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What is common in your field but shocks outsiders? Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language. It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.

I once applied for a position at a videogame localization company (didn't get the job) and they had the two jobs separated. Native speakers in the source language to translate for basic meaning & to answer any questions and native speakers in the target language to write & edit the script.