Hi Steve, I'm new here, congratulations for your website and your deeds!

I have a curiosity:

You knows English (native), German and Spanish
If someone asks to you translate something by German to Spanish
Your mind, brain, works translating directly or before it need pass through your native language?

German---->Spanish...or
German---->Ensglish---->Spanish

Thank you

Hi Sergio,

I think I mostly go directly in to the language. I have been in situations where I have had to translate for English, French, Japanese, and Chinese speakers at one table. It just goes directly, not through English.

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In general, when a person translates or interprets, they take in the meaning of the language they receive and use another language to communicate that same meaning. The intermediate step between what comes in and what comes is not another language but a conceptual stage where the meaning is analyzed into concepts that can then be rendered with another linguistic system.

Mind you, I'm only saying this from experience, not from research.