Poll: How old were you when you did your first translation?
Alexandra Speirs Italy Local time: 23:48 Member (2009) Italian to English + ...
me too
Nov 28, 2009
Tim Drayton wrote:
Similarly assuming that we are not talking about professional translation, then I studied foreign languages at a Scottish high school in the 1970's, a time when the teaching of languages there revolved very much around translation, and examinations consisted mainly of translations.
Same here, I did French and Italian at school in Scotland and that involved lots of translations. Then more translations at university...
I didn't actually get paid for any until I was in Italy, teaching English to the locals, when the language school gave me a few letters to translate.
So I would have been about 24 at the time.
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Gudrun Wolfrath Germany Local time: 23:48 Partial member (2009) English to German + ...
Professionally - age 22
Nov 29, 2009
when I started working as a salaried translator.
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