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    The document provides information about translation skills and accurately translating text from one language to another. It discusses that translation is an art that requires intimate knowledge of both languages. To translate accurately, one must understand the original passage fully and convey the exact meaning and ideas without adding or omitting anything. Some tips given include translating sentences as a whole rather than word-for-word, using simple language, and ensuring the translation reads fluently like the original. A good translation faithfully conveys the full sense and impression of the source text.

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    The document provides information about translation skills and accurately translating text from one language to another. It discusses that translation is an art that requires intimate knowledge of both languages. To translate accurately, one must understand the original passage fully and convey the exact meaning and ideas without adding or omitting anything. Some tips given include translating sentences as a whole rather than word-for-word, using simple language, and ensuring the translation reads fluently like the original. A good translation faithfully conveys the full sense and impression of the source text.

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    Translation

    skills
    For any query
    FELL FREE TO CONTACT ON:
    What is Translation?
    The process of translating words or text from one
    language into another.

    It is the selection of suitable words for same idea


    to convey the exact meaning into another
    language.
    • Translation is an art, like all other arts,
    • it is difficult to master, for it seeks to convey the exact
    meaning of what is expressed in one language into
    another.
    • It requires an intimate knowledge of both the
    languages concerned.
    • We must first be able to understand exactly what is
    intended to be conveyed, and then to express the
    very same thought in the other language.
    •The whole art of translation lies in
    expressing exactly and precisely without
    either omitting thought from the original
    passage or adding any unnecessary or
    superfluous idea to it.
    •The sense and meaning of the Vernacular
    passage in simple, idiomatic English.
    How to translate Accurately:
    • First read/lesson the vernacular passage
    carefully.
    •Marking all such words or phrases as you do
    not clearly understand.

    •Remember that words do not have a fixed


    meaning. They have more than one
    meaning, and you have to find out exactly
    the meaning intended by the writer.
    Right

    •You were right.


    •Make a right turn at the light.
    •Access to clean water is a basic
    human right.
    I just finally
    discovered what’s
    wrong with my
    brain: on the left
    side there is nothing
    right and on the
    right side, there is
    nothing left.
    •In translating try to express as a whole
    the sense of the vernacular passage into
    English,

    •Employing exact English equivalents for


    vernacular words, phrases and idioms.
    May
    •In the month of May.
    •May you succeed.
    •May I come in , Sir.
    •May be : May not be.
    • But avoid literal translation. You are never required to
    give a word-for-word translation. If you do so, you will
    not be able to convey exactly the meaning and
    intention of the writer. We do not think or speak in
    words: we think and speak in sentences. Translate a
    sentence as a whole; do not translate words.
    Word by word translation
    •You are the apple of my eye.
    •How old is he?
    •Let us hang out.
    •English comes to me.
    • But if too literal and translation is to be avoided,
    at the same time you should guard yourself
    against too free a translation.
    • An excessively free translation sometimes lacks
    the essential thought without which the whole
    translation looks absurd.
    • For Instance:
    •“If equal affection cannot be, let the more
    loving one be me.”
    •“How wild it was, to let it be.”
    •Do not use either unfamiliar or archaic
    words.
    •Choose only such words as you know well.
    Examples of archaic words
    Thy namesake tamed the desert and sweetened
    the minds of thy people, didst thou know that?
    Dust thou art to the dust thou returnist.
    •The use of bombastic, high-sounding words,
    and of foreign words and terms, It does not
    add beauty of translation.

    •For Example:
    •It is a gigantic water crossing construction.
    • Try to avoid the use of many words when a single
    word, rightly chosen, will do.
    • For instance:
    • She is a teen and beautiful young female.
    • Print out was printed out.
    • As tomorrow is Sunday, the office will be close, so
    we will discuss this on next day on Monday when
    the office will be open.
    • Tomorrow is Sunday we will discus it on Monday.
    •The whole art of translation lies in the
    careful choice of exact words.

    •For instance:
    •We have few apples left.
    •We have a few apples left.
    • If a sentence is inconveniently long or bears an
    involved construction:
    • Break it up in your mind in three or four shorter
    sentences.
    • Then translate them into English but see that in doing
    so you have not sacrificed or mutilated the sense of
    the original.
    • For Example:
    • Today, as the election is in progress, after hours of careful
    thought, searching the background of each candidate, we
    decided to vote John, finally.
    • Animal Services distributed pet food to almost 100 seniors.
    •Lastly, see that your English translation
    reads like a continuous piece of prose,
    written in simple, idiomatic English. It
    should give exactly the same impression as
    the vernacular passage.
    Test of a Good Translation:
    • Your translation is a success if:

    • 1. It is a faithful translation of the original into English.


    • 2. It conveys exactly the sense and meaning of the original.
    • 3. It reproduces all the details, omitting nothing.
    • 4. It is a translation as a whole.
    • 5. It is a continuous piece of good English.
    • 6. Its total impression is the same as that of the original.
    Additional Tricks:
    General or Inference Context Clues:
    •Information from the text that helps a
    reader identify a word and understand its
    meaning.
    •Coyotes have a voracious appetite. They eat
    insects, lizards, snakes, rabbits, squirrels,
    grasses and even fruit.
    Tone or Mood Context Clues:
    • Sometimes the mood that the author has set for us
    helps us guess at a word’s meaning.

    • For Instance:
    • The doctor’s office was so clean and shiny that Aisha
    thought even the chairs must be sterile.
    • In the pirate story, there were the good guys against
    the buccaneers.
    Word by word translation story
    • Aaj mai roze se hu,
    • Today I am with fast,
    • Nan za da roje sara yam.
    • Aaj mai roze se hu, muje gaali math do,
    • Today I am with fast , don’t give me abuse,
    • Nan za da roje sara yam , mala kanzal ma rakawa.
    • Ma 5 roje niwali di,
    • Mai ne 5 roze pakar liye hai,
    • I have caught 5 fasts.
    • Ma Da bang sara roja matha krra,
    • Azan ke sath mai ne roza thorr diya,(Kolna)
    • I broke the fast with azan.
    • Shame a little do.
    • My mom is new to texting and texts me
    asking.....

    • Mom: Hi, Son, what does IDK, LY, and


    TTYL mean?
    • Me: I don't know, Love You and Talk to
    you later
    • Mom: It's OK, don't worry about it. I'll
    ask your sister, Love you too.
    For any query
    FELL FREE TO CONTACT ON:
    The end
    The end

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