I'm Henriette, the person behind One Cozy Translator, though you'll usually see me as Henrietta when working internationally.
It's a lot easier for people outside Denmark to pronounce, and at some point it just became the name I do business under.
I love to write. I hope you love to read! Here's the fuller story, if you're curious.
My origin story
After finishing my master's degree in language and communication, I did what you're supposed to do: applied for jobs. Communications roles, mostly. I didn't get many callbacks, and the market for someone with my specific background was smaller than I expected.
Around the same time, I became a parent, and the math of a traditional 9-to-5 stopped adding up for me in a way it might not for everyone. I didn't want to see my kids for a few hours a day around a job I hadn't even managed to land yet. So I looked at freelancing, not as a fallback, but as an actual option nobody had mentioned to me out loud before.
Six years later, I've built a business around English-Danish localization and, more recently, AI proofreading: helping language professionals and businesses get work that actually holds up, in a market where a lot of people are cutting corners with automation.
Why "One Cozy Translator"
The name comes from the Danish word hygge. Which can be difficult to localize to other languages, but basically it means to feel content, and it usually involves coziness, comfort, and things done well and unhurried.
It's a small nod to where I come from, where I work from, and how I think work should feel, even when the subject matter (AI disruption, market pressure, client red flags) isn't always cozy at all.
What I believe
A lot of the AI conversation in the language industry treats native expertise like a skill gap: something AI is closing, one update at a time.
I don't see it that way.
Cultural fluency, tone, nuance, the judgment call on what a sentence actually needs to say in another language: that's not a skill AI is catching up on.
It's a different category of work entirely. One I believe only a real person can master.
Hi, this is me. ⬆️ Anno 2019-ish. I have spent years traveling around the world "B.C." (before children, lol). I lived in Australia for a while, and I've always loved meeting people with different cultural backgrounds from mine. Yes, the picture on the front page is also me (from my blond days!). My love for language, culture and history has been a part of me since I was a child, and every moment I get to work with this is a dream come true. 🩷
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