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The Hidden Translator's Rise Part 2. Completed English dubbed
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00:00something scarlet you went too far this time faking evidence to falsely accuse a colleague
00:06is a serious violation scarlet your position as the department leader is revoked immediately mr
00:11white also your year-end performance rating will be downgraded by one level if anything like this
00:15happens again your employment will be terminated immediately annie are you happy now scarlet from
00:20beginning to end you were the one causing trouble for me i never went after you first because your
00:24very existence is a rotation you speak eight language and you hit it for three years you
00:29made my seven years of hard work look like a joke
00:35on the surface no one in the translation department said much but the group chat had completely blown
00:41up she should have been removed ages ago her translation skills were just average she only
00:47got there through connections you guys didn't know every translation she submitted had been corrected
00:52by annie what i am serious i have seen the proof peating records then how many has annie corrected
01:00over the past three years a conservative estimate over a hundred
01:13excuse me which one of you is annie me hello i am victoria hayes a producer at harbor light media
01:23we are preparing a large-scale international documentary project and we need a multi-linguished
01:29translation consultant how did you find me industry recommendation the crown well project and the
01:35french brand project you worked on recently have attracted some attention in the field
01:38harbor light media a top teen production company mrs hayes what kind of project is it exactly a
01:44documentary about the strait of garot and global trade we need simultaneous interpretation and
01:49subtitle proof feeding across five languages english french italian spanish and arabic we contacted
01:56three translation companies but none of them could provide one person who covers all five languages
02:02then someone told me that white global has a girl who speaks eight languages who told you that
02:07louie anderson he is one of the investors in this project louie anderson again what is the consulting
02:13fee for this project fifty thousand dollars a month the estimated period is three months one hundred
02:18and fifty thousand dollars that is about six years of my salary at white global if you take it
02:23you will need to travel for two months the middle east and europe
02:35a bank account in zurich a property in munich and a small apartment in the 16th compartment of paris
02:42the total value was close to 10 million dollars language was the thing my parents loved most in their
02:48lives my mother used to say language is the best bridge my father said if you can understand a
02:57person in their mother tongue you can understand their heart they carved the languages of the world
03:03into my blood then they left so i hid those languages away along with my memories of them because
03:11every time i speak one of those languages i remember what they looked like when they were by my side
03:16teaching
03:16it to me german was in berlin my dad taught it to me while taking me for ice cream in
03:22front of the
03:22brandsberg gate french was in paris my mother read maupus so to me in the original french by the san
03:31arabic was in cairo the three of us were on a boat on the nile
03:37my father counted the stars while teaching me how to say wahid ethwan flatha every language was a memory
03:44and i didn't want to open those memories but i
03:52has mrs hayes from harbor light reached out to you she has why did you introduce this to me because
04:00you need to step out of it you do not know me i know your parents were diplomats i know
04:07your background
04:09you investigated me before i decide who to work with i learn about them
04:15annie your parents were remarkable people you do not need to lock yourself in a corner just to escape their
04:22shadow
04:24go take a look at harbor lights project the strait of jurada the bridge between europe and africa maybe you
04:30should see it for yourself
04:37maybe he was right
04:42mr white i need to take two months off
04:46for what a documentary project wants me as a translation sultan i need to travel to the middle
04:51east and europe two months what about crownwell's project i have already completed all the translation
04:57drafts for crownwell's second phase the third phase will not start until three months later are you
05:01resigning i will come back fine i will approve two months for you thank you
05:11scarlet scarlet had plus been transferred to administration as a clerk the old shine was gone
05:16you are going on a business trip for how long two months you know when i joined the white seven
05:22years
05:23ago i only spoke one language too later i learned french and spanish while working here i went from
05:29intern to the department leader i thought i had worked really hard you did work hard but without
05:36doing anything you were already above me eight languages what gives you the right my parents they
05:42paid for it with their lives
05:47that was the last time we spoke in this building at the airport i unexpectedly ran into someone louie
05:53anderson he was wearing casual clothes it was the first time i had ever seen him out of a suit
05:58annie what are you doing here crownwell has business in dubai what a funny coincidence yeah what a coincidence
06:10business class is pretty empty why are you sitting here i bought an economy ticket
06:16about the inheritance your parents left you you even know about that the law firm has worked with
06:22us before attorney wills once mentioned a client who refused to inherit an estate the industry is only
06:27so big so the whole world knows not the whole world just me caring about it i turned to look
06:32at
06:32him and my heart skipped a beat the sunlight in dubai was completely different from back home dry
06:37fierce almost as if it could burn straight through your shadow so you are annie the one who speaks
06:42eight languages yes let's do a test translate a section for me first martin handed me an arabic
06:47interview outline okay i'm annie smith a junior translator at white global trading coeliti i've been
06:53here three years and make 24 000 a year finally she is the one she is better than those three
07:00translation companies combined martin she has not even given us a quote yet no need it's her the
07:08first stop was the antique market in old dubai the documentary was going to cover how the strait
07:13of hormas connects global trade there was a persian carpet shop here that had been open for 40 years
07:19years and the owner was a third generation iranian merchant in ten minutes the hajita araba
07:24shaifaka anna taalmounaha fil qaliora are you up kinta saikina fiqal qara sawida
07:32la haja tilqara fila haraihanal saw to jamil awi
07:42in casablanca i interviewed a historian in french the detroit de blolort n'est pas
07:47simplement un passage maritain mais une forme de dialogue les personnes excitements et
07:51cultures jors asatru bien qu'elles parlent de valdena ferriant barlota comare et in etovit
07:55he said on the street of giraldi shipping and trade are a way of having a dialogue people may come
08:00from
08:01different backgrounds and speak different languages but their hearts are connected my voice but their
08:06hearts was a little halsea because my father had said almost the exact same thing okay that night
08:13the team had dinner at the hotel annie mr anderson asked whether your work went smoothly today it went
08:20smoothly no need to worry about me mr anderson asked me to tell you that he is in the office
08:25on the 58th floor of this hotel if you need anything contact him anytime
08:32hello
08:34have you eaten i am eating now the food here may not really suit our taste
08:40if you want something else mr anderson why are you telling me this
08:45because i care about you i do not need your concern thank you
08:49okay no more concern good night over the next two weeks we went a lot of places
08:54on the flight from istanbul to cairo i received an email sender scarlet subject no subject
09:00after you left they laid off the french team and the german team because brian white said you
09:06alone would enough seven people lost their jobs because of you are you happy now i looked at the
09:12email and deleted it do not believe scarlet the french and german teams were cut because they were
09:17already at the bottom in performance it has nothing to do with you she is just trying to mess with
09:22you
09:22i know are you okay i am fine
09:30cairo the third stop of the documentary i lived here for a while
09:37when the plane landed i looked out at that familiar city and my heart started beating a little faster
09:42in cairo the team was filming a section about the history of trade between the middle east and europe
09:49they needed arabic interpretation
09:55they needed to be a part of the country and the other one is in the river
10:03is there a provider in cairo the owner of this chaise was a diplomat he died before five years
10:10He is dead.
10:11His daughter holds the suit as a heir, but never is yet.
10:17Do you have any diplomat?
10:21Michael Smith.
10:25Michael Smith.
10:27That was my father's name.
10:32After the interview, I sat alone on the streets of Cairo.
10:36I looked up at the sky. It was gray.
10:41I still remembered the pistachio-flavor ice cream that year.
10:50Hello?
10:51You arrived in Cairo?
10:52Yes.
10:55What happened? Your voice sounds off.
10:59Nothing.
11:00I flew to Cairo this afternoon. If you have time...
11:03Why do you always show up wherever I am?
11:05Because Victoria has your itinerary.
11:07She is running a project I invested in, so I have the right to see it.
11:11That is called stalking.
11:13That is called paying attention.
11:19There is a difference.
11:20The next afternoon, Louie Geranderson went with me to a private warehouse on the outskirts of Cairo.
11:27It was not big, but the temperature and humidity were carefully controlled.
11:31The kind of place used specifically to store antiques.
11:37After the manager opened the door, I saw three full shelves.
11:43Every piece had a handwritten tag hanging on it.
11:48It was my father's handwriting.
11:50An 18th century style Meissen porcelain vase.
11:55Purchased at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, 2008.
12:00With Annie.
12:022008.
12:03I was eight years old in Istanbul with my dad.
12:06He took me to the Grand Bazaar.
12:08I kept asking for Turkish ice cream.
12:10And he said we would go after looking at that little stall.
12:14That stall was selling these old porcelain pieces.
12:16I did not remember any of it.
12:18But my dad did.
12:19For three years, I hid everything about them away.
12:22The languages, the inheritance, the memories.
12:25I thought as long as I did not touch any of it, I could pretend they had never left.
12:30But they had always been with me.
12:33Your father was an extraordinary man.
12:37I know.
12:40Then you should become someone extraordinary too.
12:42Instead of hiding yourself in a position far below your level.
12:49That night, I called Attorney Wills.
12:52Attorney Wills, I will handle the inheritance.
12:55Miss Smith, finally.
12:57Donate the Xur accounts and the properties according to the original plan.
13:00But I am keeping the porcelain collection in Cairo.
13:03Understood.
13:03That is wonderful.
13:04I will arrange it right away.
13:05One more thing.
13:06Go ahead.
13:07Did my father leave any letter or document for me?
13:10Not a legal document.
13:11Something personal.
13:13Yes.
13:13A letter.
13:14He noted that it should be given to you when you came to collect the antiques.
13:17Send it to me.
13:19Attorney Wills sent the letter to my hotel.
13:22I sat in my room for ten minutes before finally working up the courage to open the letter.
13:27The letter was not long.
13:29Annie.
13:30When you see this letter your mother and I should no longer be by your side.
13:34Knowing your personality I guess you will probably run away for a while.
13:37You may seal away the memories connected to us.
13:40Along with all those languages.
13:41Maybe it is because every language is tied to us.
13:44One sentence in German will remind you of landscape in Berlin.
13:47One sentence in Arabic will remind you of the stars in Cairo.
13:51But Annie.
13:52Language is not a chain.
13:53Language is wings.
13:55Your mother spent her life building bridges.
13:56I spent mine planting seeds.
13:58You are that bridge and seed.
13:59Don't shrink yourself into the dark.
14:01You are exceptional.
14:02You are smart, gifted.
14:03And you should do what you are really good at.
14:04Trying to plant seeds in your own way.
14:06You are our pride.
14:07Mom and dad will always love you.
14:09There was a water stain on the paper.
14:11I did not know whether he left it when he wrote the letter or whether I had just left it.
14:15My dad was right.
14:16Language is not a chain.
14:17It is wings.
14:22In Madrid, I interviewed a flamenco dancer in Spanish.
14:26Each language has its own rhythm.
14:29Once your body remembers it, you will never forget it.
14:32She says every language has its own rhythm.
14:35I wrote that sentence down in my translation notes.
14:38The final stop was Venice.
14:40Omar, the Arab old bookseller.
14:43He had his own antique bookshop in the best spot on the busiest square in Venice.
14:49He was in his 60s and had lived in Italy for 30 years.
14:53And the story of him moved me the most.
15:09What happened after that?
15:12Then I had 10 years to speak Italian, and over the 10 years to make sure that everyone on that
15:17road would call me Lord Omar.
15:20The language does not only serve only tradition.
15:22It is the way in which you can respect it.
15:27Keep this part, original audio with subtitles.
15:35Annie, your translation almost made me cry.
15:38In Venice, I completed the final three interviews in Italian.
15:42Two months, two continents, and eight languages.
15:46My dad was right.
15:48Language is not a chain.
15:50It is wings.
15:56The day I came back, it was late December.
16:01New York's winter was cold, but the air carried a familiar scent.
16:07Annie, the director position in the translation department is open.
16:11I want you to take it.
16:16What is the salary?
16:18$200,000.
16:20Okay.
16:21And just like that, in less than half a year, I went from a junior role to the director of
16:26the translation department.
16:29On the day I officially took the role, I stood in the meeting room and made a speech to the
16:34people in the translation department.
16:39I know many of you have questions about me.
16:44Why does someone who hid for three years suddenly get to become director?
16:51I am not going to explain.
16:53From today on, results will do the talking.
16:56I will personally proofread everyone's translation drafts.
16:59I have only one standard, accuracy.
17:01If you cannot do it, I will teach you.
17:03If you still cannot do it after that, you will be replaced.
17:06That is strict.
17:09Translation is not a word game.
17:11One wrong number in a trade contract can mean tens of millions in losses.
17:15Strictness is the bare minimum.
17:22Hello?
17:23Director Smith, congratulations on the promotion.
17:26$200,000?
17:28Mm-hmm.
17:28I offered $400,000 before.
17:30I know.
17:31Still not considering it?
17:32Not for now.
17:33But thank you for all your help.
17:34The offer, the Harborlight Media Project that day in Cairo.
17:37You don't need to thank me.
17:38Those weren't favors.
17:40Then what were they?
17:40Things I wanted to do.
17:42Are you free this weekend?
17:44For what?
17:46Dinner.
17:47No work, no projects.
17:49Okay.
17:50He was driving a very ordinary gray sedan.
17:53Not the kind of luxury car I had imagined.
17:55Your car doesn't really match your status.
17:57Cars are for driving, not for showing off.
17:59I'm taking you to a Japanese restaurant.
18:01It only has eight seats.
18:04You're paying?
18:05Obviously.
18:07This place has the best sashimi in the whole city.
18:10How do you know?
18:11I've tried every Japanese restaurant in the city.
18:16This man.
18:18Annie, I'm going to be direct.
18:19Since that day in Cairo, or maybe even earlier, since the first time you spoke German at Crownwell, I...
18:25You what?
18:26I knew you were someone I didn't want to miss.
18:29Right now, you're the only person in my mind.
18:33You really are way too...
18:35Too what?
18:36Too direct.
18:36You don't like it?
18:37I didn't say I didn't like it.
18:43That night, he drove me home.
18:45Downstairs, he said...
18:46I'm flying to South Korea for a business tryst tomorrow.
18:50How long?
18:51A week.
18:52Okay.
18:53Will you miss me?
18:55No.
18:56Liar.
18:58Maybe a little.
19:06No.
19:09Over the next three months, many things happened at once.
19:13The Crownwell Project successfully completed its third phase.
19:17And White Global brought in nearly $80 million in revenue from it.
19:23When Brian White reviewed the monthly report, he said to Alex Wood...
19:27We should have put Annie on it from the start.
19:31After Scarlett resigned from White Global, she became a director at a small translation company.
19:37Three months later, that company faced had its mass tariff of compensation claim.
19:41A German contract had its tariff clauses mistranslated, causing the client to lose $20 million.
19:48That translation was done by Scarlett herself.
19:51Her problem with German honoratis had finally been exposed on a bigger stage.
19:56When the news reached White Global, some people started mocking her in the group chat.
20:02I only said one thing.
20:03Stop talking about it.
20:06Everyone has to take responsibility for their own choices.
20:20Hello?
20:21Annie?
20:22It's Uncle George, your father's old colleague.
20:25Uncle George?
20:27I saw you on TV.
20:28Translation consultant in five languages.
20:31Annie, your parents must be so proud of you in heaven.
20:33Uncle George, how did you see...
20:35You look exactly like Michael.
20:37And your Arabic, that Cairo accent of your father's, I recognized it the moment I heard it.
20:41Annie, before your father passed away, he said something to me.
20:45What did he say?
20:47Annie will become a better bridge than I ever was.
20:50That night, Louie Anderson came back from South Korea and went straight to my building.
20:56Come out.
20:58For what?
20:59Want to take a walk with you.
21:04The street was cold, and the street lights stretched our shadows long across the pavement.
21:10I watched the documentary.
21:12How was it?
21:14Not good enough for your translation.
21:16The director was average.
21:17Don't say that about Martin.
21:19But your parts were excellent.
21:21You weren't just translating in the interview, you were carrying the emotion across.
21:26My father once said if you understand someone's mother tongue, you can understand their heart.
21:31You did that.
21:34We walked for a long time until we reached a river.
21:37Annie.
21:39Yeah?
21:40Crownwell is setting up an international cultural exchange department next year.
21:43We'll focus on crossword cultural projects, documentaries, publishing, exhibitions, forums.
21:47I need someone to lead it.
21:48You're trying to poach me again.
21:49I'm not poaching you.
21:50I'm building a position for you.
21:53What do you mean?
21:54You're not meant to be just a translator.
21:56Translation is a tool, and you should use that tool to do something bigger.
22:00Your father's porcelain collection could become an exhibition about the history of global trade.
22:04Use your eight languages to tell that story to the world.
22:06What's the salary?
22:07Name your price.
22:09You don't think I'm taking advantage of you?
22:11Then let me take advantage of you.
22:13What?
22:13Be my girlfriend.
22:15No salary needed.
22:17Louie!
22:18I'm joking.
22:19One million dollars a year, plus project dividends.
22:22But the girlfriend part is serious, too.
22:25The streetlight fell across his face, softening cold lines he usually carried.
22:32Two days later, I gave him my answer.
22:35I said yes to both.
22:37Brian White personally walked me to the entrance.
22:40Annie, you are the most underestimated employee in White Globals history.
22:44Mr. White, you also gave me the opportunity.
22:47You earned that opportunity yourself.
22:51Speaking of which, what I said in German at the annual meeting.
22:54The 70% raise?
22:56You understood it back then, didn't you?
22:59I did.
23:00Then why didn't you...
23:01Forget it.
23:02I wish you all the best.
23:05Three years.
23:07Three years.
23:08A $24,000 salary.
23:09A junior level position.
23:11I had repaid what needed to be repaid.
23:14It was time to start over.
23:21Crownwell's International Cultural Exchange Department was officially established.
23:26I became its first director.
23:28The first project is an international touring exhibition.
23:31The core exhibits are the 40 Blubber antiques my father collected from around the world.
23:39The exhibition will open simultaneously in five cities.
23:43Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul, Paris, and New York.
23:48I'll personally translate the narration for each city into the local language.
23:53On opening day, more than 300 people came to the New York venue.
23:57Uncle George stood in the exhibition hall, looking at my father's handwritten labels on the Portland pieces, tears streaming down
24:04his face.
24:06Michael, your daughter made it.
24:13Annie, how about turning this exhibition into a second season of the documentary?
24:19We can talk about it.
24:21I told you, you were never just a translator.
24:26Louie Anderson stood in the corner of the exhibition hall, staying away from the front.
24:30He was wearing a black suit, hands in my pockets, watching me give interviews under the spotlight.
24:35That look in his eyes.
24:36You are someone I didn't want to miss.
24:46Mrs. Smith, you are fluent in eight languages, but I heard you spent three years as a junior translator at
24:51a trading company, making only $24,000 a year.
24:56Yes.
24:57Why did you hide your abilities?
25:00Because I was running away.
25:03Every language was tied to memories of my parents.
25:06I thought if I hid them away, it would stop hurting.
25:10But later I realized that languages do not disappear just because you refuse to speak them.
25:14They stay in your blood, waiting for you to speak.
25:17What finally made you decide to speak up?
25:21A letter.
25:23My father wrote it.
25:24He said if I have the ability to make a difference, I should use it.
25:28On the second day of the exhibition, someone unexpected showed up.
25:33Scarlett.
25:35What are you doing here?
25:38I saw it on the news.
25:40Your father collected these?
25:42Yes.
25:44They are beautiful.
25:46Annie, I owe you an apology.
25:49You do not have to.
25:50Let me speak.
25:52I was jealous of you.
25:53I had been jealous since the first time you opened your mouth and spoke German.
25:57It took me seven years to climb up to Team Leader, but you were already above me without even trying.
26:02I could not accept that.
26:04So you chose to frame me?
26:06Yes.
26:07And then I paid the price.
26:08After I left White Global, that German contract at the translation company, you heard about it, right?
26:13I did.
26:15Because you used to correct my work, I never knew what my real level was.
26:18Once you were not there anymore, I finally realized...
26:20Scarlett, your hard work was real.
26:22Those seven years of German were not wasted either.
26:24You just chose the wrong direction at certain moments.
26:26You two don't hate me?
26:28No.
26:29The forged screenshots are in the past now.
26:33You really are different from before.
26:35Back then, I could not even face myself.
26:38The exhibition is wonderful.
26:40Your father must be very happy.
26:47The exhibition ran for two months across five cities, with more than 120,000 visitors in total.
26:58The exhibition is wonderful.
26:59The exhibition is wonderful.
27:01The exhibition is wonderful.
27:02The exhibition is wonderful.
27:02The exhibition is wonderful.
27:03After the closing ceremony, Louie Anderson found me on the hotel terrace.
27:08Tired?
27:10A little.
27:11Five cities, two months.
27:13You handled all the narration translation work across every language by yourself.
27:17I am used to it.
27:19Do not get used to carrying everything alone.
27:23This is not a proposal, so don't be nervous.
27:27It's custom-made, because you said your father once told you that you were the bridge.
27:33This...
27:34There is a line engraved on the bridge.
27:37It has the word bridge engraved in nine languages.
27:40The ninth language is Russian.
27:42I studied for three months just to learn one word.
27:46The Cairo night wind swept across the terrace.
27:49In the distance, the banks of the Nile were bright with lights.
27:54Louie Anderson, you really are.
27:56What?
27:59Too good at this.
28:03Only with you.
28:11Five years later, Crownwell's international cultural exchange department had become an industry benchmark.
28:17It ran more than 20 cross-cultural projects every year, with revenue exceeding 200 million.
28:22Revenue is up another 30% this year.
28:26Your salary should be adjusted this year.
28:28To how much?
28:30You tell me.
28:32One dollar.
28:35Seriously?
28:36Put the rest into a scholarship to support young people studying languages.
28:41Name it after my parents.
28:42The Michael Smith and Evelyn Chen Language Scholarship.
28:45How do you know my mother's name?
28:47I am your husband.
28:48How could I not know your mother's name?
28:51Outside the window was the skyline of the whole city.
28:54It was no longer that rental apartment with the broken heating.
28:57But sometimes, I still think of that window, and the nights when I crouched there eating soup.
29:03Back then, I was fluent in eight languages, made $2,000 a year, and rejected a $10 million inheritance.
29:09I hid myself in the deepest corner, thinking that as long as I stayed silent, it would not hurt.
29:13In his letter, my father wrote,
29:16Be brave enough to be yourself.
29:19It took me a long time to understand that.
29:22But luckily,
29:24I did it.
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