Translation challenge, September 2016
Recent activities
Got this backwards and went Chinese to English, but it's too late to stop now! Want to translate through a short book on traditional architecture.
Ben Parker
Translated another three dozen (or so) example phrases and sentences and one dialogue from English back to Korean, and three more dialogues from Korean to English.
Alexander Giddings
Majiya
I have never done this activity.however i want to try so in that way I can learn and prectice a little more chinese.
Cecilia Elizabeth Pauta Pauta
Cecilia Elizabeth Pauta Pauta joined the challenge!
Cecilia Elizabeth Pauta Pauta
Started to translate a new German fairy tale. I am still having problems with conjunctions and a variety of vocabulary.
Majiya
Translated another three dozen or so example sentences and one dialogue from Korean to English. Checked my translations against those provided.
Alexander Giddings
Translated yesterday's example sentences and three dialogues from English back into Korean. Looking at some of the corrections I've made, I can see that ideally these bidirectional translation ...
Alexander Giddings
Majiya
Alex joined the challenge!
Alex
Did a quick translation of news in easy German. This time I tried not to be as accurate as possible, but to look up words as little as possible. This way I could translate much faster (but not nece...
Miriam
Translated about three dozen example phrases and sentences from Korean to English.
Alexander Giddings
naphta
Discussed some finer translation details and verified some usage with Zoe.
Olle Linge
Translated today's class notes for Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Judicial aspect
Manuela
Translated dialogues #2–4 from Korean into English, and dialogue #1 from English back into Korean.
Alexander Giddings
Paul Fogarty joined the challenge!
Paul Fogarty
I translated the first half of the article "How to find out how good your Chinese pronunciation really is"
Peter
Elise Hollingsworth joined the challenge!
Elise Hollingsworth
Translated three short texts from the textbook I'm currently teaching at uni. Only one-way so far.
Olle Linge
This month I'll be applying the bidirectional translation method to a set of 40 basic Korean dialogues as an extension of the Grand Listening Cycle – after transcribing and studying each dialogue, ...
Alexander Giddings
Alexander Giddings joined the challenge!
Alexander Giddings
Translated a speech about Chinese economy originally given by a US ambassador. A bit difficult getting the exact meaning across, sometimes I had to "dumb it down". great practice though.
海峰
Majiya
Matthew Werth joined the challenge!
Matthew Werth
Leaderboard
Rank | Score | Personal goal progress | ||
1. | Alexander Giddings | 11.79 | ||
2. | Majiya | 5.33 | ||
3. | Peter | 5.0 | ||
4. | Ben Parker | 3.0 | ||
5. | Olle Linge | 2.33 | ||
6. | Manuela | 2.25 | ||
7. | naphta | 1.5 | ||
8. | 海峰 | 1.5 | ||
9. | Miriam | 1.05 | ||
10. | Cecilia Elizabeth Pauta Pauta | 1.0 | ||
11. | Sharon | 0.17 |
Link | http://www.hackingchinese.c... |
Participants | 27 |
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Hours reported | 34.92 |
Duration | September 10, 2016 to September 30, 2016 (21 days) |