Elizabeth Best, CT, is a professional translator and interpreter with more than 15 years of experience, specializing in English, Portuguese and Spanish. She was born in the United States and currently lives near Charleston, South Carolina.

Elizabeth is certified by the ATA to translate Portuguese into English. Her clients include numerous agencies, such as Lingo24, Diplomatic Language Services, Language Intelligence, Paragon Language Services, Keylingo, Alfonso Interpreting, Technovate, Global Trans Services, H.I.T. Services, and Lionbridge.

Elizabeth’s translation and transcreation projects have included business and educational reports, proposals, promotional letters, legal documents and licenses, IT product marketing and content, market and health surveys, magazine articles, research papers, manuals and business correspondence.

Her end clients have included several South American governments, a global oil company, world-class pharmaceutical companies (US & UK), a top Brazilian financial magazine, a Fortune 500 consumer products company, an international business communications firm, a Brazilian hospital equipment provider, a top US regulatory agency, several military commands, international market research firms, colleges, and a Brazilian environmental firm working with indigenous peoples.

Elizabeth Best’s fluency in Portuguese has been honed over many years of living abroad, including ten years working as an interpreter and translator in Brazil, and extended periods of living in other Central and South American countries.

She is experienced in both simultaneous and consecutive interpreting (Portuguese<>English), including for conferences, depositions, small groups, liaison interpreting. Her clients in the Charleston, South Carolina area include corporations, attorneys, health care providers and social service agencies.