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Shortcuts
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How to improve your translation skills
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Typical
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Improving your translation skills is easy: to begin with,
simply avoid the most typical
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Instead of translating a written text, you could also translate
the spoken text in a film. The site Universal
subtitles enables you to align your subtitles with youtube
clips and to share your
translation online. |
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Bonus material for translation texts
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The following
pages contain "bonus material" for particular translation
texts. |
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Recommended reading
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 | Friederich, Wolf (1977): Technik des Übersetzens. Englisch und
Deutsch. 4th ed. Ismaning: Hueber.
[many concrete juxtapositions] |
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| Götz, Dieter (2005): Aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche. Kindle Edition 8. November 2011.
Available here.
[the condensed knowledge of decades of teaching English translation
with a linguistic background, kindly made available to future
generations of students] |
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| Götz, Katrin (2005): "Textueller Kulturbezug als
Übersetzungsproblematik: ein zweckorientierter Lösungsansatz."
In: Kovtyk, Bogdan: Linguistische und didaktisch-psychologische
Grundlagen der Translation. Berlin: Logos, 49-66.
[a summary of translation strategies for
culture-specific concepts] |
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| Hohenadl, Christa and Renate Will (1994): Into German. Ein
systematisches Übersetzungstraining. Ismaning: Hueber.
[typical translation mistakes] |
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| Hönig, Hans G. (1997): Konstruktives Übersetzen. Tübingen:
Stauffenburg. 2nd, rev. ed.
[linguistic background] |
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| Humphrey, Richard (2008): Strategies of Translation. German -
English. Volume I: Word, Phrase, Sentence. Stuttgart: Klett.
[useful hints and concrete juxtapositions] |
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| Humphrey, Richard (2008): Grundkurs Übersetzen Deutsch-Englisch.
Stuttgart: Klett.
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Humphrey, Richard (2007): Aufbaukurs Übersetzen Deutsch-Englisch.
Stuttgart: Klett.
[concern the opposite directionality but contain
some useful examples] |
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| Koller, Werner (1997): Einführung in die
Übersetzungswissenschaft. 5th ed. Wiesbaden: Quelle und Meyer.
[theoretical linguistic background] |
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| Königs, Karin (2004): Übersetzen Englisch-Deutsch. Ein
systemischer Ansatz. München: Oldenbourg. 2nd, rev. ed.
[comprehensive and profound, many concrete
juxtapositions, useful explanations, grammatical background - though
sometimes the grammatical terminology is questionable] |
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| Smith, Veronica and Christine Klein-Braley (1989): In Other Words… Arbeitsbuch Übersetzung.
Ismaning: Hueber.
[many helpful exercises] |
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| Snell-Hornby, Mary et al. [Hrsg.] (1999): Handbuch Translation.
2nd, rev. ed. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
[general survey of translation and interpreting] |
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| Stolze, Radegundis (2008): Übersetzungstheorien. Eine
Einführung. 5th, rev. ed. Tübingen: Narr.
[survey of linguistic, textual, and translation
background] |
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| Thurn-Mithoff, Martin and Kenneth Cronin (1995): Übersetzungshilfen
Englisch - Deutsch - Englisch. Mainz: Logophon Lehrmittel.
[translation problems in a nutshell, good
examples] |
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