Ms Magdalena Baranowska participated as a Spanish language specialist in the linguistic - IT project organized by Samsung R&D Institute Poland. Her substantial competence as well as involvement in accomplishment of above mentioned project contributed to the development of innovative products and services created by Samsung Company. Considering satisfactory realization of charged tasks Ms Magdalena Baranowska deserves the positive note of her immediate and other superiors.

Since 2010, Magdalena Baranowska cooperates with and works as a freelance translator/interpreter for the company Dualia Teletraducciones SL, a company which offers over-the-phone interpretaron Services focused on social and health sectors. Most representative clients assisted by Magdalena Baranowska:

• EMPRESA PÚBLICA DE EMERGENCIAS SANITARIAS DE ANDALUCÍA. (ANDALUSIA EMERGENCIES PUBLIC COMPANY)
• SERVICIO MADRILEÑO DE SALUD (MADRID HEALTH SYSTEM)
• OSAKIDETZA (BASQUE COUNTRY HEALTH SYSTEM)
• FUNDACIÓN ANDALUZA DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES (ANDALUSIAN FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES)
• SERVEI DE SALUT DE LES ILLES BALEARS (BALEARIC ISLANDS HEALTH SYSTEM)
• INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE LA MUJER (WOMEN CARE INSTITUTION)
• 016 MUJER (WOMEN EMERGENCIES PHONE)

Magdalena Baranowska has cooperated with Video Interpretations LLC on several interpretation projects. She has interpreted for several hospitals and Law Enforcement agencies in the USA, primarily in the state of Wisconsin, via our proprietary videoconferencing software. She is very dependable and conscientious interpreter. Her professionalism is impeccable. She has completed all of the tasks with utmost accuracy and precision. Magdalena has always completed the assigned interpretations in the indicated time and has met all the deadlines. She is a professional Polish/English, Spanish/English and Lithuanian/English translator and interpreter. I would recommend hiring Magdalena for any translation or interpretation project.

It is our pleasure to provide this reference on behalf of Miss MAGDALENA BARANOWSKA. Miss Baranowska has collaborated with this school as a translator from March 2010 to present. Miss Baranowska possesses special expertise in subjects such as legislation and technical documentation. She is very hard-working, qualified and motivated professional. The accuracy of her translations and the ability to work under deadline pressure deserve a special mentioning. I would also like to remark on her excellent relations with colleagues. I can without hesitation recommend Miss Baranowska for any translation job or any position that requires in-depth knowledge of Polish, Spanish and Lithuanian.

Rewelacyjna Pani tłumacz języka hiszpańskiego. Jedna z najlepszych, z jakimi miałem okazję współpracować. Doskonale radzi sobie w stresujących sytuacjach. Polecam.

Magdalena was selected for the position of Lecturer of Spanish in our department from a broad and deep pool of applicants. Her background as a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Salamanca (Spain) provided her with excellent training in Spanish language, literature, and culture, which she has successfully taught in our department. Indeed, to date, she has taught 200-level Spanish courses (Spanish 201 and 202) and key courses in grammar and composition (Spanish 301), and Spanish Conversation for Professionals (Spanish 303B). The latter is a difficult course to teach given that most faculty are not trained in this area and there is a lack of appropriate materials. Undaunted, Magdalena often created her own materials for the course, some of which were based on her professional experience as a translator. Other resources she adapted from online formats such as videos, audio segments, games, and other worthy and helpful pieces. Indeed, with respect to teaching at the 200-level, our curriculum utilizes several different multi-media and online formats integrated into the in-class and out-of-class experience. Magdalena is very adept with technology in teaching and quickly was able to not only learn but also master the different tools we were using. Overall, her abilities with computer-aided language learning are very high and she has even sought out additional training through the Center of Excellence in Learning and Teaching by attending relevant workshops. Magdalena came to Iowa State from Brown, a fine institution with a respected undergraduate program in Spanish. Before that, Magdalena was undertaking PHD research in Salamanca. However, Magdalena is eager to improve in all instances. As I am sure she will inform you, she has voluntarily observed others’ classes and invited senior professors into her classroom in an effort to constantly improve. As a whole, Magdalena is a confident, innovative, and dedicated instructor who cares deeply for her students and seeks excellence in their work. We are very pleased to have had the opportunity to work with her.

I am writing to recommend Magdalena Baranowska, a highly qualified Spanish language instructor who is currently a Visiting Teaching Associate (from Salamanca, Spain) in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. I have served as Magda’s supervisor in Intermediate Spanish II and observed one of her Spanish language classes. I am also supervising Magda in her work as a writing tutor for our introductory Spanish and Latin American literature courses this semester. I have worked closely with Magda throughout the current academic year and feel confident in my assessment of her strengths and abilities. Magda prepares her language classes carefully and readily communicates her enthusiasm for all aspects of Hispanic culture. She typically prepares a logical sequence of activities designed to promote and develop communication skills in Spanish while maintaining student interest and involvement. Never content to simply follow a text or a prescribed curriculum, Magda works to achieve a balance of grammar review, skills development, and class discussion. For the class that I observed, Magda prepared a power-point with several activities to guide her students’ discussion of the film Diarios de moto, scaffolding the exercises carefully in order to include vocabulary review, structured and less structured preterite/imperfect review, and finally more open-ended activities for which students were required to fill in information gaps and negotiate meaning. Students were lively and fully engaged throughout the 80-minute class period. Student evaluations of Magda’s classes give testimony to her talent and dedication, making allusions to her ability to establish a productive and comfortable classroom dynamic and provide all students with the support they need. For her work as a writing tutor and consultant, Magda has provided students with careful written guidelines and she has established a modus operandi that works smoothly and efficiently for over 40 students who meet with her regularly to review their essay drafts. She has been an invaluable asset for our advanced level Spanish students, helping them to structure and support their written arguments and to become aware of grammatical issues that impede their ability to communicate clearly. I know Magdalena Baranowska as a pleasant, hard-working, and responsible young woman who now understands and comfortably navigates the U.S. educational system. Magda will be an asset to any department or program fortunate enough to hire her, and I am pleased to offer my enthusiastic recommendation.

It is a true pleasure to write in support of Magdalena Baranowska’s application to your institution. I have the pleasure of supervising Magdalena as an instructor of Intermediate Spanish I at Brown University and I know her as an exceptionally strong teacher and colleague. She will be an outstanding teacher in your program and I therefore recommend her most highly. As an undergraduate, Magdalena was highly intelligent, mature beyond her years and enthusiastically dedicated to learning everything she could about the Spanish language and culture. She possessed a thirst for knowledge and a work ethic found in very few undergraduates. At no time was Magdalena ever satisfied with her growing Spanish proficiency or her impressively high grades. Magdalena always looks to improve and learn more! Magdalena’s Honors and GPA, multiple, successful academic experiences and her demonstrated excellence in Spanish (she received a scholarship of collaboration from Salamanca University) all attest to the fact that Magdalena was an exceptional undergraduate and is now an exceptional graduate student. However, Magdalena was not satisfied with her record. Magdalena chose to move to the U.S. and teach as a Teaching Associate. As a result of her hard work, high intelligence and life’s experience, Magdalena is truly multilingual and multicultural. I have taught communicative language pedagogy to Spanish teachers of the English language and bilingual programs in Spain. I currently collaborate with Brown’s Sheridan Center for Teaching Learning as a Teaching Consultant, and I am the Teaching Fellow course supervisor for HISP 300, the course Magdalena instructs. I know that Magdalena Baranowska possesses the intelligence, the maturity and the drive to be a highly successful educator. While participating in your program, she will be an exceptional role model and leader. She will serve as a model of the high quality of your program for others to see. For all these reasons, I most highly recommend Magdalena Baranowska for employment at your institution.

Magdalena Baranowska was a student of mine at the Master program in Translation and Intercultural Mediation in Professional Environments (The European Master’s in Translation) in the “Legal Translation: English” class carried out at the University of Salamanca between 2009 and 2011. She always showed a great deal of interest in the English language and its implications for translation. Her attitude to her work was always very positive and she contributed to helping to create a friendly and relaxed atmosphere so essential to language translation and strategy acquisition. From my experience of her both class and class social activity she mixes well and is a person very charming, kind and considerate. I have no hesitation whatsoever of recommending her for any work involving translation because she has always shown herself to be a very mature, capable and smart person.

Es un placer escribir para recomendar a Magdalena Baranowska, una excelente profesora de español e intérprete con quien tuve el placer de trabajar durante la primavera de 2013. Me parece que representa un equilibrio ejemplar entre la habilidad para la enseñanza y la perspicacia de la capacidad lingüística, que además complementa con su trabajo duro y su voluntad de ayudar a la comunidad. A continuación, permítame entrar en más detalles de porqué la recomiendo con entusiasmo. En el otoño de 2012, tuve la primera ocasión que para apreciar las habilidades de Magdalena, cuando llegó por primera vez a trabajar como docente asociada en el Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Brown, donde soy profesor visitante. Cuando la conocí me impresionó no sólo por su entusiasmo, sino también por sus múltiples habilidades lingüísticas, así como por sus competencias docentes. Nos demostró desde el inicio del año escolar que es una profesional admirable. Afortunadamente, durante el semestre de primavera de 2013 tuve la oportunidad de trabajar estrechamente con la señorita Baranowska, ya que el Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos le asignó auxiliar la escritura de los estudiantes de mi curso intensivo de literatura española. Este curso está diseñado como un mapa comprensivo de una amplia variedad de autores y grandes obras de la literatura peninsular española desde la Edad Media hasta el siglo 20. Magdalena se reunió con los estudiantes regularmente para ayudarles a mejorar sus habilidades de escritura académica, ya que tenían que entregar tres ensayos durante el semestre. Todos mis alumnos que buscaron su ayuda, no sólo terminaron muy contentos con los resultados, sino sobre todo ganaron mucha confianza en su trabajo, gracias a las habilidades que obtuvieron de Magdalena. Me parece que Magdalena Baranowska es un candidato ideal para cualquier departamento de español. Además, creo que aparte de una buena profesional, es una persona muy generosa con la comunidad a la que pertenece. Siempre es un placer compartir y debatir con ella, y siempre es la primera en preocuparse por el bienestar de los demás. No dude en ponerse en contacto conmigo directamente para cualquier comentario adicional que necesite a este respecto.

Excellent interpretation service, gives 100% of herself. I highly recommend Magda!

D^a. MAGDALENA BARANOWSKA ha realizado con aprovechamiento, durante el curso 2009/2010 las siguientes prácticas formativas de traducción/interpretación: Traducción español-polaco de tres documentos: “Información a víctimas de violencia doméstica y violencia de género”, “Acta de información de derechos al. perjudicado u ofendido” y “Diligencia de protección de datos”.