Samantha Soon, PhD
Independent Linguist | Translation & Multilingual Language-Data Consultant

Services
I offer specialist linguistic, academic, translation, and language-data support for researchers, students, educators, publishers, nonprofits, and language-focused teams.
Phonetics & Phonology Consultation
Support for speech data, transcription, Praat workflows, acoustic analysis, tone, vowel length, stress, phonological interpretation, and write-up of sound-system analysis.
Multilingual Language Data & AI Evaluation
Support for multilingual text and speech data, annotation guidelines, translation adequacy, linguistic quality review, code-switching, language-specific error analysis, and AI output evaluation.
Translation, Editing & Localization QA
Chinese–English / English–Mandarin translation, editing, proofreading, localization review, and multilingual quality assurance for selected projects. My past work includes web fiction, religious publications, nonprofit communications, policy-adjacent materials, and cross-cultural content.
Linguistics & Language Research Support
Support for language-related research projects, including research design, literature review planning, data organization, transcription workflows, annotation planning, qualitative linguistic analysis, language documentation materials, and presentation of findings. I can help students, researchers, educators, and community or nonprofit projects make language data clearer, better organized, and more usable.
Teaching & Workshops
Available for selected tutoring, short courses, and workshops in phonetics, phonology, academic writing, Praat, language documentation, multilingualism, translation, and linguistics research skills.
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Contact
For a summary of my services, experience, languages, and selected work, download my professional profile.
To discuss a project, contact me at szemin.samantha@gmail.com