Using Internet and translation sites with languages

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Using Internet and translation sites with
languages

• A few pieces of advice on how to use the internet
  correctly.
• (Spanish)

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Una pequeña historia.....
Hola! me llamo María y tengo veinticinco años.
Soy traductora en una empresa multinacional.
Uno...Dos...Tres...
translator
A los siete años, empezaba a estudiar español en
el colegio primario.
Me llamo María. Buenos días.
A los once años, empezaba a estudiar español en
el colegio secundario.
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A los dieciséis años hice mi GCSE en español
Saqué una A!!!!
A los dieciocho años hice mi A-Level en español.
Saqué una A!!!!
A los veintidós años hice mi diploma en español
después de cuatro años en la universidad.
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Y luego a los veintitrés años hice mi maestría en
traducción

• masters in Translation

Y poco después tuve una entrevista para un
puesto de traductora.

• an interview

...y ahora soy traductora en una empresa
multinacional.
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• Professional translators like María have spent
  around 20 years studying a language so it is very
  unlikely they will give you a translation for
  free. This means you need to know how to use the
  free bits of translation sites effectively.

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Word reference

• www.wordreference.com is the best internet site
  for translation. We advise you to use this if you
  are trying to say something in French or Spanish
  and are sure you cant write it correctly
  yourself. It is also useful for checking your
  work for errors. Open wordreference now on the
  internet.

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You will see a list of options here. You can
choose to find out what a Spanish/ French word
means. Or you can choose to find how to say an
English word in Spanish/French.
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Exercise 1 Use this menu to find the words for
pumpkin in French, Spanish and Italian. Just
type the word Pumpkin into the correct boxes
and look for the word. Write them down onto your
sheet as exercise 1.
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Exercise 1a Now use this menu to find out what
these Spanish words mean Fomentar ______________
Espuma _______________ Pulpo
_________________ Write them down onto your sheet
as exercise 1a.
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Exercise 2 Types of words
Now you are ready to do exercise 2. You will see
that when you type in a word to translate, you
are given a lot of information. Here we have
bank as two types of words....A noun
(sustantivo) and a verb (verbo)
Its important you get the correct one You
might want to say... I went to the bank
(noun) Fui al banco or.... I wanted to bank
my money (verb) Quería ingresar mi dinero
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SO ITS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU PICK THE CORRECT
TYPE OF WORD.
You can see from this that the word winter can
be a noun, adjective and a verb. The first A
noun (nombre) Este invierno ha hecho mucho
frío
This winter has been really cold Second
An adjective (adjetivo) Un abrigo invernal

A winter coat Third A verb
(verbo) Inverné/Pasé el invierno en Madrid
I
wintered in Madrid
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Exercise 2a Find the words in Spanish for the
following Nouns
Summer A square (in a city) Government Key Poke Ki
ck Type
Are you sure the words you have are Nouns? Like
el niño which means the child or Torres
which means Towers
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Exercise 2a Find the adjectives in Spanish for
the following Nouns
Summer ______________
Square____________________ Chocolate
_____________ sweet
_____________________ Government ____________
running (continuous) ___________
and are the words you found really adjectives
...words like fantástico that describes me or
terrible that describes Ronaldo .
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Verbs are doing words like scoring a goal or
beating Man U or beating them again or
laughing at them...jejeje
Exercise 2b Find the words in Spanish for the
following verbs
Turn Hand Jump Laugh Type poke
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Other types of words
We also have other types of words Adverbs -
Words that describe how you do something (usually
/ quickly / stupidly/ fast) Prepositions
Words that are used to say where things are
(on/in/at) Pronouns Words used to replace
nouns (he/it/them) Conjunctions connecting
words ( and / but)
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Compound words
Just like in a dictionary, there are usually more
than one entry under a single word. Look at the
entry for hair We have several compound words
(made up of two parts) in this entry.
You need to know that dictionaries websites
like wordreference.com will group together
related words under a single heading.
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Now lets try an exercise to see if you can find
these.
Exercise 3 Find the following compound
words Hair-raising _________________ brown
sugar _______________________ Turn pink
___________________ get down(descend)
___________________ Get together (meet up)
___________________________________________hot-te
mpered _______________ handkerchief
_______________________
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Phrases
If you look at many entries, you will find
phrases as well as words. These phrases are very
useful for putting into your entries. So under
the entry for as we find phrases like As I
said As usual As many as As a rule
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Phrases
Exercise 4 Find the Spanish for the following
phrases Laze about _______________ get
tired ___________________________ Long run
_________________ problem page
_________________________ To be as thick as
thieves __________________________________________
_ As long as ________________ like a bat out
of hell _____________________ Mass media
_______________ its all very well
________________________
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Phrases
Think carefully about which word you are going to
look at. The example no ver tres en un
burro There will be hundreds of entries for
ver so it would be better to look at burro
Exercise 5 Find out what these phrases mean in
English Tan solo ______________ no ver
tres en un burro _______________________ Como si
_______________ estar en la flor de la vida
______________________ Planta baja ____________
estar al caer _______________________________
Hipo _________________ cuatro gatos
________________________________ Tener algo en
cuenta ___________________________________________
______ A toda velocidad __________________________
__________________________
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Forums
At the bottom of many entries, you will see a
blue section which are forums where people write
in with translation requests. In here you will
find many useful phrases and sentences translated
by helpful Spanish people. Be careful you pick up
the correct phrases.
Lets look at translating this phrase Good try
As in Good try Ronaldo, but you missed the goal
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So we can see here that a person from America has
asked how to say good try And a Spanish
speaking person has answered So Good try in
Spanish is buen intento
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Sometimes people ask for translations of whole
sentences. So if you want to write a sentence
into your essays, you may find what you want here.
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Forums
Exercise 6 Use the forums to find out how to
say these things in Spanish. Links are provided.
1. now we know how you got that C-minus in
German, don't we, Sam
http//forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t45
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Hola Nando!
Like when Rafa wins at Tennis. Hola Rafa!
2. Game, set and match
http//forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t17
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3. You will have to fill in a blank map of Europe
with the names of the countries
http//forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t10
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4. our exit is directly under the sign indicating
liverpool 2 miles
Liverpool..mmm I know that word from somewhere
http//forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t50
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Using google
Google is the worlds most popular search engine.
It has access to millions of websites in many
languages. It can be very useful in Languages to
see whether your Spanish is correct. For example
In Spanish there are two verbs to be Ser and
Estar. If you wanted to say The men are green
with envy And you needed to decide between los
hombres son verdes de envidia Or
los
hombres están verdes de envidia You can use
google to find out..... but you should already
know it has to be the 2nd example so well try
some more interesting ones.
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Go to Google now If you use speech marks
Above the 2 key And put a phrase in to the
search engine, Google will tell you every example
of this sentence on the internet.
Lets use this to find out which football team is
most popular Real Madrid or Barcelona?........
Well type in Me encanta el Real Madrid Me
encanta el Barcelona in speech marks and count
the number of examples..
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339 examples for Barcelona
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899 examples for Madrid Looks like Real Madrid
are most popular
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Using google

• Lets find out if Spanish speaking people
• .....1.) Wanted Senator Obama or Mccain to win
  the U.S election
• 2.) Prefer red or blue
• 3.) Have fears of snakes or spiders

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Obama or Mccain??
NO CONTEST HERE Obama wins by 1470 hits to 175.
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Red or blue
Clearly Spanish-speakers prefer blue.
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Fear snakes or spiders
Looks like its spiders that give people the
heebie-jeebies most of all.
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Exercise 7 Decide which of these sentence
options are correct by checking on Google which
is the most popular. 1. Mi madre es en la cocina
/ Mi madre está en la cocina 2. Trabajo para
Mcdonalds / Trabajo por Mcdonalds / Trabajo en
Mcdonalds 3. Estamos listos para la fiesta /
Estamos preparados para la fiesta 4. Mi ordenador
no funciona / Mi computadora no funciona 5. Mi
perro es enfermo / Mi perro está enfermo
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Say for example you wanted to find out how to say
I dented my car. First you would go to
wordreference.com and find the verb to dent.
(Remember all verbs end in ar / -er / - ir /
-se)
Abolar to dent
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VERBS
Verbs are very difficult. You can use the verb
conjugator on wordreference to write the correct
tenses. Lets try to say I will knock down your
house Firstly we need to find the to knock
down ..So we write knock into wordreference
Scroll down a bit and youll find lots of verbs
that have to do with knocking. So first we make
sure we have a verb. Next we make sure we have
the right type of knock down. There are 5 entries
here. So we choose the one that has to do with
buildings. Click on echar abajo jump to
next slide here.
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Verbs
Click on the verb conjugator and you will see a
screen like the one below.
Here you have all the tenses of the verb to
knock down you could ever wish
for. Present Imperfect Future Perfect Conditional
Dont worry about the others for now
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• Exercise 8 Find out the entire present
  subjunctive (this is a new tense youll learn
  soon) of ser to be
• and the entire conditional tense of gemir to
  whine using the verb conjugator. (6 words for
  each box)

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We wanted to say I will knock down your house
So well find the future tense Jabattrai ma
maison
Exercise 9 . Find the Spanish for the following
verbs. You need to make sure you have the correct
tense. A We would travel BI am C..I was
(imperfect subjunctive) DI will open E I will
moo
F She has barked
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Translate into Spanish
Preparing to send fish to space
                                 STOCKHOLM
(Reuters) Scientists plan to launch 60 tiny
fish on a zero gravity rocket ride from above the
Arctic Circle on Monday to try to plumb the
secrets of motion sickness. Tomas Hedqvist,
project manager for Swedens Esrange Space
Centre, said the baby cichlid fish will head 260
km (160 miles) into the air on an 11-metre
(36-foot) two-stage rocket, where they will
experience six minutes of weightlessness. Experime
nters Reinhard Hilbig and Ralf Anken of the
University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim in Germany will
train six video cameras on the fish, each of
which will be housed in its own aquarium, to see
how they react. Fish, when they get motion sick,
begin tumbling around, swimming in circles and
miss their balance, he said, adding that some
fish do not suffer from motion sickness and seem
to adapt quickly to a changed environment. Some
of the fish, which were flown from Germany to
Swedens far north in special aquariums, will be
housed in a slowly turning centrifuge which will
offer some gravity while others will be in a pure
zero G state, Hedqvist said
I like Green Fish