Poll: Do you live in your source or target language country?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 21:26
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Target Aug 17, 2020

I moved back to my home country (Portugal) in 2016 after 30 years in the francophone part of Belgium (French is one of my source languages).

 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 22:26
Member (2009)
English to German
+ ...
Both Aug 17, 2020

I live in Germany, but I translate from English and German into both German and American.

 
Nely van Seventer
Nely van Seventer
France
Local time: 22:26
English to Dutch
+ ...
both Aug 17, 2020

My native language is Dutch, but I live in Wales. I translate English and Dutch both ways, and I also translate Welsh to English. Before moving to the UK I lived in France, and I also translate French to English or Dutch #nomad

 
Gibril Koroma
Gibril Koroma  Identity Verified
Canada
Local time: 17:26
French to English
+ ...
Both Aug 17, 2020

I live and work in Canada, which is both anglophone and francophone.

 
Aline Amorim
Aline Amorim  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 18:26
English to Portuguese
+ ...
Target Aug 17, 2020

I live in Brazil, but I translate from American English and Brazilian Portuguese. And I am study italian.

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Monica Carneiro
Monica Carneiro  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 18:26
English to Portuguese
+ ...
Target Aug 17, 2020

I live in Brazil. I translate to American English to Brazilian Portuguese and vice versa.

 
Usa Sukdapisumpun
Usa Sukdapisumpun  Identity Verified
Netherlands
Local time: 22:26
Member (2020)
English to Thai
+ ...
No Aug 17, 2020

I live in Holland. I translate from English to a Thai.

 
Luiz Barucke
Luiz Barucke  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 18:26
Spanish to Portuguese
+ ...
A legal alien Aug 18, 2020

I'm a Spanish/English > Brazilian Portuguese translator and a Brazilian man in Argentina.

 
Danielle Gerard
Danielle Gerard
Belgium
Local time: 22:26
English to French
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Target Aug 18, 2020

I live in Belgium and translate from English/Italian/Dutch to French.

 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:26
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Yes Aug 18, 2020

Q. "Do you live in your source or target language country?"
A. Yes - depending on where I happen to be at any particular time.


 
Mervyn Henderson (X)
Mervyn Henderson (X)  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 22:26
Spanish to English
+ ...
Source Aug 18, 2020

Source

 
Peter Motte
Peter Motte  Identity Verified
Belgium
Local time: 22:26
Member (2009)
English to Dutch
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I absolutely live in the target country Sep 2, 2020

I absolutely live in the target country
Being in the source country for a while is interesting to learn the source languages, but it depends on the linguistic and especially cultural distence between target and source languages.
I would certainly advice is to people translating, e.g., Japanese to English, but for English and Dutch the distance is really small.
I do, however, live in a bilingual country, which gives me more opportunities to learn about the French source language
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I absolutely live in the target country
Being in the source country for a while is interesting to learn the source languages, but it depends on the linguistic and especially cultural distence between target and source languages.
I would certainly advice is to people translating, e.g., Japanese to English, but for English and Dutch the distance is really small.
I do, however, live in a bilingual country, which gives me more opportunities to learn about the French source language.
I get the English source language from everywhere.
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Angie Garbarino
Angie Garbarino  Identity Verified
Local time: 22:26
Member (2003)
French to Italian
+ ...
No Sep 2, 2020

I live in Spain, but I translate very rarely from SP.

 


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