I am originally from Ecuador, in my native country I learnt English between the ages of 15 and 18, studied Portuguese for 5 years, and when I immigrated to Switzerland in 1998, I learnt German and Italian. In Switzerland I worked from 2004 until 2023 as a sworn translator for the police and courts in various cantons of the country.

The translations were from German into the other languages mentioned here and vice versa. A very interesting job which gave me above all a complex understanding of the language and its nuances. Learning a language is more than grammar, it is about understanding its music and culture.
Behind every language there is a culture, a meaning. There is no word for word translation, there is the global understanding of the language, and the capacity that you can develop to handle it in a wide and correct way.