Poll: Did you use to read a lot when you were a child? Initiator des Themas: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | | Saturday at the library | Nov 15 |
About every other Saturday late morning, my father would take my siblings and I to a city library to get 2 books each. I started with Verne, Salgari, Tarzan, Karl May . .
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I read a LOT as a child and it was a habit that never left me...
| | | | Liena Vijupe 
Lettland
Local time: 19:23
Mitglied (2014)
Französisch > Lettisch
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As a child, that's all I ever did. There have been times when I got tired of it and stopped reading for a while or only read non-fiction, but now I enjoy it again. It just seems harder to find something new that's worth reading.
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Rachel Waddington
Vereinigtes Königreich
Local time: 17:23
Niederländisch > Englisch
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Pretty much all the time - there wasn't much else to do.
(I'm puzzled by the 11.6% of translators who didn't read a lot as a child - I would have thought that was almost a requirement for the job)
| | | | Mónica Algazi
Uruguay
Local time: 14:23
Mitglied (2005)
Englisch > Spanisch
| expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 17:23
Mitglied (2015)
Englisch > Portugiesisch
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| Yes, 'até queimar as pestanas' 😁😊 | Nov 15 |
In my childhood and a few years later at university, I read a lot... 'until my eyelashes burned out'.
At the moment, I'm reading technical books more.
| | | | Lieven Malaise
Belgien
Local time: 18:23
Mitglied (2020)
Französisch > Niederländisch
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I started reading from when I was about 13 years old. We had a school library and a list with books we were supposed to read during the year. I liked it so much that I didn't limit myself to the list. I continued reading during my college years, but it slowly faded. I still like it and hope to really take the time again one day, but there are just too many interesting things: movies, series, podcasts... and there's so little time. I sometimes try to read before I sleep, but that's exactly what i... See more I started reading from when I was about 13 years old. We had a school library and a list with books we were supposed to read during the year. I liked it so much that I didn't limit myself to the list. I continued reading during my college years, but it slowly faded. I still like it and hope to really take the time again one day, but there are just too many interesting things: movies, series, podcasts... and there's so little time. I sometimes try to read before I sleep, but that's exactly what it makes me do within minutes, unfortunately. ▲ Collapse
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Mario Chávez
Vereinigte Staaten
Local time: 12:23
Mitglied (Jun 2024)
Englisch > Spanisch
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| One of the best habits | Nov 15 |
I started reading anything that fell into my hands, even drug prospectuses for medicine I was taking, while waiting at the local clinic/hospital. I was part compulsion, part curiosity, part biological imperative, as necessary as breathing to me. It still is.
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I read a LOT as a child and it was a habit that never left me...
| | | | Mario Chávez
Vereinigte Staaten
Local time: 12:23
Mitglied (Jun 2024)
Englisch > Spanisch
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I often preferred reading to playing with kids. According to my father, I would invite a friend over, who would be carrying a comic book. I would start reading and neglect my friend.
To Americans, reading often means reading works of fiction (no wonder, right?), whereas for me, at least, it means reading a variety of topics, sometimes disparate ones, rarely fiction. Don't get me wrong, I love a good novel. I've read Coelho in Portuguese, Octavio Paz, Borges, Cortázar, Isabel Allend... See more I often preferred reading to playing with kids. According to my father, I would invite a friend over, who would be carrying a comic book. I would start reading and neglect my friend.
To Americans, reading often means reading works of fiction (no wonder, right?), whereas for me, at least, it means reading a variety of topics, sometimes disparate ones, rarely fiction. Don't get me wrong, I love a good novel. I've read Coelho in Portuguese, Octavio Paz, Borges, Cortázar, Isabel Allende, Neruda and others in Spanish: stories, essays, poems.
I'm going to the Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara, Mexico, in two weeks. I can't wait to discover books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and hopefully bring some with me.
Liena Vijupe wrote:
As a child, that's all I ever did. There have been times when I got tired of it and stopped reading for a while or only read non-fiction, but now I enjoy it again. It just seems harder to find something new that's worth reading. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Mario Chávez
Vereinigte Staaten
Local time: 12:23
Mitglied (Jun 2024)
Englisch > Spanisch
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| Reading and writing | Nov 15 |
I've long been curious as to the admission tests to translation courses. To many of us, an aptitude and inclination to reading and writing are a given for the job of translator. But there's been a crisis in reading and writing attitudes in the last few decades. Younger people have become so inured to lower standards in reading and writing that they consider whatever drivel is published on the web as desirable or standard.
Few universities around the world have admission tests for pr... See more I've long been curious as to the admission tests to translation courses. To many of us, an aptitude and inclination to reading and writing are a given for the job of translator. But there's been a crisis in reading and writing attitudes in the last few decades. Younger people have become so inured to lower standards in reading and writing that they consider whatever drivel is published on the web as desirable or standard.
Few universities around the world have admission tests for prospective translation students. I know that some Canadian universities have both a language and a writing test. American universities with translation programs have none outside of TESL/TOEFL tests, which should be an unremitting embarrassment to translation program and university administrators but it is not.
And today's translators do read, but the type of texts that catch their attention gives me pause, judging by the book lists I see proudly posted by some colleagues on social media.
Rachel Waddington wrote:
Pretty much all the time - there wasn't much else to do.
(I'm puzzled by the 11.6% of translators who didn't read a lot as a child - I would have thought that was almost a requirement for the job) ▲ Collapse
| | | | neilmac
Spanien
Local time: 18:23
Spanisch > Englisch
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My mother was a librarian, which helped!
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From my 9/10 years old, I read everything that fell into my hands, in other words, everything I could get off my father's bookshelf without being seen. Who, in her right mind, reads Nietzsche at 12/13? I don't know if I understood anything, but back then I loved philosophy. I would read at night in bed, hidden under the sheets and illuminated by a torch, often until the early hours of the morning. Nobody understood why I was always so sleepy. Fortunately, in order to get to my room, my parents h... See more From my 9/10 years old, I read everything that fell into my hands, in other words, everything I could get off my father's bookshelf without being seen. Who, in her right mind, reads Nietzsche at 12/13? I don't know if I understood anything, but back then I loved philosophy. I would read at night in bed, hidden under the sheets and illuminated by a torch, often until the early hours of the morning. Nobody understood why I was always so sleepy. Fortunately, in order to get to my room, my parents had to go through my brothers' room and, as they were much naughtier than me, whenever my mum or dad decided to check what was going on over there, there was always something that tipped me off and gave me time to switch off the torch, hide the book and pretend to be snoring... ▲ Collapse
| | | | Baran Keki
Türkei
Local time: 20:23
Mitglied
Englisch > Türkisch
As a kid, my mother promised to buy me a Lego set for each book I finished. So I attacked them books with vim and vigour.. My Lego collection increased considerably in a matter of months, so did the half-read, unread books...
| | | | Novian Cahyadi
Indonesien
Local time: 00:23
Mitglied (Apr 2024)
Englisch > Bahasa Indonesia
When I was a kid, I set aside some of my allowance to buy weekly issues of Bobo magazine. These contained short stories, comics, and encyclopedic articles. It still exists, but the quality isn't as good as it used to be. Then again, maybe I'm blinded by nostalgia.
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