Before I launch my brand new blog, first let me have the opportunity for a brief but to-the-point introduction of myself.
My name is Andrea and as many of you already know, I am a twenty-something language professional. I am closer to twenty than to thirty yet I am closer to be someone called an experienced linguist than an inexperienced one. My nickname and so-called brand name 'Translatorana' comes from, obviously, my profession (translator) and my first name (Andrea). Having a brand name instead of going with your official one is a risky idea but it has been paid off so far. The way I see it, the language industry is definitely the place where sometimes you have to take risk in order to succeed.
I am a native speaker of Hungarian and my working languages are English, German and Italian. In the majority of time I translate from English to Hungarian and vica versa. I have limited working proficiency in German and Italian which means I only translate them into Hungarian. My relation to these languages can easily be determined in one sentence: living near the Hungarian- Austrian border, German is the one I started off with (at the age of 5), English is the one I love the most and speak at its best, yet Italian is my true love story. As a total lingua fanatic, I have future plans to study one of the Slavic languages (preferably Russian) and improve my skills in Neo-Latino languages like Spanish and French. I am also highly interested in learning Catalán language - I guess it has something to do with the fact that I am a longtime supporter of FC Barcelona :)
In this blog I am intended to address professional issues that I am mostly concerned about - whether it is the relation between translation and social media; the gift and the curse of being a freelancer; the importance of being a great marketer for your business or how to be the master of your mother language (first and foremost). Speaking as a native Hungarian whose mother tounge is ranked 4th on the world list of most difficult languages to study, I think I can speak from perspective.
I encourage all translators, proofreaders, interpreters, teachers and language lovers to join me and engage in a powerful conversation to help things moving forward and to achieve something great together.
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