Translation challenge, August 2020

This challenge is about practising translation, either from your native language to Chinese, or from Chinese to your native language. Please read the linked article for more information and inspiration!


Recent activities

12 minutes

On 8/14/20, I translated dialogue between a student and teacher. The student was trying to schedule office hours with the teacher. My teacher checked my answers. I'm learning a lot through English-...

Saturday, Aug 15

Dioni
120 minutes

subtitles

Friday, Aug 14

tiwi
15 minutes

超声说明

Friday, Aug 14

character
10 minutes

English -> 支付信息

Friday, Aug 14

character
16 minutes

I start transating the story Marx enters the Confucian temple into Spanish. There is som old fashioned words that make things difficult. I think I will stick to this piece so I can build in the voc...

Friday, Aug 14

Alicia MSA
15 minutes

Friday, Aug 14

Huey Kwik
10 minutes

On 08/13/20, I verbally translated dialogues about hobbies and making plans with friends.

Friday, Aug 14

Dioni
15 minutes

I translated a paragraph on a article in The Paper about the 地摊经济。It's been hard a I'm not focused in the task, but I think I prefer to do a bit of work everyday. I learnt the word 地摊 which is nice...

Thursday, Aug 13

Alicia MSA
60 minutes

translating subtitles (halfway)

Thursday, Aug 13

tiwi
15 minutes

I'm exploring different styles yet. I chose a excerpt from Fang Fang's Wuhan diary into Spanish. There are some literary elements that have been difficult, but the descriptions of everyday life are...

Wednesday, Aug 12

Alicia MSA
20 minutes

Iwc translation exercises

Wednesday, Aug 12

Huey Kwik
50 minutes

桐木传说:正山小种 -> English

Wednesday, Aug 12

character
120 minutes

translating subtitles

Wednesday, Aug 12

tiwi
60 minutes

On 08/11/2020, I spent about an hour researching and writing translations of English sentences in my textbook without looking at the Chinese first. Reading wikis and watching videos about how to us...

Wednesday, Aug 12

Dioni

Dioni joined the challenge!

Wednesday, Aug 12

Dioni
30 minutes

Worked on translating Family Trust powerpoint - title slide, 01 topic slide and 2 slides of content

Wednesday, Aug 12

fay
46 minutes

translating an article about old age found on QQ

Tuesday, Aug 11

Julia
45 minutes

月光白茶介绍 -> English

Tuesday, Aug 11

character
20 minutes

blood test instructions -> 中文

Tuesday, Aug 11

character

character joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 11

character

Julia joined the challenge!

Tuesday, Aug 11

Julia
19 minutes

Translated from Chinese to Spanish. First paragraph on an article on thepaper.cn Many such articles often seem out of reach but when read carefully I only found I only needed to look up one or two...

Tuesday, Aug 11

Alicia MSA
10 minutes

Translate sentence from San Francisco simple english wikipedia on Lang 8

Tuesday, Aug 11

Huey Kwik
5 minutes

Tuesday, Aug 11

Huey Kwik
120 minutes

translating subtitles.

Monday, Aug 10

tiwi

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.tiwi26.5106%
2.fay8.7887%
3.character8.5785%
4.Theresa 8.1754%
5.quack 嘎本5.7571%
6.Julia4.7895%
7.Alicia MSA2.4730%
8.James Lester 2.2575%
9.Dioni1.7443%
10.Kit1.4214%
11.Huey Kwik1.3313%
12.OGDogster1.08%
Participants33
Hours reported72.76
DurationAugust 10, 2020 to
August 31, 2020 (22 days)