How was your translation job?

Silverobama

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Around two months ago, a friend of mine, Sam, asked me if I knew someone who understood the native language of Kazakhstan and I suddenly thought of a woman Nana who I had known. She was a student in a local university, studying Chinese here. She's from Kazakhstan. I told Nana that Sam was looking for a translator and wonder if Nana was interested in it. Nana said yes and I gave the contact number of Sam to Nana. Since then, we didn't talk with each other (because we both are busy.) Today I bumped into Nana on the street and I asked her:

How was the translation going?

Is my question natural?

Edited: changing letters to names.
 
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It's neither grammatical or natural because you've mixed tenses.


Depending upon whether she's still translating or not, you could use one of the following:
"How's the translation (job) going?"
"How was the translation (job)?'
"How'd the translation (job) go?"
 

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