François VIDIT
guide-interpreter of Paris
François, as given name, is pronounced: [fʁɑ̃.swɑ]
VIDIT, here family name, is pronounced: [vidi]
François VIDIT is Japanese guide-interpreter in Paris. For more than years, he is receiving work under various forms, from touristical guiding, intercultural councelling, consecutive interpretation, to translation.
A Parisian that has connected in Tōkiō
Like his parents, he is Parisian.
He has discovered Japanese culture with the go game (opens in a new tab) and he started to learn its language as an autodidact, at the age of seventeen.
After his degree at the National Architecture School of Paris-La Villette (opens in a new tab), he left for Japan.
He joined a company of conception and realisation of commercial networks for luxury brands in the largest Japanese cities in the prestigious area of Aoyama (opens in a new tab) in Tōkiō.
On return to France, he changed profession and became a guide-interpreter.
On the “Tōkiō” spelling
This spelling is rare, but it is the regular French transcription; it dates from the end of the nineteenth century; it is still in official use, for instance in certain formal documents meant to convey solemnity; unlike the current English transcription, it faithfully reflects the original pronunciation, marking its nuances through accentuation. English transcription: Tokyo.
To guide, it's to share!
It's to confront different faces, experience the solemn character of encounter, to find oneself out of habits, and thereby feel in oneself a new humanity coming forward, intimately and mysteriously.
From there, to be lucky to find oneself ceaselessly rid of a number of prejudices, ceaselessly more universal to the encounter of humanity and world.
Professional cursus
Obtention of the Certificate of Japanese-Language Proficiency Test Level 3 (opens in a new tab) of the Association of International Education, Japan
Admitted to the 8th Business Japanese Proficiency Test (opens in a new tab) JLRT JETRO
Obtention of the title of Guide-Conférencier (opens in a new tab) at the Toulouse-Jean Jaurès University (opens in a new tab)
Practical information
- professional registration number
GC1375538P- affiliation
- AGIJ (opens in a new tab)
- other spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- guiding area
- France (opens in a new tab), Bruges (opens in a new tab) (Belgium)
- address
- 10, rue Théophraste Renaudot 75015 Paris
- contact
- See the contact form