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| When you're not busy doing that... | Jan 26, 2012 |
Ty Kendall wrote: ...but the DipTrans Examiners Reports make for some fascinating reading!  (I'm serious)
...do you like watching paint dry?
| | | | Ty Kendall
United Kingdom
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Hebrew to English
Depends, matt or gloss?
| | | | | General paper 2012 | Jan 27, 2012 |
geraldjames wrote:
Hi Emma
I thought the general paper (I only sat that one) was fair overall and having read your comment that you found it on the Economist I thought I would search for it. Unfortunately I can't find it - please can you let me have the web-link? Also, do you know - was the Spanish version the original or was it a translation of the Economist article? It'd be ironoc if we were asked to translate a translation!!
Hopefully I won't regret reading the English version!
All the best.
Gerald McGrath
Hi Gerald,
Here is the link to The Economist article that we had to translate from English (into French in my case). It was about the changes of the kitchen over the years (the room itself and also cooking/ eating habits). If you had this text to translate then you will most certainly recognise the paragraphs. However, I would be surprised if they had used the same texts for translations from and into English. Would they really translate a text from English into other languages for candidates to translate back into English? Seems like an odd thing to do. I think they would be more likely to use an original text from the source language.
http://www.economist.com/node/10281275
| | | | Emma Goldsmith
Spain
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Member (2004)
Spanish to English
| original texts | Jan 27, 2012 |
geraldjames wrote:
Hi Emma
I thought the general paper (I only sat that one) was fair overall and having read your comment that you found it on the Economist I thought I would search for it.
@Gerald, as you'll have seen, the Economist article was mentioned by Valérie.
I found the Spanish general paper here: http://www.laopinioncoruna.es/sociedad/2011/06/24/machu-picchu-amenaza-exito/508391.html
(I don't think it's quite complete)
valerie wrote:
Would they really translate a text from English into other languages for candidates to translate back into English? Seems like an odd thing to do. I think they would be more likely to use an original text from the source language.
@Valerie: Well, I'm pretty certain that the Spanish technology paper was a translation of the original printer leaflet.
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| Technology paper | Jan 27, 2012 |
Emma Goldsmith wrote:
@Valerie: Well, I'm pretty certain that the Spanish technology paper was a translation of the original printer leaflet.
What a strange thing to do, seems a bit unfair... This tech paper sounds like a real nightmare!
| | | | | English to Spanish Unit 1 Jan 2012 | Jan 28, 2012 |
Hi Emma
My mistake, I thought you found a translation of Unit 1 of the Spanish paper (in English) on the Economist's website! I found the original Spanish article by doing a Google search and I am pretty sure it was originally written in Spanish. So we weren't being asked to translate an article into English which had originally been written in English!
Best forget about it for another 13 or so weeks!
Best regards,
Gerald
| | | | | English to French at the Camden Centre | Feb 1, 2012 |
Hi Valérie,
I was there too, translating into French as well. I found the general paper much trickier than the semi-specialised ones, but maybe that's only because it was the first one and I was not into it as much as for the other two. I took the business paper because I had to translate this kind of article on a daily basis in my previous job, and the social sciences one, and just like you, I finished right on time for each paper with just a few minutes to proofread. I have no i... See more Hi Valérie,
I was there too, translating into French as well. I found the general paper much trickier than the semi-specialised ones, but maybe that's only because it was the first one and I was not into it as much as for the other two. I took the business paper because I had to translate this kind of article on a daily basis in my previous job, and the social sciences one, and just like you, I finished right on time for each paper with just a few minutes to proofread. I have no idea how some people managed it in a shorter amount of time.
The most challenging for me was dealing with my exhaustion because of a crying little baby at home the night before (I hadn't had such a broken night in weeks!), but I was so determined, nothing could have stopped me
I am so looking forward to receiving the results and counting weeks... ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Just curious! | Feb 1, 2012 |
Maryline David wrote:
I was there too, translating into French as well.
How many people were there at Camden? At the British Council in Madrid we were just under a dozen in the two years I took papers.
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Maryline David wrote: Hi Valérie, I was there too, translating into French as well. I found the general paper much trickier than the semi-specialised ones, but maybe that's only because it was the first one and I was not into it as much as for the other two. I took the business paper because I had to translate this kind of article on a daily basis in my previous job, and the social sciences one, and just like you, I finished right on time for each paper with just a few minutes to proofread. I have no idea how some people managed it in a shorter amount of time. The most challenging for me was dealing with my exhaustion because of a crying little baby at home the night before (I hadn't had such a broken night in weeks!), but I was so determined, nothing could have stopped me I am so looking forward to receiving the results and counting weeks...
Hi Maryline,
I know the feeling... Although my youngest child is older (5 years old), I wasn't feeling very bright on the day of the exam (we all had very bad colds the week before so we were still recovering). Actually, if the exam had been the week before, I don't think I could have come as I was in bed with a temperature. It's a bit harsh to only have one day a year to sit the exam... Like you, I am counting the weeks, and there is a long way to go... Bonne chance!
| | | | | Between 60 and 70 candidates? | Feb 6, 2012 |
Tomás Cano Binder, CT wrote: Maryline David wrote:
I was there too, translating into French as well. How many people were there at Camden? At the British Council in Madrid we were just under a dozen in the two years I took papers.
Hi Tomas,
Actually, I am trying to remember how many of us were there. There were several lines spread out in the big hall in Camden so I am gussing there were about 60 or 70 of us but anyone who was there too and is better than me at maths, please feel free to correct me!
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United Kingdom
Local time: 01:35
Spanish to English
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| Business/social science papers? | Feb 24, 2012 |
Hi Emma,
Do you have any links to the Diptrans 2012 SP>EN business or social science papers at all? (if you did either of them).
Many thanks,
Matt
| | | | | Diptrans 2012 | Mar 1, 2012 |
Hi Valerie!
Yes I did the diptrans this year ENG>FR at the Camden Centre. I think I saw you there at some point. C'etait abordable but I needed more time for the general translation text. lol
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| English into Spanish tech paper | Apr 28, 2012 |
Hi, has any of you sat for this paper? I found it particularly hard! By any chance, has anybody found the article somewhere??
Thanks
| | | | | Hopefully not too long to wait now... | Apr 28, 2012 |
Hi Liliana, I hope someone can help you with regards to the Tech paper, personally, I didn't choose this option.
Can't be tooooo long now for us to get the results. After such a long wait I can hardly remember how I did in my papers. It's all a bit of a blur...
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