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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 20:35
Lid 2007
Engels naar Portugees
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Other Jun 16, 2024

Computing skills...

writeaway
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
neilmac
Iulia Parvu
P.L.F. Persio
svetlana cosquéric
Florence Risser
 
Iulia Parvu
Iulia Parvu  Identity Verified
Roemenië
Local time: 22:35
Lid 2022
Engels naar Roemeens
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Other Jun 16, 2024

I get easily distracted by what's going on around me or inside my head, especially when I encounter a difficult phrase that requires a lot of concentration. I constantly need breaks.

Asama Madani
Anette Hilgendag
Baran Keki
Kay Denney
Imane Agnaou
Antonio Contreras
tabor
 
Rachel Waddington
Rachel Waddington  Identity Verified
Verenigd Koninkrijk
Local time: 20:35
Nederlands naar Engels
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I'm not a language specialist Jun 16, 2024

I'm a translator

Jennifer Levey
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
IrinaN
Enrique Bjarne Strand Ferrer
Anette Hilgendag
neilmac
Dan Lucas
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Duitsland
Local time: 21:35
Engels naar Duits
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Other Jun 17, 2024

My complete lack of patience and tolerance for technologies the industry is blindly deploying in order to replace human translators or at the very least to devalue their role to mere post-editors of machine output (also called "dehumanization").

Chris Says Bye
Iulia Parvu
Annette Fehr
Kay Denney
Maja_K
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Patti Maselli
 
Chris Says Bye
Chris Says Bye
Pricing Jun 17, 2024

I don’t think I charge my customers enough for what they’re getting.

Marketing would come a close second. I just don’t do any.

Iulia Parvu
P.L.F. Persio
Rachel Waddington
Kay Denney
Michael Harris
Peter Shortall
Federica Scaccabarozzi
 
Baran Keki
Baran Keki  Identity Verified
Turkije
Local time: 23:35
Lid
Engels naar Turks
Other Jun 17, 2024

Boredom.

Iulia Parvu
Chris Says Bye
Gerard Barry
Bryce Benavides
 
Dan Lucas
Dan Lucas  Identity Verified
Verenigd Koninkrijk
Local time: 20:35
Lid 2014
Japans naar Engels
Boyish good looks.... Jun 17, 2024

...that distract from my brilliance as a translator.

Chris

Chris Says Bye
P.L.F. Persio
Becca Resnik
Liena Vijupe
Gerard Barry
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
Frankrijk
Local time: 21:35
Frans naar Engels
. Jun 17, 2024

I answered "other" because I really regret only having one source language. I speak three other languages, but nowhere near well enough to translate from them, so I'd need to work pretty hard to get any one of them up to scratch. This was the sticking point that meant I could never apply to any international institutions. I would have loved to work for Unesco.

Iulia Parvu
Gerard Barry
Stephanie Mitchel
 


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