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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4925 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 9 of 10 21 December 2011 at 8:17pm | IP Logged |
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TixhiiDon,
If your profile is accurate, you are (or were) living in Japan. There's the rub. You're using one of your daily living, working languages. Other than that, I agree with you on what to expect regarding translator2's experience. Occasionally I'll work long hours, but by and large I have set hours and rates. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5176 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 10 of 10 21 December 2011 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
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Without any negative intention, I think your question is similar to the following:
I want to go to the Olympics and I wonder what sport to pick. I already play baseball but I don't really like practicing it, and I'd like to play hockey but no one around here plays so I wouldn't be able to make a team. What sport should I pick? Your biggest hurdle in becoming an translator is that you're going to need EXCELLENT language skills, way beyong the level most language learners ever reach (and that's IF you actually meant translator rather than interpreter). I'm not telling you you can't do it, just that you cannot start considering a job in translation until AFTER you've reached that level. Which likely wouldn't be for several years. 9 persons have voted this message useful |
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