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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 15:03
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Other Jun 16, 2024

Computing skills...

writeaway
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
neilmac
Iulia Parvu
P.L.F. Persi (X)
svetlana cosqueric
Florence Risser
 
Iulia Parvu
Iulia Parvu  Identity Verified
Romania
Local time: 17:03
Member (2022)
English to Romanian
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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
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:03
Dutch to English
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I'm not a language specialist Jun 16, 2024

I'm a translator

Jennifer Levey
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
IrinaN (X)
Enrique Bjarne Strand Ferrer
Anette Hilgendag
neilmac
Dan Lucas
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 16:03
English to German
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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").

The Shredder
Iulia Parvu
Annette Fehr
Kay Denney
Maja_K
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Patti Maselli
 
The Shredder
The Shredder
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. Persi (X)
Rachel Waddington
Kay Denney
Michael Harris
Peter Shortall
Federica Scaccabarozzi
 
Baran Keki
Baran Keki  Identity Verified
Türkiye
Local time: 18:03
Member
English to Turkish
Other Jun 17, 2024

Boredom.

Iulia Parvu
The Shredder
Gerard Barry
Bryce Benavides
 
Dan Lucas
Dan Lucas  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:03
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Boyish good looks.... Jun 17, 2024

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

Chris

The Shredder
P.L.F. Persi (X)
Becca Resnik
Liena V.
Gerard Barry
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 16:03
French to English
. 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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