Poll: Do you live in your source or target language country? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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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).
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Thayenga 
Germany
Local time: 23:33
Member (2009)
English to German
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I live in Germany, but I translate from English and German into both German and American.
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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
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I live and work in Canada, which is both anglophone and francophone.
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Aline Amorim
Brazil
Local time: 19:33
English to Portuguese
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I live in Brazil, but I translate from American English and Brazilian Portuguese. And I am study italian.
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I live in Brazil. I translate to American English to Brazilian Portuguese and vice versa.
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I live in Holland. I translate from English to a Thai.
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Luiz Barucke
Brazil
Local time: 19:33
Member (2013)
Spanish to Portuguese
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| A legal alien | Aug 18, 2020 |
I'm a Spanish/English > Brazilian Portuguese translator and a Brazilian man in Argentina.
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I live in Belgium and translate from English/Italian/Dutch to French.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:33
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Q. "Do you live in your source or target language country?"
A. Yes - depending on where I happen to be at any particular time.
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
Spain
Local time: 23:33
Spanish to English
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Peter Motte
Belgium
Local time: 23:33
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... See more 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. ▲ Collapse
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I live in Spain, but I translate very rarely from SP.
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