Using Internet and translation sites with languages

1. Using Internet and translation sites with languages A few pieces of advice on how to use the internet correctly. (Spanish)

2. Una pequeña historia..... Hola! me llamo María y tengo veinticinco años. Soy traductora* en una empresa multinacional. Uno...Dos...Tres... *translator A lossiete años, empezaba a estudiar español en el colegio primario. Me llamo María. Buenos días. A losonce años, empezaba a estudiar español en el colegio secundario.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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 can’t write it correctly yourself. It is also useful for checking your work for errors. Open wordreference now on the internet.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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) It’s 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

11. SO IT’S 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

12. Exercise 2a – Find the words in Spanish for the following Nouns Summer A square (in a city) Government Key Poke Kick Type Are you sure the words you have are Nouns? – Like ‘el niño’ which means ‘the child’ or ‘Torres’ which means Towers

13. 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 .

14. 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

15. 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)

16. 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.

17. Now let’s 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-tempered _______________ handkerchief _______________________

18. 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’

19. 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 _______________ it’s all very well ________________________

20. 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 ____________________________________________________

21. 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. Let’s look at translating this phrase ‘Good try’ As in ‘Good try Ronaldo, but you missed the goal’

22. 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’

23. 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.

24. 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?t=455341 Hola Nando! Like when Rafa wins at Tennis. Hola Rafa! 2. Game, set and match http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=170738 3. You will have to fill in a blank map of Europe with the names of the countries http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1086563 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?t=507930

25. Using google Google is the world’s 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 we’ll try some more interesting ones.

26. 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. Let’s use this to find out which football team is most popular: Real Madrid or Barcelona?........ We’ll type in “Me encanta el Real Madrid” & “Me encanta el Barcelona” in speech marks and count the number of examples…..

27. 339 examples for Barcelona

28. 899 examples for Madrid – Looks like Real Madrid are most popular

29. Using google • Let’s 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

30. Obama or Mccain?? NO CONTEST HERE – Obama wins by 1470 hits to 175.

31. Red or blue Clearly Spanish-speakers prefer blue.

32. Fear snakes or spiders Looks like it’s spiders that give people the heebie-jeebies most of all.

33. 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

34. 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

35. VERBS Verbs are very difficult. You can use the verb conjugator on wordreference to write the correct tenses. Let’s 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 you’ll 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.

36. 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 Don’t worry about the others for now

37. Exercise 8 – Find out the entire present subjunctive (this is a new tense you’ll learn soon) of ‘ser’ to be • and the entire conditional tense of ‘gemir’ to whine using the verb conjugator. (6 words for each box)

38. We wanted to say ‘I will knock down your house’ So we’ll find the future tense J’abattrai 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 B…I am C..I was (imperfect subjunctive) D…I will open E… I will moo F …She has barked

39. 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 Sweden’s 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. Experimenters 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 Sweden’s 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