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Oct 31, 2022

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Alaa Galal
 
neilmac
neilmac
Espanha
Local time: 23:13
Espanhol para Inglês
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Source Oct 31, 2022

Most of my communication with clients is by e-mail and in Spanish. I prefer not to use the phone, as I rarely answer it during the day, mainly to avoid cold callers. I have a few client contacts who insist on communicating with me in English, to practise and keep their hand in. They tend to be senior management figures and one of them is based in New York.
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 22:13
Membro (2007)
Inglês para Português
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My source languages Oct 31, 2022

English, French or Spanish, rarely Italian, depending on the country where the client is based, although these last ten or so years I have noticed a very interesting tendency, even among francophone clients, to choose English as the communication language. One of my French direct clients always adds a few Portuguese words to her email, which I find very considerate of her…

Alaa Galal
Ian Keith Jones Williams
neilmac
 
Peter Simon
Peter Simon  Identity Verified
Holanda
Local time: 23:13
Inglês para Húngaro
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the question.. Oct 31, 2022

.. could have been a bit more subtle. English is both my source and target language, and I also communicate sometimes in Hungarian, my mother tongue,, which is also both source or target in lots of cases, and in Dutch, a third of my source languages.

Alaa Galal
svetlana cosquйric
 
Mr. Satan (X)
Mr. Satan (X)
Inglês para Indonésio
Other Oct 31, 2022

Telepathy.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
 
Christine Andersen
Christine Andersen  Identity Verified
Dinamarca
Local time: 23:13
Membro (2003)
Dinamarquês para Inglês
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LOL Oct 31, 2022

Mr. Satan wrote:

Telepathy.


That must be a great gift for a translator!
Or maybe not. I am sometimes glad my clients can´t read my thoughts, and that in fact only I know what I am really thinking while I sit here pretending to be a nice person
I am a total hypocrite, that´s for sure.

[Edited at 2022-11-01 12:54 GMT]

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
neilmac
Liena V.
Mr. Satan (X)
 
Helena Chavarria
Helena Chavarria  Identity Verified
Espanha
Local time: 23:13
Membro (2011)
Espanhol para Inglês
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In both my source and target languages Oct 31, 2022

All my communication is by email (and very occasionally WhatsApp): Half are in my source language (Spanish) and the other half in my target language (English). I never write in Catalán, because I'd make too many mistakes
 


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