| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Poll: Have you learned any new languages since you started working as translator? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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I love languages! Before getting my translation degree, I began learning Italian, French and German. Last year, I decided to go on with the Italian course.
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| | | | Amy Duncan (X) 
Brazil
Local time: 17:05
Portuguese to English
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| Yes, I guess... | Mar 5, 2009 |
I studied Japanese for four years and was able to speak some and read children's books...I even went to Japan and tried out my skills on the natives. However, I hate to confess that I've forgotten most of it, although I know if I picked up the study again it would come back.
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Not yet, unfortunately, but I would like to learn Dutch......and Russian, and Chinese, and surely many more.
Who knows....
But I think I will pick up the study of Esperanto again (I studied it two yeras at school!)
Has anybody else out there studied Esperanto or am I the only one (together with my classmates!)?
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I'm starting my first level of Italian this Saturday!!...I'm so excited
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Louise Souter (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:05
Spanish to English
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I am currently trying to learn Portugese.
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But, gosh! I've improved a lot my source language comprehension, and enriched enormously my mother tongue... (Proz.com community has helped a great deal, and I've had a great time.)
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My story is much like Amy's except that I only studied Japanese for two years. I was able to get around a little when I visited the country, but it didn't stick because I didn't stick with it. As a free lance, my life is too hectic to take the time to study a new language.
Amy Duncan wrote:
I studied Japanese for four years and was able to speak some and read children's books...I even went to Japan and tried out my skills on the natives. However, I hate to confess that I've forgotten most of it, although I know if I picked up the study again it would come back.
| | | | Jussi Rosti
Finland
Local time: 23:05
Member (2005)
English to Finnish
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| Started Portuguese and Thai | Mar 6, 2009 |
So far, some progress have happened only in Portuguese. Thai is so different from other languages I know that the effort needed to reach even a helping fluency is huge - much bigger than I have resources for, currently.
So, I'm concentrating now on Portuguese and hope to tackle Thai later (maybe by living in Thailand for a while).
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Seamus Moran
Ireland
Local time: 21:05
German to English
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Yes, I've started learning Spanish.
| | | | Williamson
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:05
Flemish to English
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"Da, tsjut, tsjut russki jazik" by living together with a Ukranian I can understand a basic conversation and read a Russian capital letters.
Italian and Portuguese are so apparented to Spanish that I can read and understand those languages, but:
let's face it : if you want to maximize your time and profits with the languages your know, you translate to and from those languages and thus learn the maximum you can. You have to read in those languages, watch satellite-tv in those languag... See more "Da, tsjut, tsjut russki jazik" by living together with a Ukranian I can understand a basic conversation and read a Russian capital letters.
Italian and Portuguese are so apparented to Spanish that I can read and understand those languages, but:
let's face it : if you want to maximize your time and profits with the languages your know, you translate to and from those languages and thus learn the maximum you can. You have to read in those languages, watch satellite-tv in those languages, ...
To really learn another language, you should be able to afford a sabbitical year to go and live and study in the country of the language you are learning.
In the past 25 years, I did not have time to study another language in depth. ▲ Collapse
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Actually, since I started working, free time is so little, as I do two jobs (translating and teaching), that my choice is evident: go out and see people. Meet friends and family and spend as little time as possible on my own when I'm not working.
I'm not exactly proud of this choice: it means, among others, that reading as a hobby has to go in "hibernation" and wait for the summer, when it is easier to read on the beach for a couple of hours every day (I live on a famous Greek isla... See more Actually, since I started working, free time is so little, as I do two jobs (translating and teaching), that my choice is evident: go out and see people. Meet friends and family and spend as little time as possible on my own when I'm not working.
I'm not exactly proud of this choice: it means, among others, that reading as a hobby has to go in "hibernation" and wait for the summer, when it is easier to read on the beach for a couple of hours every day (I live on a famous Greek island, so I don't have to go on holidays to enjoy sea and sun). Learning foreign languages just doesn't seem to fit in.
...but, as of September, I have decided to give up my job as a teacher, and keep only my (full-time) translation freelancing occupation. So, my first plan is to improve my German. And to learn some Spanish. I keep my fingers crossed that my plans will work out... ▲ Collapse
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 22:05
Member (2006)
German to English
learning Hungarian, have a bit of Welsh and Afrikaans, but all for fun and culture
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