Trying to find tips and inspiration for translating a book... came upon this Ted talk. It was phenomenal. What an intelligent young woman and amazing speaker. As somebody who is also interested in languages and the slight differences between them, I want to be like her “when I grow up”. (Also, hearing her reference Russian throughout the whole video brought a smile to my face :) Спасибо!)

This is so true. I was making a translation of a book about a teenage hermaphrodite into Spanish. Most difficult thing ever.

@Valerie-bx7nj

5 жыл бұрын

Hi! Could you tell me which book is it please?

@paulheinrichdietrich9518

5 жыл бұрын

@-- Puedes hacerte con los conocimientos adecuados si te enteras de los contenidos de la carrera. Consulta con un traductor profesional para ello. Mi recomendación es que estudies gramática (de las lenguas que quieres traducir), lingüística, fonètica (si quieres ser interprete), y que además te especialices en algún campo de estudio que sea relevante a las industrias que existen en tu país para lo cual debes informarte acerca del mercado laboral. Centrate en disciplinas que sean muy requeridas, ej: medicina, bioquímica, farmacia, economía. Si te informas bien y te autodisciplinas es probable que logres ser un mejor traductor que los que se han graduado de universidades privadas.

@EriniusT

3 жыл бұрын

@@Valerie-bx7nj commenting here bc i want to know too

@jesuisravi

2 жыл бұрын

@@Valerie-bx7nj he's trying to be funny with this comment

This was such a good Ted Talk and deserves way more hype!

@whiteninjaplus5

4 жыл бұрын

Nah

Yes!! When I read Harry Potter in Chinese, a lot of the puns had to be translated in a footnote, and it really takes away from being immersed in the story, like Voldemort's real name and McGonagall's "let your hair down"

Being a translator myself, I’ve always been “against” the idea. I don’t like read books that are translated from foreign languages. We need to understand the books, feel the events as the authors themselves in their exact mother language. I sometimes try very hard to give the exact feelings, but there are some cases that it’s nearly impossible. As, for example, trying to translate Camus or Balzac from French into Russian or Armenian. It’s possible technically but impossible in many ways 😇 Sometimes there are expressions I consider as a “literal sin” to try to “change” them

Translating literature is very hard task because the language of literature is full of rhetorical segments and lexical items that belongs to the SL and make it distiguished, while the TL doesn't have the same equivelences so, the translator must be well knowledgable about the two cultures and must read much about the original writer so that he can know about his way of thinking and writing

very interesting, right now I am writing about translation, I came to this video because it said "impossible".... well certainly not impossible, however very complex

I loved it !!! Mariam is extremely intelligent and cognitive. I could have watched ten more minute of her speech. It is interesting to notice that Persian, neighbor language to Armenia so to speak, doesn’t have the same protocole at all. Their is no grammatical gender, rather the very large use of formal and informal(what we read often differs from what is written). For info ;)

Traducir un libro es muy difícil, pero me encantó hacerlo. Espero poder traducir algún otro :D

Thank you!

Thats why we study translation in college, to solve these problems that you are talking about. There is nothing that can't be translated! You can translate everything. The thing is, how do u translate, how much you are capable of translating this or that book, how much do you know about that language and the gaps and the problems of it... if it's true that she is talking about, we could have never heared anything about (Kafka, Dostoevsky, Marry Shelly, Shakespeare, Albert Camus...ect) in Kurdistan (place where i live)... and any other places around the world. I personally against translating poem, but not novels and stories. PS: I am a student of the college of translation.

This is so true. Translating literature is tricky. Sometimes we may not have issues and sometimes we will need some advice.

Well done!

this talk was really interesting.

Greatest show on earth.

Wow, I loved this! That made me think about language in a way I knew but differently... explain that aha! Will be discussing this at uni when I reach my translating term :) Thank you! Very insightful, it's so difficult to translate some things especially when other languages have verb endings with a gender, not everything can be neutral for some.

Loved it.

Actually you can say just blue in Russian. It is not entirely correct, but somewhat acceptable to say siniy instead of goluboy. So yes, they are both siniy (blue).

@sobanya_228

5 жыл бұрын

​@Mariam Mansuryan I know linguists like that example. I'm just saying that saying goluboy is more optional, than for example pink in English.

Good presentation

That’s great

I speak both Spanish and English, I will read how to kill a mockingbird in English, for sure. Then, I will read it in Spanish, to compare the impressions. Thank you for the info.

enqan em mtatsel es ameni masin :D shat xarn a.. shat lav speech er )

Wait Your right or my right?

There are strategies which one may use in order to keep the uncertainty about the gender of a character. For example, during the text, adjectives which may convey gender-related information could be used exchangebly, as beautiful and handsome... And I've seen even an interchageable use of pronouns he and she for the same character... I was a bit confused at the begining but then I realized it was on purpose in order to keep the character's gender as a misterious feature.

@animalsandbabieschannel

4 жыл бұрын

thank you

I've read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in English and until chapter 8 or 9 I was almost 100% sure Scout was a boy 😅

@bib3kpandey

2 жыл бұрын

Why is that?

In indian languages, for example, hindi, it also does have grammatical gender and different words for maternal and paternal sides of relatives.

I wanna become a literary translator...

@sg6388

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@areejrababah4792

2 жыл бұрын

You can do it 💪✨

Languages are different for a reason.

The colors are Navy Blue and Cyan/Turquoise. The rest of the video just argues English is a more flexible language. You can do the gendered objects in English with some tactful rewriting and, at worst, modifying the premise a bit. (i.e. the child was convinced everything has a gender)

keikaku means plan

Grammatical gender in Arabic is so common too.

On page 5 Jem refers to Scout as "she", so we know Scout is a girl from page 5.

and then there is my prof at uni who wants us to read a lit piece in English and make a summary in our mother tongue so even though the original is in English, there are many parts that are untranslatable especially for a person who has never done that

What do Armenian wrestlers yell when they give up the fight? Paternal or maternal uncle?

Something is always lost in translation.

Any Armenian poets who are trying to translate literature?

@skepticaltomboy

3 жыл бұрын

@D & D I'm working on translating a book from Spanish to English. It's pretty tough. I agree

@tubafizzlecrisis

2 жыл бұрын

A year late, but I'm one.

Who is a translator says dark blue in Russian. or like this comment.

Great video.....and let's stop trying to modify gendered language to fit a political agenda.

Just change gender for word to show that he's weird. She instead of he. Poor translators.

@Smithpolly

2 жыл бұрын

It still doesn't give the same message. In English, owners of boats or cars often refer to them as "She" rather than "It" as if the boat or car has a personality. If he has lived all his life in that room , every object in it is important to him, seems alive to him. Whether the rug is referred to as He or She in Russian, it doesn't give the reader that information which is given to an English speaker.

Good presentation