{"id":9347,"date":"2019-12-22T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webweiden.de\/?page_id=9347"},"modified":"2021-02-11T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T21:15:17","slug":"about-a-z-translations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/about-a-z-translations\/","title":{"rendered":"About A-Z Translations"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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So, how does one get to become a translator or interpreter? For me, at least, it wasn’t via a direct path.<\/p>

Actually, I had always wanted to do something with music. Ever since I was little I have played a variety of instruments, sung in choirs, been in orchestras, and even made money playing the organ. After graduating high school, I had planned to go to Bayreuth and study church music there, but before that I was to go to the USA for one year – before the serious side of life began.<\/p>

That one year turned into ten in the end, during which I first earned a\u00a0Bachelor of Arts in Music (Voice Performance)\u00a0<\/strong>and then a\u00a0Master of Music in Conducting<\/strong>. During and after my studies, I worked in a variety of different jobs, from tutor (including in English!), security guard, and adjunct professor of German to clerk in the accounting office of a large retailer.<\/p>

Whether it is due to my musical, linguistic, or other aptitude, I have always been able to not only learn a foreign language fairly easily, but to also quickly speak it accent-free. Had I not had such a “strange” first name, nobody would have even considered that I was not American, and even so I often had to show my passport as proof of my German citizenship.<\/p>

After it became obvious that regarding my musical career the USA was a dead end, I decided to return to Germany and try my luck there. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to continue here, either, so I was faced with the question of what to do next.<\/p>

The decision was not a difficult one: I wanted to expand me “other”, i.e. linguistic talent and studied in Erlangen at the Institut f\u00fcr Fremdsprachen und Auslandskunde an der Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg to become a\u00a0state-certified translator and interpreter<\/strong>\u00a0for English and Spanish. During these four years, I was already able to establish important contacts in the industry and worked as translator and interpreter in different areas.<\/p>

After my successful graduation in 2008 and my\u00a0swearing in at the Landgericht Bamberg<\/strong>, I decided to become self-employed, since, on the one hand, I had already gained a foothold in the industry, and on the other hand, I work best when I can schedule and organize my work on my own. Since I have both high self-motivation and discipline, as well as excellent organizational talent, I provide high-quality and professional work, in which my factual bilingualism (German and English) is a great advantage.<\/p>

Of course, my musical training, both in Germany and the US, also plays a very important part – not on stage, but nonetheless with great significance – , since you naturally translate best in the area of expertise in which you have invested the most and which you consider the most fun.<\/p>

By the way, the name of my company is derived from my name<\/p>

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