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Duygu Cakal (X)
Duygu Cakal (X)
Local time: 09:24
Turkish to English
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Great! Feb 16, 2012

Useful and fair
 
JaneD
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Sweden
Local time: 08:24
Member (2009)
Swedish to English
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Interesting stuff Feb 18, 2012

Particularly interesting is that people in the places that really need the information are being excluded from it due to a lack of translators.

I suppose it's obvious, though, that translation qualifications are not likely to be a high priority to someone undertaking higher education in one of these poorer countries. Nor are natives likely to move from one country to another as much as in the West and "fall into" being a translator due simply to having picked up another language fl... See more
Particularly interesting is that people in the places that really need the information are being excluded from it due to a lack of translators.

I suppose it's obvious, though, that translation qualifications are not likely to be a high priority to someone undertaking higher education in one of these poorer countries. Nor are natives likely to move from one country to another as much as in the West and "fall into" being a translator due simply to having picked up another language fluently. ▲ Collapse
 
Hafizul Islam
Hafizul Islam
Bangladesh
Local time: 12:24
English to Bengali
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a perfect globalization Feb 21, 2012

Language has a boundary , it divides but translation can break it and unite. In that sense it can perfectly work as a translators without borders.
 


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