Poll: How many language pairs do you work in? Лице кое објавува дискусија: ProZ.com Staff
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I upset some people last time this question was asked by suggesting that Swedish, Norwegian and Danish into English was one pair, so I've upped it to one and a half.
And that's quite enough for me. I don't know how all these "to/from eight languages" people do it. Badly, one assumes. But even so, it'd give me a headache trying to switch between so many.
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My language pair J>E is enough to handle.
On the Japanese language, Wikipedia says:
"Japanese is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent."
If you think that's a delicious mouthful, then you should try Japanese. 
Most of the 'seasoned' translators over ... See more My language pair J>E is enough to handle.
On the Japanese language, Wikipedia says:
"Japanese is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent."
If you think that's a delicious mouthful, then you should try Japanese.
Most of the 'seasoned' translators over here seem to concur on one thing - the more Japanese you learn, the less you seem to know. Very Zen and very inscrutable my L2 is. 
[Edited at 2015-06-23 08:15 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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The vast majority of my work is in EN-NL, but I do enjoy the PT-NL jobs coming my way now and then.
[Edited at 2015-06-22 08:42 GMT]
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Local time: 04:19
шпански на англиски
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As Bernard Shaw said, those who speak many languages seldom have anything to say in any of them.
From a purely business point of view it seems to me that provided there is work it is much more efficient to build up expertise in one language than have a dispersed and lesser knowledge of many.
I am always highly suspicious of people who boast a string of languages. Having been a partner in a multi-language legal translation firm with over 50 lawyers I have only ever known... See more As Bernard Shaw said, those who speak many languages seldom have anything to say in any of them.
From a purely business point of view it seems to me that provided there is work it is much more efficient to build up expertise in one language than have a dispersed and lesser knowledge of many.
I am always highly suspicious of people who boast a string of languages. Having been a partner in a multi-language legal translation firm with over 50 lawyers I have only ever known 1 who could reliably translate one language pair in both directions. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | I wavered between one and three | Jun 22, 2015 |
Most of the time one - Danish to English.
Precisely because Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are closely related, I CAN work in all three to some extent. My knowledge of Swedish and Norwegian is not nearly as extensive as Danish, so I only do a small number of non-specialist jobs from those languages.
I have translated a very little French to English for a friend, and in theory I can translate from German to English, but it is so long since I actually did so that it is not... See more Most of the time one - Danish to English.
Precisely because Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are closely related, I CAN work in all three to some extent. My knowledge of Swedish and Norwegian is not nearly as extensive as Danish, so I only do a small number of non-specialist jobs from those languages.
I have translated a very little French to English for a friend, and in theory I can translate from German to English, but it is so long since I actually did so that it is not one of my active languages any more.
I have to work hard enough keeping my two main languages up to standard, so that is enough for me! ▲ Collapse
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From French into (British) English and in a number of fields which function independently but where the mix of field knowledge and academic qualification can and does overlap, suddenly making me a specialist. I suppose that's the case for many translators.
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Natalie Soper 
Обединето Кралство
Local time: 04:19
француски на англиски
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French and Spanish into English. Really original!
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Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 21:19
шпански на англиски
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I primarily work in Spanish > English and my wife, Gaby, does English > Spanish.
I have been actively learning the Dragon Tongue from the Elder Scrolls series
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German and French into English. My original mother tongue was German as I was German-born, but grew up/was educated in Canada, hence English "native". Being Canadian, the French was a logical "other" second language. Only into English because well, that's the native language of main environment, education etc.
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English to Hindi (the bulk of it) and Hindi to English (occasionally). These two account for 99% of my work. On very rare occasions (once or twice in several years), I also translate from Malayalam and Gujarati into Hindi and English. These occasions are so rare that I have not counted them here.
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Sheila Wilson
Шпанија
Local time: 04:19
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англиски
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| One and a half | Jun 23, 2015 |
I'm never very happy referring to EN>EN as a pair, although in my own case it's often American to British English or non-native to more natural English. So maybe it's close to two.
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