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Here is an example of consecutive interpreting by the man in the centre of the picture. He is interpreting in a professional context between Spanish and English.

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I would feel a limitless power if my brain could comprehend this beautiful script. Photo taken on Maldives.

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“The translator has to do consciously what the author did instinctively. And yet it must seem instinctive.”—Richard Pevear

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“The translator has to do consciously what the author did instinctively. And yet it must seem instinctive.”—Richard Pevear

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“The translator has to do consciously what the author did instinctively. And yet it must seem instinctive.”—Richard Pevear

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“The translator has to do consciously what the author did instinctively. And yet it must seem instinctive.”—Richard Pevear

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I've seen, at times done, interpretation or translation at different churches between English and Spanish. A person's spirituality can be so important, and being able to understand and participate with a religious community can be incredibly meaningful.

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What Google gave me when I searched images for 'liberté'

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The Gate Guard Costume Experience in Seoul , S.Korea.

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The image was taken in Rusholme, an inner-city area of Manchester, about a couple of months ago. As you can all see, Arabic and English are the languages visible on the restaurant banners.
The way in which the space is used in the image is important, as the two languages are presented side by side rather than all mixed.
I can identify interlingual and cultural translations as there has been a translation between different languages. Furthermore, the content has been substantially altered to ensure that it is understandable to the British community, which might have as well happened with the menus of those restaurants.
I can identify an example of translanguaging in the picture as the Arabic word ‘sisha’ has been integrated in the British communication system.

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At present, we are in lockdown. Many people is watching tv shows, passing time and of course, learning about new cultures and customs, thanks to the translation processes.

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The dangers of interpretation mistakes and "not knowing what you don't know" is a big part of a story told in the movie "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez". Here is a link to an article (the relevant part is about halfway through the article: 

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The dangers of interpretation mistakes and "not knowing what you don't know" is a big part of a story told in the movie "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez". Here is a link to an article (the relevant part is about halfway through the article: 

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Key issues have to do with different nouns for different genders: caballo vs yegua in spanish and the tone: defiant "I can't be arrested" vs "you can't arrest someone for nothing" .

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11:1-9, the famous story of the Tower of Babel, provides an etiology for the multiplicity of languages. According to the famous passage, all people shared one language in the postdiluvian world. In the land of Shinar, humankind under Nimrod's rule decided to build a city and a tower, the latter of which would stretch up to the heavens. When God saw the tower under construction, he declared: "Behold, the people is one, and they all have one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do" (King James Version, Genesis, 11:6).

As is the case with many biblical stories, this brief narrative seems to accomplish several goals simultaneously. First, it explains something that might otherwise be puzzling: namely, if we all descend from a shared set of progenitors (Adam and Eve, or however one might like to conceive of the beginnings of homo sapiens), then how did the diversity of languages emerge? What is the causal explanation of this familiar phenomenon? Answering such questions is the point of an etiology.

Second, it provides an implicit moral lesson. Although the bible verses themselves fail to articulate precisely what bothered God about the city and tower, biblical commentators had no problem reading between the lines and declaring that humanity was guilty of hubris. In planning and executing such a grandiose building project, such an overwhelming feat of architecture and social organization, they were setting themselves on par with the divine (this is the conclusion drawn, for instance, in the first-century commentary by Romano-Jewish scholar Flavius Josephus).

Third, the story indicates a somewhat surprising comparison between God and humanity. Notice that God is concerned that nothing that humankind can imagine will be impossible for them and this is the reason God imposes the confusion of tongues. While the verses don't claim that any single human is comparable to God with respect to efficacy (the ability to do what one wishes), God's disapprobation of the construction suggests that God worries that as a group working together humankind more closely approximates divine potency. This is a troubling and unexpected element of the narrative. It ascribes power to humanity beyond what we might have imagined and in that regard offers the reader hope by subtly proposing that regardless of the difficulties facing us, solutions are within grasp provided mankind works in concert.

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On the other hand, God doesn't seem to want us to succeed in our ambitions-perhaps out of fear that man would go too far, perhaps out of fear of being displaced altogether. So, in one sense, this is the biblical version of Pindar's assertion that "for mortals, mortal things are fit"; humankind must not attempt actions that approximate the divine in scope and power. In another, it demonstrates (as does God's confrontation with Job in the eponymous book) that God does not have an entirely positive view of mankind-not only owing to its inherent weakness and sinfulness but also owing to its potential for outlandish achievement.

Finally, the myth of the Tower of Babel reveals that the crux of human achievement on a large scale lies in successful communication. It is precisely because all humankind shared a single language that they were able to undertake such an enormous task. Since God obviously felt threatened enough to do something about it, we can only assume that he foresaw that humans would satisfactorily complete that task. Moreover, all it took to defeat humankind's ambition was to create the confusion of tongues; by thwarting our ability to communicate directly, the project was doomed to failure. One might imagine that if such a marvel of engineering were already underway then even operating with differing languages would not derail its accomplishment but Genesis attempts to convince us otherwise. Communication (and fundamentally linguistic communication) is the foundation of cooperative achievement; a break in the circuit that connects sender and recipient leads to a breakdown in social efficacy.

Taking world history into account, I'm not convinced the God of Genesis need be all that concerned. Humankind hardly needs a confusion of tongues for a breakdown in communication; such breakdowns are probably the norm rather than the exception. If we naïvely think of communication (and our quotidian beliefs, when unexamined, about communication are indeed naïve), we tend to view it along the lines of a circuit. A sender emits a message and the recipient receives the message; communication is successful when the recipient receives it in the spirit of its original intent. The naïveté is fairly obvious. Given the complexity of the contextual aspects of language (no message simply means what it says on its face but rather comes in the context of other events, ongoing conversations, implicit understandings), given the variability of the meaning of phrases and words, given the variability of modes of expression (sincerity, sarcasm, requests, demands), it is all too easy to believe you understand a message and yet to get it wrong in some significant fashion.

No matter what I say, no matter how simply the message, it is unlikely that you will truly understand it in the precise manner I meant it. My assumptions are not yours, my worldview need not be shared by you, my sense of significance will necessarily differ from your own. This isn't, on its own, a fatal flaw in language-it is one of the ways in which language navigates the essential differences between the self and others. The problem comes when we forget to be mindful of language's slipperiness vis-à-vis meaning-something we nearly always put to the side, because we want to believe (and often need to believe) that successful communication is the norm. That is how the trains run on time, how we are able to meet deadlines, get paid, graduate, keep apprised of the happenings in the world, etc. Slippages inherent to language are dismissed as negligible errors committed by flawed humans and not something built into communication as such. We consider ourselves expert language users; therefore, breakdowns strike us as aberrant and unexpected.

Spartus Camera image from Free-Photos ( CC0 Creative Commons / Pixabay)

The difficulties are compounded, of course, when we attempt to communicate with someone who speaks a different language altogether. This is the crux of the film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982), directed Robert M. Young and starring (and produced by) Edward James Olmos. This film is one of the progenitors of modern Chicano cinema and there are many angles by which we might approach it. In an interview contained in the new Criterion Collection edition of the film, Olmos makes rather large claims for The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez-it is the first film with a Chicano as protagonist, it is the only western declared to be "historically accurate" by the American Historical Association. But one of the most striking aspects of The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez is that it does not provide subtitles despite that the script contains large sections in English and in Spanish. The choice was deliberate-not only to avoid marginalizing Spanish (since presumably it would be the subtitled language), but also to reinforce the mutual linguistic understanding that serves as the focal point of the film's plot.

is set in Texas in 1901. The region, then as now, was home to whites and Mexicans and at that time there was still an uneasy tension of mutual distrust between the two groups. The central moment in the film (one returned to both on screen and in conversation throughout its running time) is the confrontation between Gregorio Cortez (Olmos) and Sheriff Morris (Timothy Scott). Morris believes that Cortez stole a horse. Cortez and his brother Romaldo (Pepe Serna) speak no English; Morris speaks no Spanish. Morris, however, brought along an interpreter, Boone Choate (Tom Bower). Choate is self-assured in his translations (he claims to "talk Mexican", having been "around them most of [his] life), and indeed does an adequate, if rather clumsy job at first.

Morris had heard from another Mexican that Cortez had recently traded a horse with him and uses that information as an entry point into an informal interrogation. The initial breakdown (and the one that the film emphasizes once the mistake is realized-after the bloodshed and just before the trial) occurs over words related to "horse". The sheriff wants to know if Cortez had recently traded a horse (as he knew from his source) but Cortez denies it. He says he has not traded a caballo. Morris insists that another person vouches for the fact that he had traded a horse and Choate adds that the other man "has no reason to lie." Cortez declares he is being misunderstood. No cambiamos un caballo, era una yegua. Yegua means mare. Cortez, therefore, is simply saying that he did not trade a (male) horse ( caballo) but that he did trade a mare ( yegua). He even laughs at the point of confusion.

Clearly Choate does not understand what was just said; but the expression on his face exudes a misplaced confidence in his abilities to comprehend Spanish and his insight as a sidekick to an interrogation. "They ain't gonna tell you nothing," he insists to the sheriff. Morris, believing that Cortez is refusing to cooperate, tells Choate to inform him that he is under arrest. Cortez protests: Por qué? No hemos hecho nada. No nos puede arrestar por nada. "Why? We did nothing and you can't arrest us for nothing."

Here Choate makes the fatal mistake and I find it curious that the film never discusses this point. The lawyer at the end is solely concerned with the misunderstanding of yegua. But it is Choate's mistranslation of Cortez's protest that leads to the tragic confrontation. Choate translates the objection as a statement of defiance. He smirks at Morris and sneers: "He says no man can arrest him." This is a far cry from the intention behind Cortez's actual statement, which was merely a declaration on behalf of justice. One ought not to be (cannot be- no puede) arrested when one has done nothing wrong. Choate tells Morris that Cortez's plea for justice is really a proclamation of resistance, of subversion of the law, and open disobedience toward authority. Those in a position of authority often cannot countenance such blatant insubordination. Morris pulls a gun; Cortez pulls his. The camera turns away just long enough to obscure who fired the first shot but it hardly matters. No one needed to die. Or rather, death is derived from a fairly simple case of the confusion of tongues.

(source: IMDB)

The moment is worth considered reflection. Language, as Jacques Lacan asserts, is the domain of the symbolic order. It is a system whereby one signifier (a word, a phrase, etc.) refers not to a signified (the thing meant) but rather to another signifier. According to Lacan, the signified itself lurks obscured beneath this sea of signification. Language is not constituted by the speaker but rather constitutive of the speaker; that is, we do not form and construct language, it forms us. Lacan relates the symbolic order of language to Freud's concern with the need for repetition (what he terms the "death drive") that derives from the inability to recapture or to compensate for a lost object to which the subject was attached. This makes language the site of absence; it marks out the space of a lack, the uncanny home to the irretrievable connection to the adored object. Language thus has a disciplinary function; it forces us into a social mode of being that transcends the decisions of any given societal actor (no one "creates" language anew, we are born into it and adapt to it).

By attempting to force Cortez into the language of authority, by misapprehending his attempt to clarify the legality of his apprehension, Morris attempts to subordinate Cortez to the symbolic order of the law that language both represents and underwrites. The implicit designation of Spanish as illegitimate in matters legal and thus as degenerate reinforces racialized assumptions of the legal status and social role of Mexicans in Texas. The role of truth slips away almost entirely (like the signified that recedes beneath the roiling surface activity of signifiers). What matters at this moment is Morris's need to bring Cortez under the sway of language as he (representative of the law) utters it. Morris isn't facing another human being, by these lights, but rather he's facing a resistance toward the smooth functioning of linguistic logic, the logic of force and order and-ultimately-white supremacy.

The inability to communicate truthfully and accurately runs like a red thread through the course of the film. By refusing to provide subtitles for the Spanish, the film forces English-speaking viewers into the same position of not quite understanding as experienced by many of the characters. But even in the English statements, confusion abounds. The same scenes are separately narrated by different characters so that what was deadly assault in one account was self-defense in another. No narrator is reliable; each is concerned with his own integrity, his own view of himself. Choate considers himself a skilled interpreter and a brave man who would have saved Morris if he only had a gun and will now do his best to avenge Morris's death. Others recognize the confusion of various encounters with Cortez-often too late. The Texas Rangers, under threat of being disbanded, insist that they are chasing the "Cortez gang", despite the fact that Cortez is fleeing the law unaccompanied. A reporter named Blakely (Bruce McGill) covers the story and interviews several of Cortez's pursuers. He insists that the "people" have a right to the story. But all we get are stories, varied and mutually contradictory, slanted and prejudicial. We might have a right to those stories but we clearly have no right to the Truth insofar as that remains unattainable.

Cortez sees himself as the victim of not only misunderstanding but the casual racism of Texas's white establishment that automatically brands him a thief and a second-class citizen. The film clearly sides with Cortez despite the intimation that no account adequately substitutes for the truth, the latter ever receding from our grasp, inaccessible to our understanding insofar as even Truth itself cannot complete the circuit of communication because the recipient of the message cannot help but bend that message to deep-seated preconceptions of what it ought to mean.

The judge grants Cortez a translator at the trial (this seems to have been one of the first times in US history when that concession was made) but even this fails to complete the circuit of communication. By this point, emotions were too raw, anger too overriding. The explanations of the lawyer, the insistence that this all derived from a deadly and pointless mistranslation, couldn't withstand the assumption of the guilt of the other.

William Sanderson as Cowboy, Edward James Olmos as Gregorio Ortez (source: IMDB)

Indeed, in the entire film there is only one moment that might be seen as an act of successful communication. During Cortez's flight, he alights upon a cowboy (William Sanderson) sitting alone at a campfire, cooking his dinner. Cortez warily approaches, too exhausted to resist detainment should this man also be in pursuit of him. The cowboy claims to be sick of his own company, having been alone so long. He invites Cortez to sit, to warm himself by the fire, to rest his weary body, and to partake of the cowboy's meal. He speaks no Spanish; Cortez speaks no English. The situation has the potential to run parallel to the encounter with Morris and yet that's not how things go-in large part because the cowboy has no pretension toward being in a position of power whereby Cortez would have to subordinate himself. The cowboy treats Cortez as a welcome guest, a comrade. He rambles on about past loves, his loneliness, the trials and tribulations of life, his mediocre but acceptable ability to cook. He declares that he is happy to have someone to talk to even though he fully realizes that his companion doesn't understand a word.

The film seems to posit that this is the successful act of communication insofar as both men recognize the other not as an enemy but as a friend (a temporary friend, perhaps, but a friend nonetheless). They also recognize the ultimate futility of linguistic communication, or perhaps they recognize the incomplete nature of such communication, that language, given to misprision, is never sufficient in communicating with another person. It requires the supplement of the desire to comprehend-not just the message being sent but also, and more importantly, the humanity and vulnerability of the other.

Communication relies upon something deeper than language, a feeling of compatibility with the other that must first be in place before language can have any efficacy at all. This, the film suggests, is the problem with language-legal, contractual, prejudicial, etc. It pretends to be self-sufficient and complete. Moreover, it insists upon that self-sufficiency and punishes those who find it lacking in clarity. We glory in the ambiguity of language until we find opportunity to enforce a rigid understanding of its legal weight that falls in our favor. Language that insists on its imperviousness to misinterpretation is the language that enforces inequality, the language that seeks the disadvantage of the other in order to perpetuate the privilege of the self.

If we want communication to work, if we want to reap the benefits of cooperation envisioned in the tale of the Tower of Babel, then we must seek to respect difference between the self and the other while also pursuing those ways in which we remain the same. We must seek parity; we must seek mutual acceptance and the connectivity that breaks through division, the connectivity that foments union, that cures loneliness, the connectivity that comes with love. If we want to achieve worthwhile projects, successful communication is essential. Meanwhile, I don't think God has much cause for alarm.

Criterion Collection has released a new blu-ray edition of The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. The disc comes with several extras, including a new interview with Edward James Olmos, a new interview with Chon A. Noriega, the author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema, and a cast-and-crew panel from 2016 including Olmos, the director Robert M. Young, the producer Moctesuma Esparza, the director of photography Reynaldo Villalobos, and several of the actors.

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A translator can work at home choosing the best place which must be comfortable, light and enough useful to spend hours producing the most productive results to finish the proposed work.

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Last year my daughter working as a human rights lawyer translated a biographical German law book into English and sent me a photo of the English publication. I felt very proud of her. I had been her German teacher in school. Her work ensured that the book was made available to thousands more readers worldwide.

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There was the XXIX World Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk (Russia). So, these tablets help foreigners to navigate the city. 

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There was the XXIX World Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk (Russia). So, these tablets help foreigners to navigate the city. 

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Maybe the most obvious example of translation

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Interpreting and translating is giving a received message in a different language from yourself. Being able to transmit and say what others want to say keeping in mind culture and social issues.

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My home language is 'Afrikaans', a language spoken mainly in South Africa. I now live in Scotland and find it a part of my daily life to have to translate thoughts and ideas into, not only English, but into the culture of Scottish Folk, often catching myself using a phrase such as 'for you here in Scotland, it would be akin to...', while trying to explain something arbitrary.

I also watched an episode of an Afrikaans show the other day and was so frustrated to see the terrible translated subtitles in English - the quality was absolutely horrifying.

It made me think how much really is 'lost in translation'. It spurred me on to try to satisfy the insatiable thirst for learning as many different languages and cultures as I can.

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This is Obama talking to Lula. Behind the Brazilian ex-president there is an interpreter, translating everything Obama is saying.

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Bread and salt is a symbol for friendship and trust .A friend sometimes say to his friend, Calm down we had eaten bread and salt together, however , bread and salt mean ALL  foods 

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Bread and salt is a symbol for friendship and trust .A friend sometimes say to his friend, Calm down we had eaten bread and salt together, however , bread and salt mean ALL  foods 

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Just an idea of translation! :)

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Colourful Peruvian market. I loved exploring the markets on my mountain treks! | Incredible places

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Feb 24, 2013 - Colourful Peruvian market. I loved exploring the markets on my mountain treks!

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Taken some time ago in the south of Spain, so what is the place of the andaluz in front of the castilian Spanish? Inside the same territory but defining a real difference of speaking, of culture, a merge already with the arabic neighbour... So the question is always coming back, is it only badly spoken Spanish? Should texts be translated in this "dialect"?

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Taken some time ago in the south of Spain, so what is the place of the andaluz in front of the castilian Spanish? Inside the same territory but defining a real difference of speaking, of culture, a merge already with the arabic neighbour... So the question is always coming back, is it only badly spoken Spanish? Should texts be translated in this "dialect"?

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Saudade is an untranslatable Portuguese term. There are countless translations which are more like explanations of what this feeling means. Try listening to this remarkable song by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes and try to translate 'saudade'.

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Targum Onkelos (“Translation of Onkelos”)

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Targum Onkelos (“Translation of Onkelos”)

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This is a photo of a Jewish Bible, the original Hebrew text is on the right and the translation into Aramaic is on the left, because Hebrew is read right-to-left.

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This sign language interpreter has apparently become really famous in my country!

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‘’Platano’’ is the male version of the banana, eaten in Colombia as a vegetable, with salty food. It’s often smashed and fried to be served at lunch, and represents an important part of the Colombian’s typical gastronomy.

In Russian language, the translation is summed up as Banana, that is very far away to the real meaning in the Colombian context.

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a picture that represents translation

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Simple but relevant picture of a translation process in our daily lives 

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Simple but relevant picture of a translation process in our daily lives 

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Picture that describes translator, while he is trying to sytematize autor's  chaos of thoughts.

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The instruction on a beauty product shown in this picture is essential for users to properly use the product and get the benefits from it, as well as to avoid any mishaps from wrongly using it.

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Translation  is common in our day to day life for instance we definitely use drugs,costimetics and food items exported and imported around the globe and mostly their pamphlet are written in English,French,Spanish,Arabic and so on.this has made the use of this items easier and accessible by every individual globally.

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I googled 'professional translator' in Italian and found pictures of machine translators, and then this photo, advertising professional translation services: giving the 'mirror image' of what a professional business would expect to see, but far from the reality!

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This picture represents how beauty products get to different parts of the world, probably giving benefits to skin care. Very useful, mostly, to women.

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beer in english shows not a specific beer, but in a obvious glass.
Birra- the italian translation of beer shows a specific type of beer that uses the word 'birra'

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Both Portuguese and Spanish on the label.

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Interpreter for Farmers in A remote Area in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Interpreter for Farmers in A remote Area in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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This isn't my first time to be an interpreter. But this's my favorite part ever because most of my experience is interpret about tourism or culture. Which, I have to interpret from a local language into English and vice-versa.

It's kind of challenging because this time, I have to interpret about agroforestry to the local farmers in my region, which I've never learn about this before. Then, the presenter in the workshop also  like to tell a joke, which it would be so difficult to interpret to the local language.

I think, be an interpreter for issues that we never have before can be lucky or -even- a nightmare. Because, we will not only transfer from a language to another language, but we have to learn something that we've never learn before which it's quite challenging. But it'll make us full of new information and knowledge.

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Interpreter for Farmers in A remote Area in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Interpreter for Farmers in A remote Area in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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This isn't my first time to be an interpreter. But this's my favorite part ever because most of my experience is interpret about tourism or culture. Which, I have to interpret from a local language into English and vice-versa.

It's kind of challenging because this time, I have to interpret about agroforestry to the local farmers in my region, which I've never learn about this before. Then, the presenter in the workshop also  like to tell a joke, which it would be so difficult to interpret to the local language.

I think, be an interpreter for issues that we never have before can be lucky or -even- a nightmare. Because, we will not only transfer from a language to another language, but we have to learn something that we've never learn before which it's quite challenging. But it'll make us full of new information and knowledge.

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The book we read, the manual of some device and many other things are the result of translation. It is a very important part of our life.

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to translate is to write something completely new, to translate is to put your own words, soul and heart into your piece of writing, trying to help people understand each other 

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to translate is to write something completely new, to translate is to put your own words, soul and heart into your piece of writing, trying to help people understand each other 

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this picture is not from my library because I can't find this book. but it seems like a big misunderstanding went in the process of translation this title. while "Shutter" is the island name, here it is translated to "the closed island" for some reason. It should have been (جزيرة شتر).

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Having the opportunity of translating a specific message, opens the possibility of knowing a whole world hidden back codes known as language. Also, it brings up the chance to open our minds at the moment of getting inmerse into a new culture.