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Become a translator with me!

Disclaimer I'm from Argentina and even though I am bilingual (if I was not I'd have a problem lol) I'm not used to talking about school in English and there are concepts that maybe don't even exist in English-speaking countries (or I just don't know) so there is no good English word for me to use??? So there may be certain things I'll mention here that you won't understand lol. Y para los lectores hispanohablantes, me temo que la gran mayoría de la indie web está formada por angloparlantes o gente que habla distintos idiomas y su único idioma en común es el inglés, y me da paja escribir esto en dos idiomas lol.

And please take into account that I am in my first year and I learned English by fucking around on the 'puter 10 hours every day since I was 4, all English studying I've done before was 12 years of very shitty regular school and 8 months in an academy (Cambridge says I'm a C1 Advanced tho *shrug*)

Glossary

  • Cursada: the period of time in which you take a course.
  • Parcial: exam given in the middle or towards the end of a cursada.
  • Final: exam given at the end or after a cursada, or an exam you give after you passed the cursada but failed the parciales (mesa de exámen). Teachers can choose between grading you and passing you based on the grade you got in assignments and the grade you got in the parciales, or based on that plus a final exam. Most teachers choose the former because it's easier for everyone.
  • Bedelía: student administration/affairs office

I began my course of studies (English-Spanish Literary and Audiovisual Translation) in March 2026. In my province the school year is separated into two four-month periods, and in the translation course at my school unlike the teachers' course, most subjects only take one period. In my first period I passed 3 subjects: English (general grammar and reading but not Grammar cause that's a different subject), Spanish grammar, and Foundations of Translation, which I had to give a final exam for. I also attended a fourth subject, Phonetics, but I did not pass that one :/ I am reattending it in my second period.

Now, besides Phonetics, I am doing English II, Spanish Grammar II, and Introduction to Cultural Studies, which is the foundation for all of the American and British history and literature subjects we'll take in the future.

By far, the most interesting subjects yet have been Phonetics and Cultural Studies. I already knew most of what we have been seeing in CS, as I consume lots of American and British media and I also did communications in high school so I already had to answer the question What Is Culture for three years lol. Then Phonetics is hard as hell (and my first teacher was kind of an idiot), but it is so, so interesting. The teacher I have now is much, much better, and he makes everything much more interesting and cool-sounding in his explanations. I found out, cause no one had told me or my closer classmates, unlike teachers and technical translator, I have to take up to Phonetics III. I thought only interpreters had to do that, but no, the ones doing literary-audiovisual also have to, becomes Phonetics III focuses on different accents, and both interpreters and audiovisual translators should understand as many English speakers as possible.