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Poll: Have you ever taught the language(s) you work in to others? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Thayenga 
Germany
Local time: 20:40
Member (2009)
English to German
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Teaching English to the French guests of a language school director.
And I've also taught (an still do) both English and Germany in less formal classes.
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I'm surprised so many translators have also been teachers, I'd have thought the two would attract totally different types of people
You must all be more complicated than me
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I started out teaching Spanish as a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the university I graduated from. After I moved to Spain, I started teaching EFL at a local academy, then found a job at a British international school, where I first taught Spanish from KS 1 through GCSC and then added British History, Modern International History and Child Care and Development, while doing translations on the side (mostly through contacts I made at the school).
I really enjoyed the students and t... See more I started out teaching Spanish as a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the university I graduated from. After I moved to Spain, I started teaching EFL at a local academy, then found a job at a British international school, where I first taught Spanish from KS 1 through GCSC and then added British History, Modern International History and Child Care and Development, while doing translations on the side (mostly through contacts I made at the school).
I really enjoyed the students and the subjects I taught, but the school's administration was simply awful and I eventually left when I was offered a consultant position designing an internet-based Spanish course. This gave me time to build up my translation client portfolio while I finished that project and could begin translating full-time.
I can't imagine going back to teaching. I love translating.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 20:40
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Not complicated | May 7, 2014 |
Chris S wrote:
I'm surprised so many translators have also been teachers, I'd have thought the two would attract totally different types of people
You must all be more complicated than me
Hi Chris,
no, we're probably not more "complicated" than you are. But different people enjoy doing different things. Being a translator is 8or can be) a fulltime job, leaving no time for training/teaching. The most important thing is that you enjoy, even love what you're doing.
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I taught English for 20 years, most of which was at my own language school. I also taught Spanish to foreigners in Mexico.
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Eleonora Chyc
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:40
Russian to Ukrainian
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I used to teach English professionally for 11years.I also teach my daughter Russian and Ukrainian (my native languages).Sometimes - my friends. It's a way of socializing .I don't mean I like showing off, it's rather fun.I offered Polish to my relatives and did work but then it stopped. Never mind. People tend to value something when they pay for it .
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Vanda Nissen
Australia
Local time: 04:40
Member (2008)
English to Russian
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| Yes, formally | May 8, 2014 |
I've been teaching Russian for about 17 years, different levels - University, language schools, high schools.
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I taught English and helped with Spanish (for us gringos) while in Argentina.
I'd love to pick up a third language if anyone here wants to teach me for free
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John Cutler
Spain
Local time: 20:40
Spanish to English
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Sheila Wilson wrote:
1) You leave your native country and immerse yourself in another language
2) You retrain to teach your native language - it was one of the few jobs you could do without the local language, before the Internet
3) You help adult students patch up their English texts; correct exam papers
4) Once you speak the lingo OK, people ask you to translate things for them, unofficially, for a bottle of local wine
5) You see translation developing as a second income stream rather than a source of booze, so you get trained and official.
Same trajectory here.
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| Yes - I think it qualifies | May 9, 2014 |
I taught English-Spanish translation at Georgetown University for 14 years, and much of my job was teaching English to the students.
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