Nancy

Question and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Nancy
• Where do you live?
  • Argentina
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • My love for languages, reading, and writing, and my curiosity.
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • Many colleagues might have my same strengths as well. I work as professionally as many of them. I especially put emphasis on writing skills, which today are often ignored, in favor of technological skills.
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • Learning every day.
• 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.
  • I had many no-so-perfect assignments. I have always learned from them that they teach you way more than the almost perfect ones.
• 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?
  • Be a bit more daring.
• 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.
  • Trados
• What's the best book you've read this year?
  • For my Master's Degree in Latin American Studies: Naturaleza, sociedad y alienación, by Guido Galafassi.