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>Have you ever met someone who can do 0(ish) delay translation between languages? With no accent? I have met quite a few professional translators that work for

>Have you ever met someone who can do 0(ish) delay translation between languages? With no accent? I have met quite a few professional translators that work for the European Union and all of them add a significant delay to translation. And accent. You are probably referring to speaking different languages like a native, but that is not translating anything: When I speak Spanish(as a native speaker) I just think in Spanish, the same in any other language like German or French. In fact if you speak for example in French or Italian you need to add some "music" to each phrase. Usually when you are translating you subconsciously carry those tones to the other languages. E.g If I translate from French to Spanish I will carry the French intonation to Spanish even when I am native in Spanish.

com2kid 6y ago
> I have met quite a few professional translators that work for the European Union and all of them add a significant delay to translation. And accent. My point is more that learning this skill is an academic pursuit that involves a lot of training. There is a delay, (word ordering, brain time) but the top translators I've met have zero accent. (Most impressive was meeting someone, not a translator IIRC, who had not only gotten rid of their accent but learned a California American accent!) But again, doing all of this involves a lot of study, from the biology/mechanics of speaking, to the deep cultural knowledge that is needed to translate idioms.