About Me Competencies Background While I was raised in Kazakhstan and Russia, I benefited from my mother teaching me English from the time I was a young girl. I received my bachelor’s degree in Translation and Linguistics, and moved to New York City at the age of twenty to work in the field. I have been working here since and have become one of the best in my industry. You will find that my translated work is at the highest level, and is indistinguishable from native speakers of the target language in both English and Russian.