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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 14:27
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Currently, none of it Sep 13, 2023

It varies a lot from one month or even year to the next. I have one very regular direct client (a regional organization for whom I have been translating twice a year a lot of documents and reports for the plenary meetings since 1989). Then there are 3 or 4 who come back from time to time (the not so regulars) and the one-offs. The not so regulars usually have huge projects that keep me busy for a while, I completed one of those last month...

[Edited at 2023-09-13 08:21 GMT]

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neilmac
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Spain
Local time: 15:27
Spanish to English
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All of it Sep 13, 2023

My circumstances are that I sort of phased into translation work from TEFL, and my clients eventually came to me by word of mouth. I've never worked a lot with agencies, perhaps 4 or 5 over the past couple of decades, but now I only occasionally work with one of them, based in Barcelona, although I haven't done anything for them for over a year.

[Edited at 2023-09-13 08:24 GMT]
 


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