Taufik Afdal

Question and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Taufik Afdal
• Where do you live?
  • Tanjungpinang
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • I love translating and gaining deeper understanding of other fields of study.
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • Online Search Skill
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • Catching up with the deadline and revise the results
• 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 project from water treatment plant company. There were technical terms that i have never heard. What i learnt was the technical terms could be left untranslated since the readers are technicians.
• 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?
  • I would advise me to learn more grammar and collected more glossaries on cloud-based.
• 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.
  • google.translate.com
• What's the best book you've read this year?
  • The Business Guide for Translators