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Literature translators can sometimes be considered one of the least appreciated professions in the world. We read foreign books and praise the author for his style of writing while in reality we are reading the effect of somebody else’s hard work – a translator whose name we usually do not notice, even if it appears […]
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The Spicy City Bier, Lederhosn, Weisswurst – Germany. Ever since Germany was officially reunited in 1990, stereotypes of beer-drinking, sausage eating, football loving, sometimes seemingly rude and direct speaking blonde-haired people, who all live in Munich or Berlin and using unnecessary complex sentence structures, have always been a constant in the international mind. It must
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Viele Studenten stellen sich diese Frage: welche sind die schwierigsten Sprachen zu erlernen? Eine offizielle Rangliste von denen existiert leider nicht. Nichtsdestotrotz wurden viele Forschungen uber dieses Thema betrieben und dazu existieren zahlreiche Webseiten und Publikationen, die sich mit dieser Frage beschaftigen. Naturlich spielt die eigene Muttersprache eine wichtige Rolle in diesem Bereich. Es ist
Die schwierigsten Sprachen zu erlernen Read More »
Pronto tendremos en las grandes pantallas la ultima entrega de la aclamada saga Mad Max y por ello en Translit hemos decidido dedicar un articulo de Lost in translation al mundo de la ciencia ficcion y, como no al uso del lenguaje en dichas peliculas. En la ciencia ficcion hasta los mas peque De ese
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Quando un documento audiovisivo, un film, un telefilm, un documentario o come in questo caso un cartone animato, deve essere adattato per raggiungere paesi linguisticamente e culturalmente differenti da quelli per i quali e stato realizzato, la traduzione gioca un ruolo fondamentale sia nella diffusione sia nel successo del documento. Tuttavia, la traduzione audiovisiva non
Gli Aristogatti: nomi propri e traduzione Read More »
How many of you have heard of “Esperanto”, an international language? Not many, I suppose. Let me tell you what it is: Esperanto is an artificial language. This means it was created on purpose, and it is not the natural consequence of the evolution of any communication system. Was it the first attempt to create
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Are you a foreigner living in Ireland? Are you planning your holiday or business trip to one of the friendliest countries in the world? Here is a compilation of useful tips on how to behave in order not to insult the Irish who will probably be the loveliest people you have ever met. Greeting: handshake
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Successo, una parola particolare ad esser sinceri, poiche di successo ella stessa: e qualcosa di cui tutti parlano, che tutti vogliono. Sin da bambini almeno una volta abbiamo detto ai genitori
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By some known as a poet, by others as a translator or a dissident – he was all of these things. Stanislaw Baranczak defied censorship in the communist Poland, wrote poems and essays which were clearly anti-establishment at the time. He lost his job as a teacher in Poland when he helped to found the
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Everybody knows the Thousand and One Nights. Not many people are aware of the long and varied story hidden inside its pages. As many oral-transmitted texts, the Thousand and One Nights is a composite work. The frame story, along with the first and more ancient core of tales, came from India and Persia. This part
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