Translator at work...

Check this very funny video created by a group of Spanish translators (which makes it a very reliable source!).

Enjoy it!

Translation, traduccion.

I have been forwarding interesting blog posts on translation to a couple of students I'm friends with in facebook, and I thought everyone else may be interested, so here they go:

• El Gascón Jurado publishes a link in Spanish to Traducciones de leyes españolas por el ministerio de Justicia
• Legally yours from Spain writes in depth about the same legal translations recently published by the Spanish Ministry of Justice and he does it in English. Read his analysis of the different styles used by  the translators of those documents. 
• La paradoja de Chomsky publishes a very interesting post,¿Dónde me apunto para ser traductor?, about what it really means to be a translator as opposed to knowing two languages and thinking that this qualifies anyone as a professional translator. Read the comments, they are all great!

What is TED Talks?

If you are new to TED Talks, watch this video. Notice that they've already created captions in Spanish (from Mexico, was that you Ailin?), Portuguese, Polish and English. They've been done via the Open Translation Project. Have you joined yet?

TEDxTalks & Spanish

I have told you about TEDXTalks Open Translation Project in previous posts.





















The video above was transalted into Spanish by  Lourdes Cahuich  , who said:

Jill Tarter's TED Prize wish is the best talk I've translated because she inspired me to look beyond my everyday problems and made me look at my life as a human being -- "one possible outcome of billions of years of evolution of Hydrogen and Helium" -- and how the SETI research could change our history.

La charla del deseo TED Prize de Jill Tarter es la mejor charla que he traducido por que ella me inspira a mirar más allá de mis problemas cotidianos y me hace ver mi vida como ser humano como..."un posible resultado de miles de millones de años de evolución del hidrógeno y el helio", y cómo la investigación SETI cambiará nuestra historia. 

You will find Translators from many other languages talking about the videos they have found most inspiring here.

Traductor jurado: fora and blogs as searching tools

Image: 'Courtroom One Gavel'

Last week we were searching for answers in different fora and several of our translation students posed a question about traductor jurado and fedatario.

Check the blog El Gascón Jurado and answer these questions (you will have to go to Acerca de mí):

1. What is Fernado Gascón's job?
2. What is his specialty and why?
3. What is the difference between traductor judicial and traductor jurado?
4. What did he achieve in 2006?
5. What does Adriana Cruz Santacroce ask in relation to the Spanish use of interpreters in court?
6. Why dont' you ask Fernando our jurado/fedatario question? 
7. Alternatively, have a look at my Spanish Translation links and you will find the answer in one of the blogs there. 
8. Don't forget that you can use great search/dictionary websites, like the linguee.