Russian Italian Translations for the Tourists

What is the work of translator when he / she has to accompany tourists? How can it be distinguished from such jobs like guide and escort?

It's a good question.

Some days ago I worked with a family of tourists who wanted only to move more sure and quick in a foreign country. This means they wanted to have a person who speaks good Italian and Russian and knows the city to visit as much as possible in the daytime because it is night at 14:30 now.

So, practically, it's impossible to distinguish 3 jobs in this case.

But those are 3 different jobs for the law. And two of them have special certificates. If I want to do first or second, I have to wait that time when the governors decide to give out those certificates. And it's very possible that they will decide it when I'll pass the the best life.

The question is: what job I'm doing? And how can I prove that I'm working as a translator in this or that case?

My tourists were very content to see the city of Naples from it's different sides. They could see many places in one day, they could eat what they prefer to eat, because with the help of translator it was very easy to order what they like. Finally, when we went in the royal part of the city with all those shops on every step, I could finally go home. There is not need to have a translator nearby when someone visits shops. In these cases everybody wants to be alone. :-)))

Translating from English to Italian over Russian

My life of translator from to Russian is much more calm in confront to summer now. I just said this job is not "direct": do you think, you translate a text or a speech, a conversation and everything finishes here? You put your salary in your wallet and go home to enjoy your free time, you hope.
No, your clients pretend you know literally everything and will do it for them. If you are translator means you are a guide, too. And you know all the most impossible facts about all the things. If you are a translator, you are a middleman. No, not "a" but "the" middleman. Nobody can even imagine, those are completely different jobs and -according to the current laws- you, translator, can't do it...

Oh yes, you are right, I just repeat it in every post.

Well, my job is different in the last period. I have to translate texts from English to Italian.


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Everybody knows, I'm Russian. It's very interesting to look at the persons that observe me listening to someone and writing what he is saying than. All the people wait, I'll write the speech in Russian and than translate it in Italian. When they see me writing directly in Italian, they become astonished and than ask me in embarrassment:
-What language are you writing in?
-Italian.
-Why don't you write Russian???
-Why Ш have?
-You are Russian!
-Well, but I need this text in Italian.
-Yes, but you are Russian!

So, you understood: if I'm Russian, think all the persons, I have to translate everything in Russian first!

We Need Translators At Every Step

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We do not think about it but it's impossible to imagine modern life without translations. People all over the world use the same products, technologies which manuals are translated in hundreds of languages. These translations have to be made by alive translators because no one even the best technology can understand the sense of the sentences. We watch the same movies, read the same news. Even the food we eat comes from different parts of the world. And it's just enough to understand the importance of the translators' job.

Here are some other examples. I wanted to list all of them because even the professional translators do not realize the importance of what they are doing all their life. Not for complications of the idea or something like this but for it's simplicity.

Now, think a moment:
did you never support a team or a sportsman from other country? How would you know more about it/ him if you could not read about?

Did you ever support an opinion of a person from other country? Nelson Mandela or Obama that be. How could you understand the situation in the place your loved ones or Facebook friends live in?

Do you know somebody who follows a foreign religion? Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity or what other you just remember...

Now, you will smile... Where comes your LOOK from? Your clothes? Your hairstyle? In the last period, I've seen many girls with this hairstyle like in this video and like it very much



But the role of translator is much more important: the right or wrong translation can influence the decisions of the governments, of the military leaders. That is why is so decisive when the translator knows the country She / He works in. It's well known fact that all we have different uses, mentality. And, when the translator can't amortize the differences of understanding, it can lead to the great, really great problems.

What could happen when the meditians of one country where the outbreak of a dangerous disease happens could not communicate with the researchers from other countries? Not from one but from many different countries? What would happen if they would give wrong quantities of the medicine?

If you want to begin this business and you read about the problems you can meet on your way, in this blog, too, you could think it's not an important job to have so many sacrifices.

First of all, every beginning has more or less the same problems. In any case you have to tread on somebodies pet corn. There is not place where somebody is waiting for you. You have to make much to take your bread in the life. And butter on your piece of bread is the awareness you are doing something very important.

Translator and Competitors

There are many different sites which connect translators with clients. Most of them offer only little texts for  translation. If you need this kind of work, register in all the possible job searches and make you send all the jobs for "translator" and "interpreter". Select specialized in translating sites, register there and send your CV to all the offers.

If you want to be paid, don't be avid. Don't try to earn all the money. There are many "employers" who earn money making work gratis those who looks for jobs. This is the case of "you will translate some texts and we will choose the best translator for a one year contract". The "employer" gives to all aspirants texts to translate, they make the work honestly. After that the "employer" disappears. He will offer other contests under other names next time.

The other problem are the competitors in different social networks. If you disturb their happy life, they will do everything possible to throw you from that professional network. Be warned that they are able to taint your reputation and good name. What they do? They ask you if you are able to do this or that work, they ask you to contact your clients etc. You hope to receive good salary with this work -but "employer" or "client" disappears without paying you a dime and with your clients that do not understand what's happening and why you are not doing what was promised.

So, when you begin to integrate in your profession, remember that it's a place where there are just other persons that do not want other competitors in their pond. Be ready to fight and to accept bitter tabs of the life. It's the way the world exist.

Can Translator be a Middleman?

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Just about a month I work on a new project - a site that has to make meet sellers from Italy and buyers from Russia and other countries. It was natural to pass from the interpreter's work to middlemen tasks since the business men do not know speak fluently all the languages and ask a translator to become their "agent". From the other side, it's the same for manufacturers, too. So, both are happy to pass the negotiations to a third person.

I had to work really hard with this site. It's not my field, and I had to learn many things. Sometimes I say: I am 51 years old and I had no one day in my life when I did not learn something. The "normal" persons think about retirement and grandchildren at this age. Will it happen one day for me, too? Or have I to learn till the death?

Then, I had to take part on negotiations between some of sellers - buyers.

Internet is a great place where to find all kinds of information and persons. But there are many wags, too. I would say many bad words about them, honestly. I think, those are ill persons because it's difficult to understand the motivations of someone who likes to jeer at other persons making them work hard to say them at the end "you are a fool. I was joking".

So, one of them said he is a great buyer. Almost he would buy half Italy (I just can exaggerate today). He asked me to contact some important Italian works. And disappeared when I did so that those works accepted to partner with him.

Now, I feel bad. I worked honestly and did much. I convinced the administrators of those works that this Russian man is not an thief but a honest person. That Italians believed me. And the finish of the story is that they will think all Russians are such "jokers". And, first of all, they will think bad about me. They do not know that I am the victim of a psychopath. I was the "men in the middle"...

Moral: never accept anonimous clients. Always ask credentials before you begin to work with anybody.

It was a very hard lesson. I do not know, how have I turn my honest reputation back...

The second lesson was that we have to do what we learned doing.
Someone asks you to help because you understand languages. And, when you make natural mistakes because you can't know all the peculiarities of their profession, they do not remember THEY asked you about a favour... And you learn you are a whipping-boy for them.

Italian Wine, Coffee and Snacks' Producers Look for Partners

This period when all the manufacturers turn back to their work after a period of vacation is very busy and I had not time to write here more.

As I told before, my work connects me in the greater part with the export managers of different local manufacturers. They often ask  me if I can connect them with the buyers in Russia and other countries of ex-URSS. So, this last period I had the task to look for partners for Italian Food Producers.
I even had to create catalogs and a site where to post all those offers. Here is the work I did
http://russiaitalia.weebly.com/

If you think that both producers and buyers would like to work without middlemen, you are surely right. Yes, it's true. But Italians do not speak Russian. And Russians even if they learn every language they have to use in their business, often understand that there are peculiarities that damage all the business if they do not know the language perfectly. The same problem is with the Italians who asked the persons who don't speak Russian or Italian good enough to translate negotiations. I was really shocked when I understood what possibilities those my clients lose for this reason. Incredible, you know.

So, if you want to buy excellent Vesuvian wine, traditional neapolitan wooden blended coffee or traditional (EXCELLENT!!! with beer) neapolitan snacks for your shop, you can write me and I'll connect you with them.

Translating from Italian to Russian in a Coffee Blending Fabric

There are many coffee blending fabrics in our zone. Some of them are very popular, others are less known not only here but maybe in all the world, too. It does not mean that these fabrics are not so good as the others, more big and with more possibilities of advertising.

With the group of Belorussian entrepreneurs, we visited one of these fabrics invited by the export manager, who was in Belorussia some month ago.

You have to know that the Chamber of Commerce of Salerno organized a business tour for local entrepreneurs to advertise local products and production abroad and to promote and open Russian and other Eastern countries' market to the little businesses of the region. Now, interested persons from there come here to look at and learn about the products they want to sell in their countries.

So, we visited a coffee fabric where I had to translate all the explanations and the negotiations.

It was forbidden to make close photos in that fabric, so I have only some general shorts.

Sacks with coffee from different countries arrive in the fabric. They are full with 2 qualities of seeds: arabica and robusta. They go in separated tanks. Computer sends them in the oven and than in other tanks.

There is a lab in the fabric where they taste new mixes. Once the mix is decided, computer continue to deliver necessary quantities from the tanks.

After that, the mix is automatically packed

and send to the partner

Both sides remained very content with the results of the visit and the collaboration will continue after the period of the summer vacations.