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255 months ago

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255 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de   wrote:

Occupation: professional baker

My comment:

or maybe:
apprenticed profession: baker

It's diffcult to convert the German-style descriptions into English (or other languages)

255 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de   wrote:

the apprenticeship to become a baker

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255 months ago

   wrote:

There is no mention of apprenticeship.

255 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de   wrote:

Vocation requiring training

My comment:

in context also: trade requiring training

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255 months ago

   wrote:

Another dictionary pick-and-mix. Vocational is a term widely used in English, but vocation is literary/archaic, and is not used as a synomym for profession.

255 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de   wrote:

Vocation requiring training

My comment:

in context also: trade requiring training

255 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de   wrote:

occupation requiring formal training

My comment:

bakers in Germany are apprenticed for 3 years, during which time they spend a few hours a week in a vocational school and most of the time working in a bakery.

My references:

my father is a baker!

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255 months ago

   wrote:

Occupation that requires training http://dict.leo.org/?search=Ausbildungsberuf&searchLoc=0&relink=on&spellToler=standard§Hdr=on&tableBorder=1&cmpType=relaxed&lang=en

255 months ago

   wrote:

Yep. Sadly, quite unwieldy in English, but sometimes that's how it works.

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