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The next one is another favorite of mine as an interpreter w/ Turkish in their language combination: simultaneous between languages w/ inverse structure. I'd like to share w/ you 3 graphs that show a sentence translated from French, German & Turkish into English:
Isn't this mind-boggling? Can you imagine the level of anticipation in Turkish into English? The diversity of techniques you need to master to produce correct and timely sentences? This is not to say our language combination is the hardest but it shows the difference very well.
What do you think makes your language combination difficult in simultaneous? Syntax? Faux-amis? Culture? These graphs are from Selim Earls, Figen Doğan, Rasa Darbutaite and Bilge Has Bıyıklı's M.A.S. degree paper at @FTI_UNIGE (2009). Thank you for allowing me to use the graphs.
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My translation of another novel opening, this one from Portuguese. This is the first short paragraph of “The Society of Reluctant Dreamers”, by José Eduardo Agualusa, which comes out later this year.
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I thought today I might work through a single, simple sentence – stage by stage, issue by issue. It’s the first sentence of a novel I’m just starting, by the excellent @VillalobosJPe. Here it is:

Mi primo me llamó por teléfono y dijo: Te quiero presentar a mis socios.
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Nothing too hard to understand, so here’s the first quick stab:

My cousin called me on the telephone and said, “I want to introduce you to my partners.”

Translating is so easy!
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Oh, note that I’ve added quote-marks – I tend to standardise punctuation to whatever the norm is in the language I’m translating *to*. (No reason, I think, to write in one language and observes the norms of another.)
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