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Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 21:13
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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How much? 0 Apr 14

I haven’t invested money in my CPD for some time. Let’s say that my work is my CPD. Experience has been my main teacher! Over the years, I have attended a few conferences and webinars, but I must say that I have been disappointed time and again as the information provided could often be summarised onto one sheet of paper. I attended a summer university course in 2017 to learn about specific features of neologisms formation.

P.S. I have been learning Dutch by myself leisurely, b... See more
I haven’t invested money in my CPD for some time. Let’s say that my work is my CPD. Experience has been my main teacher! Over the years, I have attended a few conferences and webinars, but I must say that I have been disappointed time and again as the information provided could often be summarised onto one sheet of paper. I attended a summer university course in 2017 to learn about specific features of neologisms formation.

P.S. I have been learning Dutch by myself leisurely, but it has nothing to do with CPD. My first granddaughter is married to a Flemish and although he speaks a very good English, I’d love to surprise them and learn how to say a few words in Dutch, if only to contradict the Portuguese proverb “old donkeys don't learn languages”… ▲ Collapse


Iulia Parvu
Christopher Schröder
Dan Lucas
Ana Vozone
Lieven Malaise
Liena Vijupe
Michele Fauble
 
Iulia Parvu
Iulia Parvu  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:13
Member (2022)
English to Romanian
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100 to 500 Apr 15

And that's only because I count the ProZ membership as "professional development"

Gianni Pastore
Aitor Salaberria
Angie Garbarino
Zea_Mays
 
Ana Vozone
Ana Vozone  Identity Verified
Local time: 21:13
Member (2010)
English to Portuguese
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100 to 500 Apr 15

Sometimes I attend webinars when they are relevant to my areas of translation. They are occasionally free.

The question probably could have been "How much time and money do you invest in professional development each year?". I "invest" time watching programs (on TV) and reading about themes that are interesting to me, in French and English mostly.

Liena Vijupe
Angie Garbarino
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 22:13
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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0 Apr 15

My everyday work is my professional development. I'm a technology adapter, but I won't attend any courses or webinars for it. I've learnt to use DeepL to my advantage, but it was all on-the-job self-learning. In my personal situation learning and professional development events are a waste of precious time.

Anne Maclennan
Alex Lichanow
expressisverbis
Christopher Schröder
 
Anton Konashenok
Anton Konashenok  Identity Verified
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:13
French to English
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What about negative amounts? Apr 15

Some of us get paid for providing professional development courses to others...

Angie Garbarino
Christopher Schröder
Christine Andersen
 
Philippe Etienne
Philippe Etienne  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 22:13
Member
English to French
Learning by doing Apr 15

When I don't do, I compulsorily read man-made content, screen-based and printed, in both of my languages in all areas I'm interested in, including no area.

The other night on my terrasse while looking for sleep, I heard three stationary day birds talking at various distances, which is unusual at night. I thought machines and neural networks could be used to sample bird chirping, create a virtual Rosetta stone in Bird language only and find out why they sometimes sound so cheesed off... See more
When I don't do, I compulsorily read man-made content, screen-based and printed, in both of my languages in all areas I'm interested in, including no area.

The other night on my terrasse while looking for sleep, I heard three stationary day birds talking at various distances, which is unusual at night. I thought machines and neural networks could be used to sample bird chirping, create a virtual Rosetta stone in Bird language only and find out why they sometimes sound so cheesed off or so excited replying to each other.

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Dan Lucas
Dan Lucas  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:13
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Inter-Species Phonetic Alphabet for Transcribing Animal Sounds Apr 15

Philippe Etienne wrote:
I thought machines and neural networks could be used to sample bird chirping, create a virtual Rosetta stone in Bird language only and find out why they sometimes sound so cheesed off or so excited replying to each other.

That process has begun, logically enough, with an alphabet to transcribe the sounds.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03269

Dan

Philippe Etienne
 


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