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Poll: If you have a 'C' language, do you find that you use it for work... Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 02:02
Spanish to English
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| First define your terms | Apr 11, 2013 |
Eva María Ruiz wrote:
Dear all:
I am really surprised that the most voted option has been "What is a language C?" Everybody knows that the language C is the second foreign language you learn in a Translation degree. Language B is one's first foreign language and language A is the native one.
Best regards,
Eva
Sorry Eva, "everybody knows" is not quite right. For example, I have a degree in Russian and French, but both are quite rusty and nowadays I really only translate from English to Spanish. Despite the different definitions provided above, I'm still not quite sure what the poll query is asking.
PS: I also studied German for 5 years but haven't really used it much since I stopped studying...
[Edited at 2013-04-11 12:40 GMT]
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inkweaver 
Germany
Local time: 02:02
French to German
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| If C language means ... | Apr 11, 2013 |
Stephanie Mitchel wrote:
As Christine and José kindly explained, your 'C' language is any language you can speak and/or write with a degree of fluency, but not the mastery that's required for active use (i.e. translating or interpreting into).
translating into that language does that mean that I have only C languages since I neither translate into English nor French or Italian?
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| can't tell which is my C language | Apr 11, 2013 |
I think this term is more used by interpreters.
I wouldn't translate into any of the languages I translate from.
And even though English was the first language I started to learn (at school, age 9?), it is far from being my first language today, whereas Polish, which I started the latest is the one which gives me the most and best new opportunities of work, and I would say I am better at it. Italian is probably the language in which I write best, but still not as a native speaker.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 02:02
Member (2009)
English to German
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I do use my C language, but don't translate into it.
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Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 01:02
Member (2007)
English
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| Learning intensively, but not for work | Apr 11, 2013 |
Does 3 lessons per week plus loads of practice make a language your C language, even if you don't have the skill to translate from it, let alone into it? If so, Spanish is my C language. I've been living in Spain for almost a year now but I'm not making as much progress as I'd hoped. The diminishing memory that goes with advancing years is largely to blame, but a large anglophone community and a TV that mainly gets French stations don't help. At 57, I doubt Spanish will ever become a working lan... See more Does 3 lessons per week plus loads of practice make a language your C language, even if you don't have the skill to translate from it, let alone into it? If so, Spanish is my C language. I've been living in Spain for almost a year now but I'm not making as much progress as I'd hoped. The diminishing memory that goes with advancing years is largely to blame, but a large anglophone community and a TV that mainly gets French stations don't help. At 57, I doubt Spanish will ever become a working language. ▲ Collapse
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Thayenga wrote: I do use my C language, but don't translate into it.
And it is not French
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Sheila Wilson wrote:
TV that mainly gets French stations don't help.
In Ibiza TV only gets Spanish stations;)
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Helen Hagon
Local time: 01:02
Member (2011)
Russian to English
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My C language is less-than-perfect German. I have used it for work, but not as a translator. I used to work in export and had to talk regularly to German customers. Although I can 'get by' pretty well in German, I would never translate it unless it was something very simple.
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Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 01:02
Member (2007)
English
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| I stopped understanding broadcasting many years ago (in any language) | Apr 11, 2013 |
Angie Garbarino wrote: Sheila Wilson wrote:
TV that mainly gets French stations don't help. In Ibiza TV only gets Spanish stations;)
We're supposed to get them, Angie, but we don't seem to be "hooked in" to terrestrial channels. I don't understand TV nowadays, and strangely enough neither does my husband. Everyone talks in riddles and the few people who seem able to dumb-down their language for me are all Brits who think the world revolves around the BBC and SKY. We brought some sort of box and dish with us from France which works, but it thinks we still live in the Languedoc.
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Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 20:02
English to Spanish
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| Future C language | Apr 11, 2013 |
I plan on studying French as my C language. I intend to use it in translation in a few years
Cheers and encouragement are accepted
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| I thought of C++ as well! | Apr 11, 2013 |
I lived in an English speaking home in Germany, where I attended school and spoke German primarily. Sadly, I've forgotten almost everything. I would love to learn German again (or remember it?).
For now it's just English and Spanish.
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| Never heard of it | Apr 11, 2013 |
Eva María Ruiz wrote:
Dear all:
I am really surprised that the most voted option has been "What is a language C?" Everybody knows that the language C is the second foreign language you learn in a Translation degree. Language B is one's first foreign language and language A is the native one.
Best regards,
Eva
I have studied together during my whole education Italian, French and English, then I have learnt Spanish and Catalan (no school or others)...
In this case, which letter my languages should have? I have never heard of this categorization before...
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Ittai Hen
Israel
Local time: 03:02
Member (2011)
English to Hebrew
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I must confess that C language (Arabic) helped me to "set foot in", yet, due to localization industry demands, it has been neglected. I still use it the local colloquial for "breaking the ice" with Israeli Arabs (Arabs of 48)
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| Not everyone does, apparently | Apr 11, 2013 |
Eva María Ruiz wrote:
Dear all:
I am really surprised that the most voted option has been "What is a language C?" Everybody knows that the language C is the second foreign language you learn in a Translation degree. Language B is one's first foreign language and language A is the native one.
Best regards,
Eva
As the most popular option so far shows that those who have voted do not know what a C language is, then clearly, not everyone does know. Not every translator has taken a translation degree.
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