My name is Nailen Yearwood and I'm 26 years old. I live in the west side of Panama, and I am in love with the coffee. I can drink almost 5 cups of coffee a day. Nevertheless, I like to learn English since I was a child. Then, I when I was 19 years old I went to Georgia, Atlanta to take an English course for four months. It was an unforgettable experience.
This portfolio has been created to practice the critical thinking skills. Each moodle leads us to apply the different translation procedure. We learned that Critical thinking might be described as the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Moreover, to evaluate/criticize a translation, we need first to understand the circumstances of the original text. Technical document, legal document, literary document, business document, each category has its own characteristics, which create different conditions for a valid translation.
On the other hand, Critical thinking skills are especially important when translating news because they have usually a high impact, but are very short-term. so important errors in the translation of the news can lead to important misunderstandings. I did the research for a news in New York Times about the Smoke From Canada Wildfires Is Returning to New York and I translated to Spanish very carefully to avoid a misunderstood.
Last but not least, I enojoyed doing the projects but there is one that I really enjoyed and it was the optional project 3. I was able to compared the bibles versions in Englsh and Spanish. In translation, this is called Dynamic equivalence (communicative translation) versus formal equivalence (literal translation). Here the notion of equivalence is not the same as for translation procedures: It applies to a whole document, as a translation method.
Thanks professor Dumoulin for such as great experience throughout the moodles!