It is quite hard to like translate for me for my mum and when the person is me, so like the teacher's going to talk about me and then I have to translate about me, so it's quite kind of awkward to do that

It makes you look more mature and grown up and you take responsibility and you kind of learn professionally how to translate and I think your language improves a lot and you kind of learn a lot more about having proper professional conversations with grown-ups.

Watch Translating and me: stories from young translators on YouTube.

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