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I can never decide whether Swedish, Norwegian and Danish count as three languages or one
| | | | neilmac
Шпанија
Local time: 21:13
шпански на англиски
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Although I haven't done any French for ages and tend to pass any French work on to colleagues these days. One of my client companies has a branch or subsidiary in France and sometimes the texts they send me to translate from Spanish contain parts that are in French. The same thing goes for software strings, when the odd French phrase sometimes crops up in amongst the Spanish code.
Apart from that, I get the impression that the French language nowadays is quite different from what I learne... See more Although I haven't done any French for ages and tend to pass any French work on to colleagues these days. One of my client companies has a branch or subsidiary in France and sometimes the texts they send me to translate from Spanish contain parts that are in French. The same thing goes for software strings, when the odd French phrase sometimes crops up in amongst the Spanish code.
Apart from that, I get the impression that the French language nowadays is quite different from what I learned at school and university decades ago, so I prefer to leave it to the experts. ▲ Collapse
| | | | LilianNekipelov 
Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 15:13
руски на англиски
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| Usually two--the ones where I don't have to use any dictionaries--almost ever. | Aug 15, 2014 |
Polish to English and Russian to English (complex translation--legal texts, medical trial, literature). I translate literature and some more general texts form Swedish as well (not Danish or Norwegian because, after all, these are different languages, although I understand them to a large extent). I translate some things from Lithuanian--usually poetry, or general texts--not very complicated.
To translate something well takes a lot of time--if I had to check every tenth word in... See more Polish to English and Russian to English (complex translation--legal texts, medical trial, literature). I translate literature and some more general texts form Swedish as well (not Danish or Norwegian because, after all, these are different languages, although I understand them to a large extent). I translate some things from Lithuanian--usually poetry, or general texts--not very complicated.
To translate something well takes a lot of time--if I had to check every tenth word in a dictionary, I would probably turn to something else.
[Edited at 2014-08-15 08:52 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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Ty Kendall
Обединето Кралство
Local time: 20:13
еврејски на англиски
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and even if I wanted to do any more, I am just extremely busy that it would not work out.
| | | | LingoKat
Германија
Local time: 21:13
француски на германски
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French, English and Italian into German – in this order amount-wise.
When I first started nearly seven years ago I used to get a lot of work from Italian into German but that has shifted to French > German over the last couple of years, probably because I'm not willing to accept the rates which are often offered for Italian > German.
Hopefully I will be able to add Swedish to my working languages in the not too distant future and will probably give up Italian altogether then.
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Alice Cernic (X)
Германија
Local time: 21:13
словенечки на италијански
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As source languages I have English, German, Italian and Slovenian and as target languages Italian and Slovenian.
I reckon that makes 6 combinations.
| | | | Jon Hedemann
Данска
Local time: 21:13
англиски на дански
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| Sure this question is often misunderstood | Aug 15, 2014 |
I'm pretty sure many users will misunderstand this question, leading to an imprecise poll result.
As such, some users will - in error - use the following reasoning: "I translated from Dutch into English AND English into Dutch, hence I work in 2 language pairs."
This is wrong. A "language PAIR" already consists of 2 languages, hence the above example only involves ONE language PAIR.
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I definitely regard Danish, Swedish and Norwegian as different languages - Danish is my language of habitual usage, and the more I learn of the other two, the more differences I find, not to mention traps and false friends!
And I spend my time checking in dictionaries, monolingual, bilingual and thesauri ... and glossaries. I can't trust my memory for terminology, and need to be sure.
I only translate into English, just for the record.
[Edited at 2014-08-1... See more I definitely regard Danish, Swedish and Norwegian as different languages - Danish is my language of habitual usage, and the more I learn of the other two, the more differences I find, not to mention traps and false friends!
And I spend my time checking in dictionaries, monolingual, bilingual and thesauri ... and glossaries. I can't trust my memory for terminology, and need to be sure.
I only translate into English, just for the record.
[Edited at 2014-08-15 11:10 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Jon Hedemann
Данска
Local time: 21:13
англиски на дански
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Alice Cernic wrote:
As source languages I have English, German, Italian and Slovenian and as target languages Italian and Slovenian.
I reckon that makes 6 combinations.
Actually, it's only 5 language pairs:
English-Slovenian
Italian-Slovenian
German-Slovenian
English-Italian
German-Italian
[Edited at 2014-08-15 11:10 GMT]
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English-German and French-German
| | | | | Definition of language pair | Aug 15, 2014 |
Jon, I would disagree.
To me, Danish-English and English-Danish are two separate language pairs.
You do one; I do the other. Nobody can do both (properly) (IMO!).
| | | | Jon Hedemann
Данска
Local time: 21:13
англиски на дански
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Chris S wrote:
I can never decide whether Swedish, Norwegian and Danish count as three languages or one
DEFINITELY three languages!!! I'm sure most Danes would be genuinely insulted, if their language was equalled with Swedish - or Norwegian, for that matter!!!
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