Kingdom of Knuffel

Haha, I wanted to be a princess, rotfl. thena singer until my shyness kicked me in the face. Then I wanted to be a writer. Then I got older, decided to choose something more realistic and wanted to be a literary translator. I am none of these XD I'm writing but not a published writer yet and not gonna be in a long while.

I'd hug some skin markings

Polish to English an vice versa. Not too much, that's why I can't really be a translator, they have crazy expectations of "the more languages the better" and some translation experience (which I have but in documentation not literature). I'm slowly learning Spanish but it's not nearly enough for becoming a translator, not to mention literary translator :) With just English there's too much competition from other, more experienced translators anyways. I'd have to learn at least one more European language to try.
I'm still eyeing that literary translation course in April...

I always wished I pursued foreign languages as a major in college (as I don't even use my current degree) and really wished I kept emailing the foreign languages department of my college (they ignored my initial email and I was too chicken to email again or call) because I had questions concerning how I should go about just taking languages classes with my major. I still want to go back to school just to learn languages. I find them fascinating. But I would be too shy to ever talk to anyone in another language since I have a speech problem where I don't even enunciate my own language right.

I never went past bachelor's degree so it's not like I have education for translation. Univeristy was too stressful and time consuming for me even though I studied Hindi and some Japanese and I just love languages, they intrigue me.
Funny enough my BA thesis was basically literary analysis and after I passed that the professors asked me if I intend on continuing to Master's degree and I said no, they were "strongly encouraging" me to reconsider because they'd gladly have someone with such a literary eye etc. And I was like "I'll think about it" meanwhile in my head: "nopenopenopenopenopenope" Especially I wasn't interested in literature then, I was interested in translation specialty. Now I'm beginning to think maybe I should've actually reconsidered but well. I wanted to finish studies and start working to get money for saving for an apartment. Writing was still a hobby then although I knew I wanted to publish it someday.

I'd want to be a literary translator because I'm too shy to speak Once my boss asked me to translate orally on some meeting I wasn't prepared for and it was a nightmare. Mostly because he didn't tell me, so as mentioned, I wasn't prepared at all and I had to leave early to a doctor's appointment (I think it was gastroscopy, so super stressful) so I was distracted and the person my boss was meeting also understood what I wa stranslating and was correcting me and seemed annoyed that I missed some words (I just couldn't remember everything at once ) and it was kind of humiliating...

I love languages. My friend is from Austria, but her parents are Indian, so she can speak two of the Indian languages, German, and English and I just love listening to her speak in those languages. She'll speak German to her sister and Indian to her parents and it's beautiful. Japanese would be my first choice in learning more of since I know some basics from self study and what I've picked up from anime (lol) and what I stressed myself to remember for when I went to Japan the first time (so very basic sayings which I probably butcher the pronunciations of due to my speech problem).

I honestly don't think I could go back to school to get an actual education, I would only go back to learn what I want to learn because being forced into certain subjects and topics for a major was too stressful that I didn't really care if I retained any of the knowledge as long as I could pass the class. I could always tell when I did enjoy a class because I didn't find studying for it to be stressful or the class hard at all.

Oh my god, how embarrassing. I don't think my brain could keep up when translating on the spot.

I'm also under 50 donuts needed for my items. So ready to be done with this item so I can just move on and start it all over again for the next item.

Seriously, don't beat yourself up for a mistake in French. I'm French and almost no one I know can speak it properly, even if it's their native language.
And having worked in the tourism industry I'd be thankful for everyone who at least mumbles some words and tries because that's definitely not the case with everyone.

That being said, I speak three languages fluently and what helped me was entertainment in that language.
And a German teacher once told me that singing songs in whatever language you want to learn is a wonderful pronunciation exercise.

Which reminds me I should brush up on my German because I still struggle to make a sentence. Entertainment in German is hard to find. Except Derrick but I don't like that old series that much XD
Should read manga in German or something ^^

I need to brush up on my ASL
I live about halfway between two very sizable Deaf communities and so they tend to come to the local theme park during the summer and being able to directly talk with the adults instead of them being forced to rely on their hearing kid makes them super happy

Also wanna learn Italian and Japanese, former because various family members will visit our Italian relatives on a semi-regular basis and Japanese because a handful of pages I follow I'd like to not be forced to rely on a translation service one gave a tag translation as "horse placenta", for example. Nothing about the post had anything to do with horses, placentas, of some combo of

Japanese is hard to read. I do have the JLPT1 and I still can't read newspapers as well as I'd like to.
Guess it's a case of practice makes perfect but it's like they make everything more complicated than it should be.

I've had a few classes of Japanese ASL as well. Never had the chance to use it but I'd like to be able to have a conversation one day.