Foe as far back as my memory serves, this has been a constant for me. I may have been born in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, but I feel truly cosmopolitan, a global citizen. I can remember when I was just six years old on holiday on a beach in Fuerteventura when I saw another little girl, playing by herself. I wanted to play with her, of course, but found she spoke “different”. We managed anyway as kids do and that moment marked my life. I had discovered the power of language and how important it is to find ways to overcome our linguistic barriers to come to true understanding.
Every good story requires an illustration, a symbol to remember it by. Our symbol in Tradunexia is the bridge of Vasco da Gama in Portugal. Because a bridge is much more than a structure. It brings together people and things that were previously separated, isolated. Tradunexia , like the Vasco da Gama bridge, is a solid structure, built on steady supports. And it reflects our mission: to build links and bonds that previously did not exist because there was no means of effective communication between them.
ABOUT ME: BRIDGING CULTURES THROUGH TRUE COMMUNICATION
This driving desire of mine to create communication and understanding led me to graduate in Translation and Interpreting (English and French) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. After 18 years of working for others; I decided that it was time for me to branch out on my own and to structure a project I could be proud of. That was how Tradunexia was set up, all of 10 years ago with the overriding aim of allowing anyone anywhere to be understood fully in another language and culture and to communicate their ideas and reality without stress, and with total confidence.
