Friday, May 27, 2011

I should think before I talk

What was I thinking? A few weeks ago I visited the Zürich cancer fund, and they told me about a new project in Winterthur, involving a meeting place for people affected by cancer.

The brochure they had was only in German, and I might have volunteered to help them translate it into English.

Had a go at it yesterday, and realized how very very very different those languages are. I can read German without much problems these days, but the sentence structure is so far from English, you cannot imagine.

So really, what was I thinking? Neither of these languages are my mother tongue. Help!

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