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Sounding boards? (literature.cafe)

submitted 2 weeks ago by MarieMarion@literature.cafe to c/translators@lemmy.ca

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I was happy to find this community, and I realised I really could do with having fellow pro translators to chat with. Commiserate and bitch, sure, but also help out, take wild guesses about a weird turn of phrase, find the niche cultural reference from that Turkish TV show nobody knows outside of Turkey, and so on.
Who else? And hi!

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[–] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago

English to French. I actually spoke German quite well back then (and loved the language), and found English very meh, but I really wanted to study lit translation and at the time the only graduat program was in an English department... I switched tack, and nowI haven't used German in 25 years.