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In the year 382

Pope Damascus I of the Biblical Commissions scholarly and ascetic priest Jerome to produce a revised Latin Bible. The Vulgate (from the Latin vulgate, meaning "common use") becomes the preferred text of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries to come. Today, Saint Jerome is the patron saint of translators and scholars. Thanks to this data we can mention that a record is kept from the antiquity of the translation.

In 1372

Geoffrey Chaucer was featured in the works of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio on a trip to Italy. While the author of the Canterbury Tales was not primarily a translator, much of his great classic was adapted from the writings of Italian Contemporaries. It is said that what he wrote was an adaptation of the texts which let us know this was the first interpretations and adaptations of languages.

1519

La Malinche began interpreting for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The young Aztec who would become a translator and guide for the Spanish that learned a number of languages that were spoken in the region. She was recognized in history for being almost a decade as an interpreter, without her it would have been completely difficult communication between the Spanish and those who would be the natives of the Mexican region.

In the year of 1680

Dryden popularizes the approach in translation theory to distinguish between three types of translation: metaphrase (following the text literally), paraphrase (adhering to meaning rather than exact wording), and imitation (reconstructing the text with creative license). It was the ancient Greeks who first discussed these modes of translation, but it was Dryden who ushered them into modern translation theory. Which opens a bigger door to what would be the interpretation and adaptation.

1945

The Nuremberg Trials Mark the Beginning

of simultaneous interpretation as the standard for diplomatic conferences. With the exception of the 1927 International Labour Conference in Geneva, interpreters had worked consecutively, listening, speaking and reproducing language with the aim in manageable pieces. These led performers to use headphones and microphones to work almost in real time.

Modern times:

Nowadays there are many tools on the internet that translate literally what we are saying, being this a very important tool for people when they want to communicate with people who do not speak their mother tongue, There are translators who help us to translate texts, and still today many people also choose to look for people who help them communicate like others in a language different from theirs.

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