Heather Herttna

Description

I am a native US English speaker with over 3000 hours of formal Pashto and Dari language study at the National Cryptologic University and a B.A. in German with additional graduate hours in German Pedagogy from Kent State University,.

I have been working professionally in the language pairs of Afghan Pashto to English, Afghan Persian Dari to English, and German to English for over 20 years with experience in translation, transcription, proofreading, and quality review of documents and audio files for the U.S. Government and as a freelance translator.

I also have extensive experience designing advanced Pashto and Dari language curricula and coursework and teaching Pashto to English translation techniques and Pashto grammar for the U.S. Government's National Cryptologic University.