Poll: Is there a healthy/active local linguist community where you live?
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Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
法国
Local time: 10:04
French法语译成English英语
. Oct 5, 2022

Here, I used to invited to various get-togethers via the alumni association of the translation school I graduated from, and the French translators' association. I went along a couple of times in the Before Times. However I have since let my membership to both lapse, so I don't even know whether they still organise them.

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neilmac
neilmac
西班牙
Local time: 10:04
Spanish西班牙语译成English英语
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Yes Oct 5, 2022

Yes there is, but nowadays I'm usually too busy with other things to actively engage in things like conferences, powwows, etc.

 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
比利时
Local time: 10:04
正式会员 (自2020)
French法语译成Dutch荷兰语
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Not that I know of. Oct 5, 2022

Translators are generally loners (professionally spoken). So am I. I don't feel any need to become part of any real-life linguist community whatsoever. My spare time is precious.

Jan Truper
Tom in London
Liena Vijupe
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Giovana Zaltron
Alex Lichanow
Philippe Etienne
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
葡萄牙
Local time: 09:04
正式会员 (自2007)
English英语译成Portuguese葡萄牙语
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I don't know Oct 5, 2022

I’m no longer the social being I once was and I love working and living alone (I happen to have my youngest daughter with me since November last year until the repair works in her apartment are completed). Anyway, I am in frequent contact with some Proz members and with my ex-colleagues in Brussels but we don’t make a community…

Philip Lees
expressisverbis
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
葡萄牙
Local time: 09:04
正式会员 (自2015)
English英语译成Portuguese葡萄牙语
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I doubt it Oct 5, 2022

I live in a city located a bit over 13 km from Porto’s city centre.
I'm surrounded by beautiful mountain chains, a river, leafy trees, and fresh air, so I doubt that there is any.

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Lieven Malaise
Hassan Bekhit Hassan
Kay Denney
Adél Durst
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
德国
Local time: 10:04
English英语译成German德语
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No idea Oct 6, 2022

I have never made any attempt to be part of a "translator community" or anything like that. There is only one fellow translator among my friends, but I knew him a long time before we became translators. Other than that, I'm more than happy to spend my leisure time without talking business

 
Michael Newton
Michael Newton  Identity Verified
美国
Local time: 04:04
Japanese日语译成English英语
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Linguist community Oct 6, 2022

I live in a small town adjacent to Boston. Taking the tram to my favorite Starbucks, I can hear Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, Italian, Korean and the like. I am frequently asked for directions. The second language of the town is Russian, then Hebrew, then Chinese. One cannot help but eavesdrop on the multi-lingual conversations surrounding me. My local bookstore now stocks books in five languages with Japanese a recent addition. The problem is that a number of the ... See more
I live in a small town adjacent to Boston. Taking the tram to my favorite Starbucks, I can hear Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, Italian, Korean and the like. I am frequently asked for directions. The second language of the town is Russian, then Hebrew, then Chinese. One cannot help but eavesdrop on the multi-lingual conversations surrounding me. My local bookstore now stocks books in five languages with Japanese a recent addition. The problem is that a number of the works in Japanese have Volume I and Volume II but Volume is often left out. I speak Japanese at home all day and in the evening when work is done, I go to Netflix for the latest K-drama or telenovela from Spain or Mexico. I also buy Russian and Japanese newspapers from the local Russian and Japanese delis. We have one Chinese radio station, one in Korean, two in Portuguese and four in Spanish. There are local Greek pastry shops and a Greek taverna where I can brush up on Greek (besides the weekly liturgy in Greek as I am Greek Orthodox). And whenever I get a chance, I speak English.Collapse


expressisverbis
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Patricia Prevost
Patricia Prevost  Identity Verified
西班牙
Local time: 10:04
English英语译成Spanish西班牙语
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Not that I'm aware of Oct 6, 2022

There is a charming group of translators in a city close to mine and I sometimes join them but not as often as I would like. Any translators in Vitoria-Gasteiz?

 


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