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Introduction to Spanish Translation is designed for a third or fourth year college Spanish course. It presents the history, theory and practice of Spanish-to-English translation (with some consideration of English-to-Spanish translation). The very successful first edition of the text evolved from the author's experiences in two decades of teaching translation in the Department of Language and Foreign Studies of The American University. The emphasis is on general material to be found in current journals and newspapers, although there is also some specialized material from the fields of business, the social sciences, and literature. The twenty-four lessons in the text form the basis for a fourteen-week semester course. This newly revised edition contains an index, a glossary, examples of cognates and partial cognates, and translation exercises for each lesson.
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: UPA; 2 edition (November 16, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761848975
ISBN-13: 978-0761848974
Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 0.5 x 10.1 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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The book presents translation theory and information on the history of translation. It lists proverbs with their translations as well as cognates and false cognates. There's humorous examples of bad translations. Therefore, after reading it, you will know how to evaluate the quality of a translation without having been given much practice in translating. If you're looking for a book on translation theory, this will be a fine introduction. It isn't as good if you need to learn to translate.
Child's text is well conceived and clearly written. It is designed for third or fourth year college students. He comes to the subject as both experienced teacher and practicing translator. Each of the twenty-four lessons is brief and divided into six sections: history of translation, introduction to translation theory, practical problems and translation techniques, cognates, and, finally, proverbs and idioms. What this book does not have are exercises for practice. The book reads well and Childs is generally quite insightful, but other more recent introductions to Spanish/English offer more opportunities for practice.
Of all the textbooks I've ever had, this is one of the most readable. I bought this instead of the second edition that my class required, and when I compared with friends, this is page for page EXACTLY the same as the second edition, page numbers and all, EXCEPT the second edition has exercises in the back. Thankfully, these exercises can be found online free in Google Books. Yay, saving money!
This book is required for a course I recently took. I was happy to find it available for the Kindle (it saves me bookshelf space). I found the information very useful and it does clarify some of the problems with translation..
I thought this book was extremely helpsul. It had a lot of common mistakes and cognates that would aid any student of spanish. We used it as our textbook at Lander University. It includes funny insight and thoughtful critique.
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