Originally posted by Bosse de NageMy rent is €300 pcm, for a room in a flat. It's just the food prices that amaze me, organic Italian rice is cheaper in England than in Italy, when the variety I buy is grown less than an hour from here. 🙄
What sort of rent do you pay? Life in South Africa is not cheap. (Cape Town being the worst: you can halve that 800 euros here).
Now that you mention it Italian companies offer less for translation than any other European firms I've dealt with.
I've done translation too, usually into Italian rather than from it, for students who can't afford to pay the going rates. €40 a page?! Come on. I ask them €5. It's not that they need perfect Italian. They just need to understand the text for their studies.
Originally posted by PalynkaThat's correct. Even if I hadn't grown up without TV, I wouldn't have had much opportunity to hear English. Here in Norway, that's completely different. From the little I have seen (I still don't have a TV), I would guess that about half of the TV programs here are in English with Norwegian subtitles.
Germans dub most of their films and tv shows while most Dutch and Scandinavian countries don't (I think).
I had English in school from grade 7 to grade 10. That's much less than most Germans have, though. It was enough to learn the basics, and then I learned by reading, writing and thinking in English. I also worked in Northern Ireland for three months and have visited the UK and US a few times.
