3 Your language skills

When we looked at the profile of different translators, you may remember that some of them mentioned that they spend some time reading, or watching TV or films in their second language. In spite of working daily with their languages, translators usually devote some time during their week to keeping up their language skills. In this section, you are going to look at the language skills needed to be a translator, and find out more about what translators do to keep up their language skills.