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As a language translation student or translation professional working for an American translation agency, you might ask yourself why you study English? Should the translation be into or out of English? If so, that’s reason enough. As an interpreter, when you speak or write, you present yourself to others. In advance, if you are concerned of your image as professional, and who is not? In this case you are also concerned of your language, that represents you. Surely, not all types of work are dependent just from the way you speak and write. On the other site, the high level of spoken and written English is a basic requirement for a person, working in a Russian to English Translation company. You have to conform with some standards for writing and speaking in English, if you are a student in translation studies at a local university.
Different type of learning experience can be found in this series of articles by people, studding Language or working as professional translators. English Grammar For Translation will help you better understand and use the English language. Plus you will experience the dissimilarity in the approach, which this type of articles use, in order to improve your English. In the first two parts of this series, you will learn the basics of English grammar with a thorough overview of the parts of speech and punctuation and capitalization rules. A French Translation worker who holds a graduate degree in English and Bulgarian teaches this section. The third section rest on these skills, providing you with audio example for improving of your sentence structure and writing capabilities. The final section refers to some main spelling and word skills in the usage.
All of the concepts introduced are emphasizing on getting common with some distinctive errors. In particular, you will see that the concepts aren’t just pure grammar after all. These articles will find out where errors are typically made instead. Let us assume, that you are aware of pronouns, as a definition. This doesn’t mean that you are invulnerable to the most typical errors, that can be made with these function words. Take a look of the sentence below:
Completely Wrong: Me and James are employed by the same translation agency. You recognize “me” as a pronoun. It is used instead of someone’s name and you decide that you may use it also as a part of the subject in the sentence. For what reason it cannot be used in this context? You will be reached why it is wrong in articles 2 and 3 by our Italian Translation workers. After that, at the end of every article, you will find written practice exercises that will upgrade the new grammatical points you have just learned. You are strongly encouraged to complete each exercise to help identify your strengths and weaknesses as you progress through the series. Through the Answer Key included you might be able to specify the weaknesses in your English.
At the end of each article you will find a provision of ten questions in a quiz in order to check your progress on concepts introduced in the stage. You should try to achieve a score of eight out of ten on a quiz before moving on to the next article. Each of the four parts ends with a test of fifty multiple-choice questions that review the content of that part. We recommend to you not to move on the next part before you got score of 75 percent on these closed-book test. At least the series provides you with a final that includes 100 multiple-choice questions, in order to evaluate your knowledge of all the grammatical concepts, introduced in the book. A good score on this exam is 75 percent.