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Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language? | Hindi

Pundora — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:24:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?
Poster: Pundora
Post title: Hindi

I live in New Delhi and Hindi is my native language. I translate from English into Hindi. An overwhelming majority of people speak or understand Hindi in India.

Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language? | Neither

Özden Arıkan — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:54:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?
Poster: Özden Arıkan
Post title: Neither

I translate from English to Turkish and live in Germany, where... they speak German :D

Not a favorable situation for a translator, but I hope to reverse it making German a second source language, not in the short run, though, but not in a so distant future, either. Or, so do I hope!

Deborah, I see no such assumption in the wording - although I know it is much likelier that I am the wrong one here. The poll question reads:
[quote]Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?[/quote]

Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language? | Wording ......

Deborah do Carmo (X) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:19:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?
Poster: Deborah do Carmo (X)
Post title: Wording ......

Wording of the poll does strictly assume you have only one source (or, dare I say it) target language.

Should perhaps read:
Do you live in a country where the native language is (one of) your source or target language(s)?

Anyhow my source languages are Dutch, Afrikaans and Portuguese. Target language is UK English and I live in Portugal (granted it's the Algarve where English is widely spoken).

D

[Edited at 2006-08-29 17:23]

Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language? | Target

Sophia Hundt (X) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:47:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?
Poster: Sophia Hundt (X)
Post title: Target

English is the target language, and I live in United States.

Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language? | Right

Enrique Cavalitto — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:32:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?
Poster: Enrique Cavalitto
Post title: Right

[quote]Russell Gillis wrote:

This poll was asked before, if you want to compare results:

[url removed]

:)

Russell [/quote]

There was a poll on similar lines a little over three months ago, but I believe this one is more clear than the old one.

Regards,
Enrique

Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language? | Hard to say...

Kirill Semenov — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:17:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?
Poster: Kirill Semenov
Post title: Hard to say...

My working pair is English > Russian, and I live in Ukraine. The official language here is Ukrainian, but everyone speaks Russian, for many people here (even Ukrainians) it's their mother tongue, and a lot of people - including me - are also ethnical Russians. I just don't know which option to select. Not "both", but not exactly "target", either. And "neither" doesn't seem right to me.

Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language? | Repeat poll

Russell Gillis — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:28:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?
Poster: Russell Gillis
Post title: Repeat poll

This poll was asked before, if you want to compare results:

[url removed]

:)

Russell

Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?

ProZ.com Staff — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:07:38 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?".

This poll was originally submitted by Chinese Concept

View the poll here

A forum topic will appear each time a new poll is run. For more information, see: [url removed]