It was 1991 when I had to decide what languages I would study to become a fully-fledged translator. The school I was to attend only had four languages to offer: English, French, German, and Spanish. Every student was to pick…
Born before the Internet boom, I had always imagined myself translating at a desk with a typewriter and lots of dictionaries and books... Looking back now I can say that my dreams have come true, but in a quite different…
Konstantina's note: Taking a break from the series So, graduation! A Tranlator? And then, what?, here is Jeff Peters with his article on benefits of learning a new foreign language! Enjoy! Language holds a major role on the operations of…
At school, I enjoyed and was good at the 2 languages that I had the chance to study: French and Latin. But the same could be said for most of my other subjects. Not being sure what I wanted to…