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The language being taught
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Submitted by cucumis
Source language: English

When translating a language course, be careful not to translate the words written in the language being taught!
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For example, you have a french lesson commented in english :
« "Bonjour" means "Hello" »
If you want to translate the lesson into italian it will be :
« "Bonjour" significa "Buongiorno" »

In this example the french language is the taught language and the english and spanish languages are the languages used to comment the lesson. "Bonjour" is kept untranslated.
Edited by cucumis - 15 August 2007 19:23





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28 December 2005 13:10

sander
Number of messages: 1
Is this sentence correct? isn't it: ... in the 'original' language must be ...


28 December 2005 13:32

cucumis
Number of messages: 3785
I don't know, my english is not fluent. This is what I wanted to say :

For example, you have a french lesson commented in english :
« "Bonjour" means "Hello" »
If you want to translate the lesson into italian it will be :
« "Bonjour" significa "Buongiorno" »

In this example the french language is the taught language and the english and spanish languages are the languages used to comment the lesson. "Bonjour" is kept untranslated. Does it sound right to you?

15 August 2007 15:06

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
That part is correct, but the sentence structure is not quite right. It should be like this:

When translating a language course, be careful to keep the parts written in the language being taught untranslated!

Or simpler still:

When translating a language course, be careful not to translate the words written in the language being taught!

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