MyLanguage Website

One of the useful websites listed in our wiki websites document is MyLanguage. It was created by seven State Libraries to provide information in more than 60 languages and on many topics.

It also has links to government bodies, dictionaries, thesaurus, news, and up to six million information links!
This is a video about it in English. You can visit this Youtube page to watch it in different languages. Good for your interpreting and translating skills.

Podcasts: Interpreting

Hi all,

A reminder for all our interpreting students about our Podcasting blog, Let's talk.

You will find interviews that will help you with the topics studied during your interpreting courses.

If you go back and listen to older podcasts, you can listen to a variety of Sydneysiders who speak with a variety of accents about a great many topics.

Most of the recordings are supplemented by a worksheet to give you extra help and practice with the listening, vocabulary, etc.

Remember that you can subscribe to this podcast through itunes and download it onto your ipod.

Have fun!

Medicine: The Virtual Body

"Saline Dreams (painting) "






I came across this very good site that will help you learn the main parts of the human body and what they do. It's called the Virtual Body. The advantage for translators and interpreters is that you can view it in different languages. This site gives you a choice between Spanish and English:

• El Cuerpo Virtual & The Virtual Body
  

Sentence structure & Tuteo

We all know that it is not possible to always translate from one language to another and keep exactly the same word order. Lat week in class we talked about different degrees of correspondence in proverbs and sayings. We could look at different degrees of correspondence in sentence structure.

Compare these sentences:

La mesa es grande The table is big

Pareces cansado

You look tired

Es muy bonita tu casa

Your house is very nice

The degree of correspondence is different for all three sentences. In Spanish we can change the order of a sentence to achieve different effects.

I came across this interesting article on "tuteo".