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Poll: How many language pairs do you work in? Лице кое објавува дискусија: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How many language pairs do you work in?".
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Mary Worby 
Обединето Кралство
Local time: 12:09
Член
германски на англиски
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Two, but the vast majority of my work is in one combination.
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ozgurtackin
Канада
Local time: 07:09
англиски на турски
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3 pairs in EN-FR-TR, all pairs included; sometimes also called "a six pack" J
as my colleagues say, depends on how you look at it.
but clients usually prefer -for obvious reasons- the one(s) you're native in.
They do not know what they're missing J
[Edited at 2014-03-17 11:34 GMT]
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| Either 1 or 3 | Mar 17, 2014 |
depending on how you look at it
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DianeGM
Local time: 14:09
холандски на англиски
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From 2 source languages into my 2 native languages, but on average 70% of my total work is in one language combination.
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English, French, Italian and Spanish to my native language: European Portuguese, but the vast majority of my work is in one combination (EN-PT).
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Charlotte Farrell
Обединето Кралство
Local time: 12:09
Член (2013)
германски на англиски
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But 80% of my work is in one and more than 19% is in another, so I really only work in two combinations with occasional work in the third.
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| I call it three | Mar 17, 2014 |
Chris S wrote:
depending on how you look at it
Like Chris S I work in three language pairs, but some clients regard them all as one...
After a week of Norwegian I am really enjoying getting back to Danish!
[Edited at 2014-03-17 17:16 GMT]
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macimovic
Холандија
Local time: 13:09
англиски на српски
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Two: Spanish to Serbian and English to Serbian.
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Tim Drayton (X)
Кипар
Local time: 14:09
турски на англиски
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For quite a few years I had the luxury of specialising in a single language pair, and mostly working in one technical field in that pair (legal translation from Turkish to English), but demand seems to have collapsed for that sort of work and I have been trying to resurrect my second language pair for the past couple of years.
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| 2 pairs = one pair in both directions | Mar 17, 2014 |
80% of my work is EN > PT-BR; the remaining 20% PT > EN-US.
A recent client has got me into a "new" pair: Franglish (aka Franglais) into PT-BR.
Though source is stated as English, I must work EN > FR > PT.
FR is my L5, and I don't translate it.
However if I skip the FR step, it becomes meaningless.
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I go only one way, darlings - Japanese to English.
Though I am hoping one day that the Osaka dialect will be officially recognized as a completely different language - people up in Tokyo have difficulty understanding what we say here in my neck of the woods. 
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Elizabeth Tamblin (X)
Обединето Кралство
Local time: 12:09
француски на англиски
French to English (my native language).
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neilmac
Шпанија
Local time: 13:09
шпански на англиски
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But it's really just one nowadays. I only did one French translation last year (or 2012, not sure) and that was a collaboration with a bilingual French colleague.
However, the other day one client sent me a Spanish documento to translate that included about half a dozen phrases in Portuguese (not one of my languages) which I went ahead and translated anyway, using Google translate and my prior knowledge of the context/content and the similarity between these Iberian cousins. So sue ... See more But it's really just one nowadays. I only did one French translation last year (or 2012, not sure) and that was a collaboration with a bilingual French colleague.
However, the other day one client sent me a Spanish documento to translate that included about half a dozen phrases in Portuguese (not one of my languages) which I went ahead and translated anyway, using Google translate and my prior knowledge of the context/content and the similarity between these Iberian cousins. So sue me... ▲ Collapse
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Amaury Laine (X)
Франција
Local time: 13:09
англиски на француски
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I always translate from English and German into French. Maybe I'll add another source language one day
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