About Delingua Language Service

Delingua is a youthful, modern language services agency. Our quality services include both translation and interpreting services as well as language courses. Professional translators, interpreters and foreign language teachers with many years of experience in the field form the basis of our international operations.

Both the business idea and working method behind Delingua reflect the founder’s own outlook on life, her many years of solid experience and her cultural understanding combined with her academic achievements. The founder of Delingua Language Service is conference interpreter, foreign language teacher and authorised translator Katja Virtanen (MA).

Katja Virtanen graduated in 1997 from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, where she majored in German and Spanish linguistics and culture and Didactics. Later, she studied translation at the University of Mainz (Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies) in Germany and interpreting at the University of Turku in Finland, where she completed a European postgraduate course in conference interpreting (European Masters in Conference Interpreting) in 1999. Furthermore, she has studied Persian (Farsi) in Iran; English in Great Britain; French in Belgium and Estonian in Tallinn.

Katja Virtanen has spent 17 years abroad, studying and working in Germany, Austria, Spain and Belgium. Before establishing Delingua Language Service in 2005, her positions included Teacher and Head of Studies in a language school in Madrid. Katja Virtanen has been translating almost throughout  her entire career. Over the years, she has translated countless texts from German, Spanish and English into Finnish and gained experience in her fields of expertise; business, legal and EU matters. Ms Virtanen is an authorised translator (Finland) in the language combinations German-Finnish and Spanish-Finnish.