked as system application manager handling large amounts of chemical data in chemical databases and has worked on chemical research projects in the Netherlands and in the USA using various types of spectroscopy.

Tineke offers the unique combination of a scientist who is also an accredited translator. These qualifications enable her to work on a broad range of scientific projects. She specialises in (bio)chemistry and physics and translates material such as Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and chemical labels. She has extensive experience in post-editing machine translated petrochemical documents and MT process optimisation.

In 2009, Tineke supported the organising committee of the Dutch Chemistry Olympiad by providing free English translations of the questions & answers of the 2009 Dutch Olympiad for use at the 2009 International Chemistry Olympiad in Cambridge, UK. Examples of this work can be downloaded below:
Original Dutch Questions English translation (questions)
Original Dutch Answers English translation (answers)