George Kefalas

George Kefalas

Interpreter
Phone:416-391-2286
Address:Toronto

PROFILE

My life has been an Odyssey of sorts. I have lived and worked in three countries, in three  continents . I was born in Patras , Greece and have lived  three quarters of my life in Greece .The rest of the time was spent in Montreal, Hamilton and Toronto Canada,  as well  as Sydney, Australia . I studied English and German Literature at McMaster University  and graduated Summa Cum Laude  in  1977. While still an undergraduate I was picked to teach Beginners’ Intensive German for a year and a half, the only one of my class to do so .From 1977 to 2013 , with a couple of minor “breaks”, I taught English and German at TEI Patras and my own language school. In between I taught ESL for the Hamilton Board of Education for a semester in 1986 , as well as EFL for the NSW Education Authority in Sydney in 1987 .For the last couple of years I have been working as a freelance  interpreter in the GTA . I had always been fond of my job as an educator but my recent involvement with interpreting has been so gratifying and rewarding  that I have grown to love it just as much; the feeling of being able to help people in their hour of need is , for me , incomparable to anything else I have done in my life.