Bonjour! In this video, I take you along for a very real “translation crunch day” as I translate a research proposal I originally wrote in English into French for a grad school application. I walk you through what I’m translating, why I’m doing it, and what it actually looks like to sit down, set up my workspace, and just grind through a big language project in one day. I also give you a little graduate student office tour, because that’s genuinely where a lot of my studying/working happens. As I work, I share the resources and habits that help me stay sane during a long translation session—how I structure the document, how I keep terminology consistent, and how I decide when to keep moving versus when to stop and research a phrase. You’ll see a couple progress check-ins, my overall translating strategy, and the moment I finally finish (yes, I celebrate). If you’re learning French, interested in translation, or you just want a cozy “work with me” style vlog with practical language-learning takeaways, this is exactly that.