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Poll: Are there other translators or language professionals in your family? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Are there other translators or language professionals in your family?".
This poll was originally submitted by Michal Panner
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| 2 and a great help | Dec 29, 2009 |
My cousin works as a translator, in the same field as me, but with different languages, and we usually help each other when the same text is available in German and English (our source languages). another cousin of mine works as a teacher and translator.
The thing is, in my opinion, we all come from a large family of people, who love travelling, and we have grown up in a "ready to move" environment. Most of us have lived at least in 3 foreign countries, and our love for languages and diffe... See more My cousin works as a translator, in the same field as me, but with different languages, and we usually help each other when the same text is available in German and English (our source languages). another cousin of mine works as a teacher and translator.
The thing is, in my opinion, we all come from a large family of people, who love travelling, and we have grown up in a "ready to move" environment. Most of us have lived at least in 3 foreign countries, and our love for languages and different cultures is the basis for our current jobs.
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| My wife is an ESL teacher | Dec 29, 2009 |
I guess this makes her part of the translator "manufacturing" community.
Nevertheless, we draw the line very clearly at home: I don't teach; while she doesn't translate. We are completely aware that each job requires different skills, and a different stance too.
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Parrot 
Spain
Local time: 20:43
Spanish to English
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| Not any more | Dec 29, 2009 |
... but mum was a lexicographer and an aunt (both deceased now) helped write a dictionary. Like Gianluca, travel and languages seem to run in certain members of my family. It's no longer possible to see them without literally flying around the world -- though I still have to see someone becoming a translator.
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Chun Un
Macau
Member (2007)
English to Chinese
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My parents taught English and an uncle who used to work as a simultaneous interpreter at the Unesco in Paris still teaches French.
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Latin_Hellas (X)
United States
Local time: 20:43
Italian to English
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| Other purposes | Dec 29, 2009 |
On an inter-generational view, better would be to use language skills for other, more productive businesses than the business of language itself.
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L.G.F. (X)
Spain
English to Spanish
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I have never had the help from my family with my studies or work, none of them can speak any other foreign language but Spanish!
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One of my daughters is also a translator (specialized in biotechnology) and she has worked for me from time to time. The other two (a lawyer and an architect) have been of great help on several occasions...
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Amy Duncan (X)
Brazil
Local time: 15:43
Portuguese to English
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My sister teaches French.
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my sister is a teacher but language professionals, no. I'm the anomaly!
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| Family environment and THE urge | Dec 29, 2009 |
My father taught history and society (not directly related to translations/languages, but still...),
my mother taught French,
two of my aunties taught Ukrainian,
my sister taught Russian,
my niece studied and taught English,
my cousin studied English
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my children study more languages
etc. ...
So it comes as no surprise that I have had no choice but:
to study both those four languages (+ some other) AND translation... See more My father taught history and society (not directly related to translations/languages, but still...),
my mother taught French,
two of my aunties taught Ukrainian,
my sister taught Russian,
my niece studied and taught English,
my cousin studied English
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my children study more languages
etc. ...
So it comes as no surprise that I have had no choice but:
to study both those four languages (+ some other) AND translations in all the directions (only to start with ),
to travel the world,
to study several more fields of knowledge, up to M.Sc. and Ph.D.,
to master some other interesting - and sometimes rather practical! - things.
Still can't stop, because the family have given me this urge. ▲ Collapse
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Nicole Schnell
United States
Local time: 11:43
English to German
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In memoriam | My sister was my first editor. | Dec 29, 2009 |
She is teaching German at Secondary School in Germany. Priceless.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 20:43
Spanish to English
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My daughter studied French at school then Spanish and tourism at university - she now works for a travel agent, so it is really only a component of her profile.
BTW has anyone ever noticed that most online application forms do not have "Translator" as a job option? This means that we usually have to click on "Other..."
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Cristina Munari
Italy
Local time: 20:43
Member (2008)
English to Italian
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But to be true, two cousins on my father's side deal with languages, one teaches French and Spanish and the other is (as a matter of fact, was) a translator.
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| My sister works in the same languages as me | Dec 29, 2009 |
We often work together on projects.
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