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Sanjay V Shah
Question and Answer
- What is your name?
- Sanjay V Shah
- Where do you live?
- Mumbai, India
- What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
- Writing has always been my passion
- Language for me is my mother
- I am loving every bit of writing and translation and I intend to keep doing it all my life
- List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
- Excellent command over native languages like English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and zeal to excel
- Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
- Every word is reincarnated with translation
- We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
- It was a medical transcription assignment which I took up, as a friend forced it upon me. Soon, I realized that such a translation is not my cup of tea. After that, I resolved to never touch it again.
- If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
- Read a lot, hear languages carefully and never hesitate to find our different, local and unknown meaning of a word. Such a hard work will help you become a better translator.
- Name one resource – such as a phone app, CAT tool, website, and so forth – that you find especially helpful in your translating or interpreting work.
- Reading and then, observing things are important. And yes, thesaurus too
- What's the best book you've read this year?
- Made in Japan by Ako Morita - have read it maybe 50th time this year.
Tamer Osman
Question Answer
- What is your name?
- Tamer Osman
- Where do you live?
- Canada
- What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
- I adore languages. I am a multi-skilled, deadline-oriented ,perpetually upgrading ,innovative, seasoned, meticulous, and professional ESL / FSL teacher & writer, translator & proofreader.
- List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
- Knowing 5 languages
- Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
- challenegs of translating technological terms
- We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
- An assignment written in African French. The problem with that assignment was that I was unaware of the dialects of the African French. So it was not ideal for me. I learnt that I had to give some time for reading in different cultures of the world, because thatwould help meovercome any obstacles in the translation process.
- If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
- Follow what is going on in the world and in every walk of life, so that you can create yourself as a professional translator.
- Name one resource – such as a phone app, CAT tool, website, and so forth – that you find especially helpful in your translating or interpreting work.
- MateCat
- What's the best book you've read this year?
- Change Your Mind - Change Your Life
by: Leon Van Keulen
- Change Your Mind - Change Your Life
Marina
Question and Answer
- What is your name?
- Marina
- Where do you live?
- Voronezh, Russia
- Years of experience as an interpreter or translator?
- 5
- What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
- I started learning English at the age of 7 and it was practically the only subject apart from Russian and Literature that I liked. So I had no choice!
- List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
- Constant self-development
- Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
- Realizing that my translation of a book will be read by thousands of people.
- We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
- There were a few tasks where the client claimed to know English perfectly and always tried to intervene into the process of translation. I learned that such situations aren't worth being anxious about.
- If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
- More practice!
- Name one resource – such as a phone app, CAT tool, website, and so forth – that you find especially helpful in your translating or interpreting work.
- Linvgo dictionary
- What’s the best book you’ve read this year?
- Hard to choose between Liane Moriarty's Big LIttle Lies and Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
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Chirag Umakant Thakkar
Question and Answer
- What is your name?
- Chirag Umakant Thakkar
- Where do you live?
- India
- Years of experience as an interpreter or translator
- 28
- 2What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
- I am interested in languages and books right from my childhood. I have taught languages in India and in UK. While teaching, I had to translate a lot for my students. So, for me, it was but natural to move towards translation, once I had certain economical security.
- List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
- Basic technical knowledge of programming is handy for app localization projects.
- Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
- When a translated book is printed with my name on the spine.
- We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
- A book about alternative medicine was my not-so-perfect project. I learnt that my native language (Hindi and Gujarati) lacks many words of medical terminology.
- If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
- One can correct written pages, but not the blank pages, so the first draft is the most important one.
- Name one resource – such as a phone app, CAT tool, website, and so forth – that you find especially helpful in your translating or interpreting work.
- www.Gujaratilexicon.com
- What’s the best book you’ve read this year?
- Gandhi Ganga - compiled by Mahendra Meghani
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