Your Right Hand in Ourense

Linguistic Support for Your Real Estate Operations and Relocation

About me

I’m a person who’s trying to make her life interesting… and so does a lot of life design and management.

As a kid, I only played with Lego building apartment buildings for my horses from Kinder Surprise, and treehouses for myself and my friends in my grandma’s garden. As the older sister in a single-mom family, I was let free to make my own decisions since a very young age. One of them was graduating in Political Science. This decision defined my adult life: having no mainstream profession, I had to pursue with more or less success my own business ideas. I worked as a freelancer at all kinds of remote-only roles in all kinds of companies from multinational consultancy firms to local Spanish tiny manufacturers.

Having flexibility and free time as a freelancer, I developed a passion for the real estate market (yeah, I thought it was like playing Lego). I had already made a smart investment of my mom’s resources in an apartment when I was 25. That was in Bulgaria, while I come from Russia and at the time, I was living in Italy (I’ve traveled a lot and I’ve lived in 6 different countries). When I was 30, I sold the apartment in Bulgaria, put my savings on top and bought another one, a very underestimated one, in Valencia, Spain. This one grew threefold in price just in 5 years. I viewed dozens of apartments with my friends as a consultant and developed practical knowledge of the real estate market of Valencia. I got offered a collaboration by a foreign real estate investment fund and currently, I make investment viability analyses for them.

Moving to Ourense

In late 2023 – early 2024, I had already assimilated that my passion was real estate...

I already wanted to abandon enterprise, so I started looking into buying a country house. My research (I had developed 4 selection criteria) brought me from the Valencian Community to the Province of Ourense. I first came here in 2023 to get to know this land. I liked it. In 2024, I came again to learn more. In 2025, I was already mature to start searching for a house (but I still had fears thinking that I would have to live alone with no man or dog in a house in the middle of nowhere with just 2 or 3 neighbors in the whole village).

In 2025, after having traveled to Ourense 4 times in one year, I finally rented a house. I moved for good in the winter of 2026, and in May 2026, after a very intense process full of adventures and discoveries at each step, I finally bought my lovely house.

Thanks to this process, I learned how to:

  • Tell stone of high quality from stone of low quality
  • Develop quality criteria for stone houses
  • Get a loan for a house with no entry in the Real Estate Registry
  • Collect the ownership papers
  • Collect the local administration papers
  • Get a newly bought house registered
  • Fix the cadaster “issues” (sometimes mistakes are blatant)
  • Find a good notary
  • Get your land measured by a topographer
  • Find a construction company
  • Get water and sewerage access
  • Get electricity connected without selling a kidney
  • Get many more challenges sorted out and…
  • Develop patience and serenity

If you’re interested in my professional profile, you can have a look at my Linkedin, however, I don’t think our profession defines our identity.

I’d be happy to collaborate with you and hopefully, we may become neighbors some day!

How I Work

I convey one speaker’s thoughts to another, preserving the content but adapting the form to cultural expectations.

While one idea may be crystally clear to the speakers of a language variety, it may be not so evident or completely opaque to people from a different culture.

I make sure I understand the real idea behind the words of the speakers and identify their intentions. I transmit the meaning and not the words.

I strive to adapt the style, tone and language to the comprehension style of the interlocutor so that the information flows naturally and both sides understand each other.

We aim at identifying a purpose in the communication and at reaching the goals. I make sure both parties express themselves and clarified their goals.

Working Experience

2023 – present: Smartling – LQA Arbitration Specialist

AI generates translations of the interface for various programs. A human reviews them, and two other people categorize the types of errors (LQA). I resolve disputes between conflicting assessments.

2019 – present: Welocalize – Software Localization Specialist

AI generates the translations of a website or app interface. Several people correct the AI’s errors. I check whether the corrections are accurate, produce quality reports, and train my team.

2016 – 2023: KB Pro – Game Localization Soecialist

The code of a video game app is written in English or Russian. I translate the interface and content of the app into other languages, generate translation memories, and create the terminology.

2008 – 2014, present: Freelance Consultant

I collaborate with companies that have clients or suppliers with whom they don’t share a common language, providing them with interpretation, translation, international project management, or agent services.

Education

2017 – 2022: PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

My thesis explores the cognitive processes involved in human comprehension—how our brain is activated to understand a non-native language.

2017 (summer school)  – “Tradumàtica”, translation technologies

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

I learned to use machine translation tools, regular expressions, and tools for creating subtitles.

2017 (spring) – Linguistics applied to TESOL

Universidad de California, Riverside – Extension, on site

To successfully convey information, it’s important to understand how the human mind works. We studied learning theories.

2014 – 2015: MA in Intercultural Communication applied to Tourism

Università degli Studi di Roma Tre

Foreign languages applied to the tourism sector: international tourism, assertive intercultural communication.

2015 (summer school) – Laboratorio di Intercomprensione EuRom5

Università degli Studi di Roma Tre

We learned to understand texts in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and French by recycling our knowledge of Italian.

2005 – 2010: MA in Political Science and Foreign Languages

Universidad estatal lingüística de Moscú

Information management skills (analysis, summarization, and transformation/translation) applied to international relations.

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