Prof. Mtro. Yamandu Ploskonka DSLL page 5 of 20
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Languages & Multicultural Experience

Tourist guide in English, French, German, for Crillon Tours, Bolivia
Some successful experience in simultaneous translation to/from English, French, and Spanish (it’s fun, intense, challenging, but tiring !  In sum, I love it)
Authored bi-lingual multimedia CD ROM (English/Spanish)

  • English
    • Fluent, I have often been congratulated on my broad vocabulary
    • Graduated from the Santiago Christian School, an English-speaking High School in the Dominican Republic.
    • Taught English as a foreign language at several levels in Bolivia and Uruguay
    • Did translation work in varied areas, mainly technical, medical, theology, science
    • Language of choice for most technical work and international communication
  • French
    • Fluent
    • Diplome Supérieur de Langue et Littérature Françaises, 3ème Degré, University of Nancy II, France.   This diploma allows the holder to teach French in France.
    • Experience teaching French at High School level as a foreign language
  • Spanish
    • Fluent
    • Mother tongue.
    • Taught Spanish and Uruguayan Literature, to native speakers
    • Taught Spanish as a foreign language to private English-speaking clients
  • German
    • Basic communication level
    • My experience as tourist guide in German for Crillon Tours was somewhat more than what I can really do in this language
  • Portuguese
    • Basic communication level
  • Italian
    • Basic communication level
  • Aymara, Czech
    • Greetings and such.  Working on these

Multicultural Experience
Aware and practicing of multicultural understanding, being myself of varied backgrounds and having lived and shared varied cultures, languages, customs.
The way I have absorbed and can share on some of those cultures is obviously as varied as they are themselves, from considering some of their traditional dishes as my favorites, to a liking for their music, philosophy, values, etc.

  • Lived in Uruguay, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, United States, Chile, and shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Panama.
  • From my family background I share the cultures of native american cultures (Quechua, Aymara, whose language I am currently trying to learn, Guarani, which gives origin to my first name), Czech Lands and Poland, Spain, and American Hispanic
  • From learning institutions I have attended  I became immersed in French, German and US cultures.
  • I have also researched into Japanese, Chinese and Korean traditions