Questão 1861611

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Translation is the first step in a foreign language learning. There are four parts of learning any language: reading, writing, listening and speaking. While translating you practice two of them - reading and writing. They are less stressful than listening and speaking, but very important because they provide a platform for communication skills.

Translation can help you to:

master your grammar

expand your passive vocabulary

improve spelling

practice in finding the right word

in some cases to learn new terminology

Can one improve language ski/1s through translation practice?

Translating can be extremely helpful for experienced linguists as well as for beginners. Translators usually work with specific type of vocabulary, with IT terminology ar terms of law. But sometimes, we have to leave familiar areas and face topics we know little about, even in Russian. lt can be aviation ar nuclear power vocabulary, for instance. Here translation practice can be useful.

This story I heard from my boss. He taught English aviation terminology to a new interpreter (it was a little bit surprising for me, because I knew my boss doesn't speak English). He gave the interpreter a huge text about aviation for translation. ln some weeks, when the translation was ready, he gave her the sarne text in Russian to check her mistakes. And it worked. She learned the context and memorized aviation vocabulary.

I also use this method for self-education. There are plenty of bilingual websites in different areas.

Is it effective to use Google translate for foreign language learning?

Nowadays we have many translation toais like Google Translate. To my mind, they are useful when there are more than 60% of unknown words in text. Word-to-word translation can help you to find out the main idea of the text. As for me, if the topic is familiar, translation by Google only distracts attention from the text, because it makes you smile. lt's a kind of professional humor to paste some text in Google Translate and laugh at the result with all the colleagues in office.

_{Adapted from: https:llbilingua.io/foreign-language-learning­translation. Access: February 3, 2020.}

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