Poll: Where are you currently based? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Where are you currently based?".
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Very interesting. The great of majority of translators is based in Europe, but most of the time, clients want to impose non-European prices.
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| The poll should stay on for 24 hours | Feb 12 |
Or about one Earth revolution.
Otherwise, some time zones and regions could be under-represented.
Philippe
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I have been living in Portugal (my home country) since September 2015, before that I lived in Belgium for 30 years. All my professional life as a translator has been based in Europe. I was based in Africa (Angola) for a few years, but by then my translator's life hadn't started yet...
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Nicholas Boline 
Sjedinjene Američke Države
Local time: 07:25
Member (2023)
Spanish to English
Surely the massive preponderance of folks based in Europe must be due to the fact that it's mid afternoon there but only 10 AM in North and South America?
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 13:25
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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I think I must be based on Mars today... just because of all the 503 errors, bugs, Proz subscription problems and overly sensitive people just because I spotted a terrible mistranslation in Kudoz.
Yes, definitely Mars 😂
I need to laugh, because laughter is the best medicine.
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Vanessa Dias
Brazil
Local time: 10:25
Member (2022)
English to Portuguese
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[Editada em 2025-02-12 20:40 GMT]
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Zea_Mays
Italija
Local time: 14:25
Member (2009)
English to German
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Are people in the Americas not seeing the poll? Do local servers not work? Or why there are so few participants from there?
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Lingua 5B
Bosna i Hercegovina
Local time: 14:25
Member (2009)
English to Croatian
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The correct data is with ProZ, they know exact % from each region using the site.
We only know about those who read the forums and answer the polls.
However, Europe is indeed a region with the biggest variety of commercial/trade languages needing translation, it has a long tradition of this. Seems like it’ll be lost due to AI.
Other large languages such as Chinese, Hindi, Arabic…not sure. Sometimes demand is bigger in one direction than the other, e.g. ... See more The correct data is with ProZ, they know exact % from each region using the site.
We only know about those who read the forums and answer the polls.
However, Europe is indeed a region with the biggest variety of commercial/trade languages needing translation, it has a long tradition of this. Seems like it’ll be lost due to AI.
Other large languages such as Chinese, Hindi, Arabic…not sure. Sometimes demand is bigger in one direction than the other, e.g. a Chinese translator in the US may have more work than a Chinese translator in China (e.g. US immigration stuff, etc.).
E.g. Africa has a large variety of languages, but many of them are not commercial languages.
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Ikram Mahyuddin
Indonezija
Local time: 20:25
Member (2006)
English to Indonesian
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Indonesia, to be precise.
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In the European Asia/Asian Europe )
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Baran Keki
Turska
Local time: 16:25
Member
English to Turkish
In a powwow with departed linguists... They're all saying "told you AI was gonna f*ck you up one day soon". And how right they were... haven't received a job related email for more than a week now..
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Zea_Mays
Italija
Local time: 14:25
Member (2009)
English to German
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| @ProZ: did you listen? | Feb 13 |
Philippe Etienne wrote:
Or about one Earth revolution.
Otherwise, some time zones and regions could be under-represented.
Philippe
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