Pursuing the Translation Dream: Promoter of the Profession

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Sanjin Grandić
Sanjin Grandić  Identity Verified
Croatia
Local time: 06:28
Member (2020)
French to Croatian
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I love interpreting Sep 11, 2020

Always preferred direct contact with clients, especially the French bnecause I grew up in France....besides, what s there not to kike at 35€ per hour FrenchCroatian...I started as a tourist guide then war interpreter and aftedwards mostly jn Finances.

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Maxi Schwarz
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Local time: 00:28
German to English
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dunno Sep 12, 2020

I'm not pursuing a dream - I translate, in a rather real way. The idea of promoting the profession as being part of it, I don't know how this advice made me feel. In regard to what the article said, well when I tell anyone what I do, there are not those kinds of misperceptions. Ottawa being largely a government town, the country's capital, officially bilingual - if you say you're a translator, the other person has a mother, father, aunt, uncle, friend, who is a translator or they say "me too... See more
I'm not pursuing a dream - I translate, in a rather real way. The idea of promoting the profession as being part of it, I don't know how this advice made me feel. In regard to what the article said, well when I tell anyone what I do, there are not those kinds of misperceptions. Ottawa being largely a government town, the country's capital, officially bilingual - if you say you're a translator, the other person has a mother, father, aunt, uncle, friend, who is a translator or they say "me too". Nobody has ever asked if I work in a hospital (?) but they will ask, "Do you translate for the government?"Collapse


 


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