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Thread: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tranlator? Post: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tran... I'll definitely keep it in mind. Thanks for the suggestion. Like a lot of people who go oversees, I'll probably do a blog when I get over there. Who knows? Maybe it'll turn into something more som... |
Energist | General discussion | 27 | 6,092 | 2015-07-12, 10:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tranlator? Post: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tran... Thanks for your honest opinions, kraemder and PMotte. Honestly, I'm not dead-set on becoming a translator, but it is something I'm still very interested in segueing into eventually. My passion is wr... |
Energist | General discussion | 27 | 6,092 | 2015-06-27, 1:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tranlator? Post: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tran... Thanks, Jawful. Glad to have advice and comments still coming in. I'm still plugging away at the Japanese every day, and I am definitely a reader by nature. One of the things I've worked into my da... |
Energist | General discussion | 27 | 6,092 | 2015-06-22, 11:47 am | ||
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Thread: increasing listening skill Post: increasing listening skill SomeCallMeChris Wrote:I find them incredibly easy to follow compared to actual Japanese dramas, maybe because I know the formulas or maybe because the ones which are easily found for free are pretty s... |
Energist | The Japanese language | 26 | 4,532 | 2015-02-20, 2:22 pm | ||
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Thread: increasing listening skill Post: increasing listening skill Oh, one more thing: if you can, try to download Japanese dubbed episodes of your favorite Western shows. There are a surprising amount of cartoons in particular out there on the web that you can do t... |
Energist | The Japanese language | 26 | 4,532 | 2015-02-19, 5:35 pm | ||
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Thread: increasing listening skill Post: increasing listening skill Try the NHK's "News Web Easy" site, maybe. What's nice about it is you can watch the news story in regular speed, then listen to the report spoken slowly with a script (written in kanji, of course), ... |
Energist | The Japanese language | 26 | 4,532 | 2015-02-19, 5:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tranlator? Post: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tran... rtkrtk Wrote:What is it you want to write? Fiction, naturally. :P I've got a bunch of stuff written already, though, some of it for practice, some of it for personal enjoyment, and some of it--namel... |
Energist | General discussion | 27 | 6,092 | 2015-02-15, 1:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tranlator? Post: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tran... rtkrtk Wrote:Just as a note on my background: I uprooted myself and moved to a new country twice, each time not knowing the language, and each time thinking I would spend the rest of my life there. Fo... |
Energist | General discussion | 27 | 6,092 | 2015-02-14, 1:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tranlator? Post: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tran... First off, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to post such honest, thoughtful replies. I also can't believe I spelled "translator" wrong in the topic title. D'oh! vix86 Wrote:I'm not one t... |
Energist | General discussion | 27 | 6,092 | 2015-02-12, 2:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tranlator? Post: Need some honest insight: Too old to become a tran... I'll try to keep this as brief as possible, but I doubt it's going to be short. I'm 33-years-old, going back to school this summer to (finally) finish an English degree I started working on when I wa... |
Energist | General discussion | 27 | 6,092 | 2015-02-11, 6:31 pm | ||