I used to be a translator (a long time ago). I'm no longer in that line of work, but friends still ask me for recommendations when they need a translator.

I know we have a lot of translators on Fedi and I would like to connect with you!

If you are a translator who may be taking new clients in the next year or so, please raise your hand, say what languages you work with, and share links to your websites, etc., if you have them!

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@ShaulaEvans Hi, Shaula. I'm able to translate Arabic and French. Thank you so much for asking!
@RABid شكرًا!
@ShaulaEvans انت ايضا؟

@RABid Not really. 😂

I did a year of school in France, and took Arabic private lessons for a year with a wonderful teacher from Lebanon.

I can still read and write a tiny bit, but the classes offered were very basic, and I didn't learn much vocabulary at the time.

I had always hoped to pick the studies back up but my life took a different turn towards different language families.

At this point, after tackling several "hard" languages, I'm focusing on learning within the groups I know.

@ShaulaEvans Well, you're well on your way once you're familiar with the writing system. (I'm not kidding when I say the script is the easy part.)
@RABid The script is almost always the easy part! (With perhaps the notable exception of Chinese.)
@ShaulaEvans I agree. I've studied Chinese off and on and have learned only that I have very poor visual memory.