John Johnson

Spoken and written languages

I am a native speaker of English, but my work and personal life are conducted entirely in Italian, in which I am completely fluent. As an editor I am responsible for the publication of texts in Italian for one of the most prestigious educational publishers in Italy.

  • English - native speaker
  • Italian - complete fluency
  • French - excellent written comprehension

Translation and teaching

Previous to working for Zanichelli my work experience generally involved either translations into English or teaching. I am also a qualified English teacher.

  • English teaching: TESOL-qualified language teacher.
  • University teaching: courses at the universities of Oxford and Warwick as a lecturer in English and Italian literature
  • Translations: I have published a number of translations into English for an assortment of purposes and contexts.

Other languages

My work requires a detailed knowledge of the grammar and morphology of a wide range of languages, both European, Semitic and Asiatic. Besides the basic ordering principles of of these languages I also deal with the encoding, searchability and rendering of these languages in print and digital.

  • Arabic
  • Czech
  • Chinese (Mandarin and pinyin)
  • Croat
  • English
  • German
  • Modern Hebrew
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Georgian
  • Modern Greek
  • Japanese (kanji, romaji, etc.)
  • Korean
  • Latin
  • Dutch
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Ukrainian