Poll: Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language? Autor wątku: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?".
This poll was originally submitted by Chinese Concept
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| | | | | | Kirill Semenov 
Ukraina
Local time: 15:20
Członek ProZ.com
od 2004
angielski > rosyjski
+ ...
| Hard to say... | Aug 29, 2006 |
My working pair is English > Russian, and I live in Ukraine. The official language here is Ukrainian, but everyone speaks Russian, for many people here (even Ukrainians) it's their mother tongue, and a lot of people - including me - are also ethnical Russians. I just don't know which option to select. Not "both", but not exactly "target", either. And "neither" doesn't seem right to me.
| | | | Enrique Cavalitto
Argentyna
Local time: 09:20
Członek ProZ.com
od 2006
angielski > hiszpański
There was a poll on similar lines a little over three months ago, but I believe this one is more clear than the old one.
Regards,
Enrique
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Sophia Hundt (X)
Local time: 07:20
rosyjski > angielski
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English is the target language, and I live in United States.
| | | | | Wording ...... | Aug 29, 2006 |
Wording of the poll does strictly assume you have only one source (or, dare I say it) target language.
Should perhaps read:
Do you live in a country where the native language is (one of) your source or target language(s)?
Anyhow my source languages are Dutch, Afrikaans and Portuguese. Target language is UK English and I live in Portugal (granted it's the Algarve where English is widely spoken).
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[Edited at 2006-08-29 17:23]
| | | | Özden Arıkan
Niemcy
Local time: 14:20
Członek ProZ.com
angielski > turecki
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I translate from English to Turkish and live in Germany, where... they speak German
Not a favorable situation for a translator, but I hope to reverse it making German a second source language, not in the short run, though, but not in a so distant future, either. Or, so do I hope!
Deborah, I see no such assumption in the wording - although I know it is much likelier that I am the wrong one here. The poll question reads:
Do you live in a country where the native language is your source or target language?
| | | | Pundora
Indie
Local time: 17:50
angielski > hindi
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I live in New Delhi and Hindi is my native language. I translate from English into Hindi. An overwhelming majority of people speak or understand Hindi in India.
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