Working at Japanese offices for an outsider is not easy. An outsider is always assisted by an interpreter. ( a mediator, who is conversant in both Japanese and English).
There was no interpreter helping me yesterday evening. This Japanese guy was trying to ask me this question. ” Can you tell me the current temperature on that device ? “. I was supposed to reply ” No, we cannot read the temperature until the next software update”. Simple Isn’t it ?.
We took almost half an hour to understand each other. He would type in something in his phone in Japanese and convert into english. Show it to me. I try telling him, we can’t. After figuring out he can’t even make out what am trying to say, I used this translator page. And it worked. Imagine, two human beings face to face, but talking in text. Book mark it.
Posted on March 5th, 2009 at 10:11 pm by A T M
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