Good morning everybody! A huge thank you to @Jeromobot and @adrechsel for giving me the steering wheel for this account this week. My name is Erik, a Swedish native speaker who has lived in Germany since back in 1991. I translate mainly technical texts from German into Swedish.
Back in the early 90s in the former GDR (outside Dresden, where I live), I soon found out there was a high demand for English teachers. People who had lost their jobs, often as a result of the German reunification and the economic changes, were offered retraining courses, which..
..often included a module of a certain numbers of English lessons. Working as a freelance English trainer at different private schools for adults was indeed a challenging task. Go figure: a Swede explaining English grammar to German natives. Oh well, it worked fine in the end.
After some years I started with DE-SV translations (which suited me fine thanks to my technical background). Luckily this developed quite well, and as the week only has 7 days and the day only 24 hours, I left the training business more or less completely in the end of the 1990s.
Apparently there are quite a few colleagues who have worked (or still work) as a language trainer before taking up a translation & interpreting career. Are there any soft skills you can apply in both cases?
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