I've had a few days like that. Only... well, you couldn't call me 100% "competent", but rather "in training" as a manufacturing interpreter at my last job? I didn't mind them correcting my Japanese, not at all, especially with all those manufacturing terms. But there was this one Japanese guy who would take my assignments from me and translate them himself (despite having engineering stuff to do), using BabelFish and such. And then later, American workers would approach me with this fellow's translations and ask me to make sense of them. =__=;
Things like that really made me appreciate those who'd give me a chance and then point out where I'd made a mistake. (It's rather amazing how much you can learn, even without having officially studied kanji.) And it made me feel really guilty, too, despite my annoyance with him. I kept wanting to become more competent, so he'd not have to worry about it... but how could I? :/
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Date: 2005-07-31 06:09 am (UTC)Things like that really made me appreciate those who'd give me a chance and then point out where I'd made a mistake. (It's rather amazing how much you can learn, even without having officially studied kanji.) And it made me feel really guilty, too, despite my annoyance with him. I kept wanting to become more competent, so he'd not have to worry about it... but how could I? :/