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Poll: If you could change your working language pair(s), which of these would you choose?
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Denise DeVries
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United States
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Spanish to English
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I'm happy with the languages I chose to learn. May 15, 2016

Doan Quang wrote:

neilmac wrote:

I'm perfectly happy with my current working pair.


Oh, yes! I'm perfectly happy with my current working pair (English into Vietnamese).


 
Muriel Vasconcellos
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United States
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Spanish to English
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Agree and disagree May 16, 2016

Mario Freitas wrote:

Aren't less competition and more lucrative options the same?

The options do not consider the balance between supply and demand. Increasing the supply without the corresponding demand is pure waste. So what really matters is the demand for the pair, not how rare or pleasant it is. You would certainly be sort of exclusive if you translated from Arabic to Swahilli. But how much work would you be able to get as compared to German-English or Japanese-English?

Competition is proportional to the demand. What you have to do is to become more competent, offer better quality, overcome the competition, whatever your pair is. The best professionals are always busy and well remunerated. The incompetent ones are always watching TV and fooling around in social networks.


I voted for a language with less competition, but Mario wisely points out that there has to be sufficient demand to make it worthwhile. The Scandinavian languages might be a good example, and since I am half Norwegian it would make sense for me to learn the language well and translate it. But it wouldn't be worth switching to a pair for which there is little demand.

Though I am stronger in Portuguese-English, for which there is less demand, I get most of my work for Spanish into English, where the demand is much greater even though the competition is greater as well.

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About incompetency and fooling around, the remark was uncalled-for and makes no sense.
 
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Paula Durrosier
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Argentina
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Please keep the discussion in line with rules May 16, 2016

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Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
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Thailand
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English to Thai
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Better information on a new language pair Aug 24, 2016

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I confess that I started my language pair of EN>TH but I earned a lot from JP>EN or EN>TH pair. Now I concentrate on EN>TH pair since I can read of many many latest information from what I translate or interpret. My JPEN, TH pair also killed my lingual flexibility since Japanese is used only in the Islands of Japan while English is used globally.

Soonthon L.
 
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