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Translating as a practice method
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Arekkusu
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Message 17 of 19

20 April 2011 at 6:21pm | IP Logged

In the presence of a language partner, I like to take a bilingual text and translate it orally into my L2 on the fly. Together, we then try to improve on what I've said. Finally, we peek to see what the original translators did and it's interesting to find new vocabulary and ways to express the same thing.

This is also a perfect way to verify that the sentences I produce are generally correct, or if my mistakes simply go uncorrected.
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namsskogan
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20 April 2011 at 10:28pm | IP Logged

Here is some links to earlier discussions about translation on this forum:

Stop
translating in head

Still
translating in my head

Edited by namsskogan on 20 April 2011 at 10:29pm
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crafedog
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21 April 2011 at 3:32am | IP Logged

namsskogan wrote:

Here is some links to earlier discussions about translation on this
forum:

Stop
translating in head

Still
translating in my head

Thanks but I'm talking more about Translation as a deliberate effort/learning method
rather than a bad habit. Especially when using written texts (L1 to L2) as as a base as
Arekkusu (probably spelt that wrong) mentioned above.

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