“When you speak a foreign language, you say what you CAN,
when you speak your mother tongue, you say what you MEAN”
Nicole Maina, conference interpreter and technical translator
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Nicole Maina
I often liken my work to that of a medical expert. Would you visit a gastroenterologist for a torn ligament or an ophthalmologist for otitis? Well, there you are! Then why do it for a technical translation?