Translators and Linguists

The text is clear in the original languages. So how can Christians help others understand this fact?

Or as C. H. Dodd explained it:

"No one who has not tried it can know how an impossible an art translation is. Only those who have meditated long upon the Greek original are aware of the richness and subtlety of meaning that may lie even within the most apparently simple sentence, or know the despair that attends all efforts to bring it out through the medium of a different language." From New English Bible translation of the New Testament.

until everyone can read the original Greek and Hebrew for themselves… christians ain’t gonna be able to get others to understand squat

Where could I look? Perhaps find some kid in Latin America with e-mail who’ll translate for $10/story.
I can’t find some housewife in Honduras with great Spanish grammar and some free time?

I can teach you some spanish, if you want to. I’m uruguayan. Send me your e.mail

Now I know that Google has a translator and it works well, but I want to know the meaning of the word. So, on Google you type in the word (in my case it was Mitsu) in English and it translates it to how it would look in Japanese. But that doesn’t help me with figuring out what it means. Any suggestions?

I recommed this dictionary:

http://www.suteki.nu/translator/

Works!

Hope this helps ^_^

I have seen people major in languages like spanish before. but how practical is that. I know it can pay very well to translate. But it seems like the translation software could one day make this profession obsolete.

How long could it be until the software gets to the point where it is more practical to use it than to hire a human translator?

Software replacing human translation would probably never replace human translators, Although the technology is advancing, a person can provide a better, more accurate translation most of the time and the grammar is more likely to be correct. In the long run, a human is a better translator but for smaller tasks or businesses, technology would be more practical.

If you are bilingual I’m sure you understand that sometimes translation can be a little bit different. From hebrew and a lot of Jesus’s metaphors that he spoke in, could it be that the translations were altered a tiny bit?

Which translators are you talking about?

The Latin and Greek scholars King James paid to put the Bible into English? No. I know for a fact that there are hundreds of translational mistakes in the KJV, even though saying so gives some of my fundamentalist brothers apoplexy.

The translators of the Jerusalem Bible? Yes, pretty much. They were not only fluent in the Koine Greek of the Bible, but some of them were masters of the older Aramaic and Hebrew that the KJV scholars had no clue about.

Of course will any translation be perfect? Of course not. No 2 languages match up phoneme for phoneme, concept for concept.

1. I am on the path to a career change. How can I switch from a Structural Engineer to a Translator/Interpreter (Mandarine-English). I’d rather not go back for another 4 years of university study.
2. I’d also appriciate anyone who can give me any idea about the pay. I understand simultaneous court interpretation cost more than, say, a translation job for a travel brochure. I am located in Toronto, but any big/median city info is appriciated.
3. What is the difference between being a member of the ATA or CTTIC and being licensed by these organization?

You’ll get paid alot but you really should know the language well!!!

I’m trying to watch a show about they world’s biggest dude. He’s Spanish, so every time someone speaks I have to wait 2 or 3 sentences until it makes sense, it’s really aggravating!

Yeah sometimes they really need a second translator to translate what the first guy says into something we can understand. Otherwise sub titles would also work.

I’m looking for the best (in your opinion) translations of Hindu texts like The Upanishads, The Vedas, and The Bhagavad Gita. Thanks in advance!

Bhagvad Gita as it is : this is a book by AC Bhakivedenta Swami Prabhupada

He does the best translation of the Gita. Their are numberous books for the Upanishads and Vedas with translations in English. It all depends on how in depth you want the translations to go

Is this potentially a good career option?

With literally millions of Chinese people studying English, some to very high levels, translation is a very crowded market place. Unless you have some specialised translation skill, such as technical translation or medical translation it can be very hard going.

I translated some documents for friends and would like to make a career out of freelance translating.Do I need a certification or membership? Any career tips for freelance translating will be of great help.

Hi. I get most of my freelance work through oDesk and I see a lot of translation jobs posted there all the time. You do have to set up a profile but it doesn’t cost anything.

Hope this helps!