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Are you and your spouse struggling to connect and find common ground? Do your obligations as a high-ranking executive make it difficult to achieve work-life balance? If more time is spent on work pursuits than our intimate relationships, this time investment can become fertile ground for affairs, whether physical, emotional, or both. By allocating investments in intimate relationships, similar to how investments are made in business and professionally,...
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Rick Grannis is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Where do neighborhoods come from and why do certain resources and effects--such as social capital and collective efficacy--bundle together in some neighborhoods and not in others? From the Ground Up argues that neighborhood communities emerge from neighbor networks, and shows that these social relations are unique because of particular geographic qualities....
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An organization's ability to achieve strategic goals through programs and supporting projects depends on its ability to establish a future vision, set strategic goals, select the most valuable projects, and then execute flawlessly. Organizational strategic alignmentis achieved by converting strategic plans and goals into a valuable portfolio of programs and supporting projects. Strategic project leaders and project teams execute the project plans...
24) Jump Into German
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It's a great feeling to know you can be who you are without fear or embarrassment. This German language course is designed to be FUN AND EASY to follow. In this eBook we have covered all of the most likely situations you may face and have prepared you with the KEY WORDS AND PHRASES most commonly used. In this modern age you will most likely have a cell phone and wear a watch - consequently we have avoided tedious chapters on telling the time, counting...
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This book condenses the important lessons learned at key points during the author's 30-year career as an intergovernmental conference interpreter and trainer, seeking to define what constitutes good interpreting and how to develop the skills and abilities that are conducive to it, as well as fostering practices and technologies that help to maintain high professional standards. The book places interpreting in its historical context as a time-honoured...
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This is the fifth revised edition of the bestselling “A Practical Guide for Translators”. It looks at the profession of translator on the basis of developments over the last few years and encourages both practitioners and buyers of translation services to view translation as a highly-qualified, skilled profession and not just a cost-led word mill. The book is intended principally for those who have little or no practical experience of translation...
27) Jump Into Dutch
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It's a great feeling to know you can be who you are without fear or embarrassment. This Dutch language course is designed to be FUN AND EASY to follow. In this eBook we have covered all of the most likely situations you may face and have prepared you with the KEY WORDS AND PHRASES most commonly used. In this modern age you will most likely have a cell phone and wear a watch - consequently we have avoided tedious chapters on telling the time, counting...
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The aim of this volume is to make a statement on the importance of research on Audiovisual Translation, both in its different varieties of production (dubbing, subtitling, surtitling, voice-over and e-learning) and in its relationship with language acquisition. On the whole, it is a merging of applied theory and practice, with a willingness to encourage a dialogue between scholars specialized in this field that may expand to other fields.
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Este impulso de Álvaro Faleiros de penetrar en la complejidad del acto traductivo por medio del chamanismo solo le es dado a él, que es poeta, músico y traductor.
Después de discutir sobre Vizioli, cuando se refiere a las traducciones de poesía en lengua inglesa, cuyas posiciones traductivas se centran en el ritmo, introduce la antropología como fuente de reflexión, que, desde la antropofagia de Viveros de Castro y las consideraciones chamánicas...
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Mi nombre es José Pérez Baldonado. Fui maestro bilingüe en Brownsville, Texas. Aprendí de mi padre cómo contar historias. Cuando yo era un niño y se juntaban mis primos en casa, mi papá nos ponía sentados alrededor de él en el patio y nos contaba cuentos. Uno tras otro de varios cuentos. Algunos eran cuentos dicho a él cuando era niño y otros los inventaba él mismo. Su nombre fue Miguel -en inglés sería Michael- . Es por eso que yo titulé...
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In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Certain challenges and certain themes recur in translation, whatever the language pair. This guide proposes to help the translator navigate through them. Written in a witty and easy to read style, the book's hands-on approach will make it accessible to translators of any background....
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In Joyce Carol Oates's story "The Translation," a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis's "French Lesson I: Le Meurtre," what begins as a lesson in beginner's French takes a sinister turn. In the essay "On Translating and Being Translated," Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Crossing Borders: Stories and...
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The Internet is accelerating globalization by exposing organizations and individuals to global audiences. This in turn is driving teletranslation and teleinterpretation, new types of multilingual support, which are functional in digital communications environments. The book describes teletranslation and teleinterpretation by exploring a number of key emerging contexts for language professionals.
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"La traducción es una actividad que ha acompañado al ser humano a lo largo de los siglos. Si, como afirma Octavio Paz, aprender a hablar es aprender a traducir, entonces traducir es un mecanismo esencial que permea nuestra concepción, percepción y aprehensión del mundo. Desde otra perspectiva, aprender a traducir es también aprender a leer en su sentido más amplio: es descifrar, comprender e interpretar la alteridad inscrita en cualquier tipo...
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“The Interpreter's Resource” provides a comprehensive overview of interpreting at the start of the twenty first century. As well as explaining the different types of interpreting and their uses, it contains a number of Codes of Ethics, information on Community Interpreting around the world and detailed coverage of international organisations, which employ interpreters.
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Este volumen recoge ocho trabajos resultantes de la actividad del autor como estudioso y oficiante de este quehacer literario -tres de los cuales inéditos y cinco publicados anteriormente en revistas especializadas-, y viene en cierto modo a complementar una primera recopilación (Literatura y traducción, 2006) de dieciséis estudios académicos dedicados al mismo tema, dando en este caso cuenta de distintos procedimientos de trabajo relativos a...
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Let's be sérieux!
Can't quite come up with the right French quip or four-letter word? With Talk Dirty: French, you'll be able to put your (middle) finger on it. Each entry provides an individual foreign gem, a useful French sentence employing the word, the expression's English counterpart, and its literal translation.
Whether you're a native-speaker, world traveler, or just looking to tell off those brash Parisians, these naughty words and risqué...
38) Heritage Development in English and Igbo Language: 100 Igbo Statements and Proverbs You Should Know
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Why heritage language development?
The need for proficiency in heritage language across the world cannot be overemphasized. United States has an unprecedented need for individuals with highly developed language competencies not only in English but also in many other languages. In fact, the need for individuals with proficiency in languages other than English in social, economic, diplomatic, and geopolitical arenas has been higher. To meet the demand...
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During the last thirty years, the field of translation has exploded with multiple new theories. “Contemporary Translation Theories” examines five of new approaches—the translation workshop, the science of translation, translation studies, polysystem theory, and deconstruction—all of which began in the mid-1960s and continue to be influential today.
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The global/local distinction has changed significantly, and the topic has been heatedly debated in literary and cultural as well as translation scholarship. In this age of globalisation, the traditional definition of translation has been altered. In the present anthology, translation is viewed as a cultural and political practice, and accordingly translation studies is based on a heightened awareness of global/local tensions in translation and of...
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