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| | | neilmac Spain Local time: 15:42 Spanish to English + ...
Most of my communication with clients is by e-mail and in Spanish. I prefer not to use the phone, as I rarely answer it during the day, mainly to avoid cold callers. I have a few client contacts who insist on communicating with me in English, to practise and keep their hand in. They tend to be senior management figures and one of them is based in New York. | | | My source languages | Oct 31, 2022 |
English, French or Spanish, rarely Italian, depending on the country where the client is based, although these last ten or so years I have noticed a very interesting tendency, even among francophone clients, to choose English as the communication language. One of my French direct clients always adds a few Portuguese words to her email, which I find very considerate of her… | | | Peter Simon Netherlands Local time: 15:42 English to Hungarian + ... the question.. | Oct 31, 2022 |
.. could have been a bit more subtle. English is both my source and target language, and I also communicate sometimes in Hungarian, my mother tongue,, which is also both source or target in lots of cases, and in Dutch, a third of my source languages. | |
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Mr. Satan (X) English to Indonesian |
Mr. Satan wrote: Telepathy. That must be a great gift for a translator! Or maybe not. I am sometimes glad my clients can´t read my thoughts, and that in fact only I know what I am really thinking while I sit here pretending to be a nice person I am a total hypocrite, that´s for sure.
[Edited at 2022-11-01 12:54 GMT] | | | In both my source and target languages | Oct 31, 2022 |
All my communication is by email (and very occasionally WhatsApp): Half are in my source language (Spanish) and the other half in my target language (English). I never write in Catalán, because I'd make too many mistakes | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Poll: I communicate with most of my clients in: Protemos translation business management system | Create your account in minutes, and start working! 3-month trial for agencies, and free for freelancers!
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