ooh well done becoming a free lance translator and making a good living :) i think in the end it's just about how much work you can do quicker and quicker... it takes practice. it can be really daunting to keep on working on translation. i guess being interested in the topic that we're ...
i totally agree with you actually. my younger brothers actually went to 'english-speaking' kindergarten. they then went to indonesian-speaking elementary school (SD) in which they struggled a bit more than the other kids. so they had to go to international schools to actually get good ...
i think if you want to pass your toefl writing test in flying colours, you really need to work on more complex grammars because that's where they think you can connect ideas and make logical order of your thoughts. once you mastered that, increasing some important vocabs on certain topics wo...