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To: livius
I’m a translator, and I do things like this all the time.

Well ... you've definitely piqued my interest. Speaking 2 foreign languages, this a career path I neerly pursued. What do you translate, if you don't mind my asking, and for whom?

6 posted on 07/08/2007 4:27:22 PM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer

I translate Spanish, Portuguese and Italian> English.

I work for agencies and I specialize in legal translation, ranging from pleadings to testimony. I do mostly civil cases involving corporations, and my work comes primarily from Spain and a couple of Latin American countries, although I also get stuff from Brazil and Portugal and Portuguese-speaking African countries. I actually try to avoid Italian, because I don’t have time to follow the Italian press and stay current on things there. I charge more for Italian, hoping not to get jobs in it...

I’m not an intepreter, because in the US, Spanish and PT intepreters do mostly criminal cases, particularly drugs, and my lexicon doesn’t include that!


9 posted on 07/08/2007 8:23:36 PM PDT by livius
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