Is there a market to translate from SEA languages?
Thread poster: Macià Planas
Macià Planas
Macià Planas
Local time: 16:16
English to Spanish
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Feb 19, 2018

I'm at a "crossroads in my life" where I have an Intermediate level of Vietnamese and I need to decide whether to invest time and money to reach an advanced level to be able to translate from Vietnamese into Spanish/Catalan or forget about it. My current level allows me to travel and talk to my Vietnamese friends but I do not have the proficiency to translate from it. It would take me some years to reach that level.

I am not planning to get rich with it but I don't want to spend all
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I'm at a "crossroads in my life" where I have an Intermediate level of Vietnamese and I need to decide whether to invest time and money to reach an advanced level to be able to translate from Vietnamese into Spanish/Catalan or forget about it. My current level allows me to travel and talk to my Vietnamese friends but I do not have the proficiency to translate from it. It would take me some years to reach that level.

I am not planning to get rich with it but I don't want to spend all this time and effort for nothing, so I wanted to know to what extent there is a market to translate from South East Asian languages. I would also like to know what type of documents are the most common in such language pairs.

Although in my case it's Vietnamese, I am happy to hear experiences with other SEA languages such as Thai, Malay and Indonesian, and into other large European languages like German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
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Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei
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Ghana
Local time: 16:16
Japanese to English
There certainly is Feb 20, 2018

Perhaps it's not my story to tell, but you might find this past thread interesting: https://www.proz.com/forum/getting_established/322225-reflections_on_2017_my_first_us_100000_year_from_translation.html

There's a market for Vietnamese-English, I know that much. Vietnamese-Spanish/Catalan? I'll leave it th
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Perhaps it's not my story to tell, but you might find this past thread interesting: https://www.proz.com/forum/getting_established/322225-reflections_on_2017_my_first_us_100000_year_from_translation.html

There's a market for Vietnamese-English, I know that much. Vietnamese-Spanish/Catalan? I'll leave it that the experts in the field to tell us.
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