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Poll: Has demand in your language pair(s) and field(s) gone up due to the Covid-19 pandemic?
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May 17, 2022

This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Has demand in your language pair(s) and field(s) gone up due to the Covid-19 pandemic?".

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Caroline Liebert
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 21:13
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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No May 17, 2022

Some fields have gone down (a big drop in translation demand from my consumer-goods clients) but others have gone up (a growth in translation demand for Covid-19 related documents). All in all, things balanced out just fine…
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
Belgium
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French to Dutch
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Who knows. May 17, 2022

Who knows? Fact is that I never (apart from the disastrous month of May 2020) noticed any decline in translation requests whatsoever.

[Edited at 2022-05-17 09:22 GMT]

neilmac
Liena Vijupe
Thomas Pfann
Philip Lees
 
Barbara Cochran, MFA
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United States
Local time: 16:13
Spanish to English
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For Literary Translations,.. May 17, 2022

...most definitely gone DOWN due to Covid.

[Edited at 2022-05-18 10:26 GMT]
 
John Silva
John Silva
Brazil
Local time: 17:13
English to Portuguese
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No May 17, 2022

In fact, I don't translate quite often for the medical field, so I would not be able to feel that it had such a demand increase due to the pandemic.
 
Michael Newton
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United States
Local time: 16:13
Japanese to English
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Demand gone up? May 18, 2022

I was recently asked to translate a medical book in Russian entitled: "Diagnostics of Allergies Using Blood Neutrophils". Most likely this had something to do with the pandemic.
 
Thayenga
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Germany
Local time: 22:13
Member (2009)
English to German
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No May 18, 2022

I don't work in any of the Corona related fields. Surely for those of my colleagues who do the demand for translations has increased.

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Kevin Fulton
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United States
Local time: 16:13
German to English
No May 18, 2022

Although I translate articles dealing with medical research, I've had only 4 assignments related to Covid in the past 2 years.
 
Caroline Liebert
Caroline Liebert
Brazil
Local time: 17:13
Portuguese
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No. really i dont take any work with medicals fields. So i can't say if has demand in my language May 19, 2022

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Muriel Vasconcellos
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United States
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Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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Other May 20, 2022

Volume-wise, I'd say that the Covid has accounted for a large share of my work. Another change, to my surprise, has been a preponderance of work from Portuguese (90% so far this year), whereas in the past Spanish accounted for most of the volume. But this is probably related to staffing patterns rather than Covid.
 


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