First of all, I'm a singer and I study law. I learned english on videogames, but the first time I spoke with a foreigner made me realize just how much I still lacked. Over time, reading and working as a guide to exchange students, I started to grasp how you actually get to learn a new language. I read complicated things. When I found myself teaching a guy from Canada words, I thought: well, maybe I am fluent. With mission English accomplished, the students from Latin America became a limitation for me. My Spanish was sour. It's one of the easiest and also trickiest languages for the ones that speak native Portuguese to learn. Along that way, I experimented Memrise (a language app). And then it came, the overload of "let's learn". I tried my hand on French, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Romanian and even some fictional languages. When you do it all at once you suddenly get the point. You get how it works. But it becomes really hard to improve on them all together. After all, you can only do so much progress by the time the Earth spins around itself. So I started focusing on the ones I was already good, hoping to gather some real skills on French and Italian. I consolidated my Spanish, and that gave me a whole other spectrum of books to read. And that was where I begun to love the work of a translator. When you read on the original language, you get as close as possible to the message. And, as a singer, I knew exactly what it felt like using your voice to carry on a message that you didn't write. When for the first time I had the opportunity to read a book in Spanish, on its original, that I had first read in Portuguese, I felt the magic the translator had to work there. And now here I am, trying my hand at translation.
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Portuguese
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Main translator
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