dear andrew, i was very glad to hear from you. i haven't written for ages because of my school activities. now i want to tell you about my native city volgograd. it’s very large and the most beautiful city i have ever seen. i really enjoy the museum - panorama, where a guide tells everybody about stalingrad battle. it is very interesting and unforgettable. we ride a boat along the great russian river the volga. there is a famous mamaev kurgan and a beautiful embankment in volgograd. there are many cinemas and theatres in my city too. the hotel "volgograd" is one of the most beautiful hotel of the city. jor city is worse visiting. come to my place and see how amazing it is. we’ll walk or ride a bus round the city to see all the attractions and sightseeing.
that's enough for me today. i have to go now. best regards to your family. write soon. yours alex
my favourite profession
when i started to learn english and realized that i enjoyed it i decided that after finishing school i would learn to become a translator. i used to imagine myself translating fascinating novels from english into russian while sitting in my study with lots of dictionaries on the bookshelves around.
i love learning and i think that translators are people who learn all their lives. they translate fiction, documents of all sorts, business letters, advertisements, web-site contents. variety is one of the best things about translation: every day translators do something different, unlike some jobs where people deal with the same things every day. i also like the fact that translators have the time to look up words and form the best sentence they can — as opposed to interpreters who have very little time and cannot use dictionaries or other reference materials. i would like to be a translator of fiction because i want to introduce russian-speaking people to great stories written in english. i already know that translators usually translate texts into their native language and they must be able to write well in it, so i make every effort to learn russian well and i read a lot. besides, i am introverted and i think it will not be difficult for me to work on my computer for long periods of time. one more advantage of this job is that it can be done remotely.
i believe that this profession fits my personality and i hope to do my best to become a good translator.
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