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In this fast and competitive world it isn’t easy being a freelancer, and it isn’t easy to get your foot in the door as a translator, especially when you are young and inexperienced.
I was very lucky in that I got to “learn on the job” when Berlin’s alternative magazine culture was exploding in the mid-90s and you could still count the number of English native speakers on one hand. I soon became the “go-to” girl in my network of friends and literally learned where to put apostrophes as I went…No, my local comprehensive school education didn’t even stretch to explaining what a relative clause or a collective noun is.
