A Language Learning Tale

Podcast on YouTube: Link for YouTube Podcast on Spotify: Link on Spotify Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Bienvenidos, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… Translating into Your Target Language So, I’ve talked previously about foreign languages and translation and I’ve said that it’s always best to translate from a foreign language into your own to get the best translation and that this is the most useful exercise, because you’re trying to understand how people who speak that language actually phrase things. I still stick by this. But that doesn’t mean that translating into a foreign language is a complete waste of time. You just can’t expect to get the results you would doing it the other way and if you’re doing it on your own, there’s no one to tell you whether you’ve got it right or wrong. But, maybe you have a valid reaso...

Listen on YouTube: YouTube Link Listen on Spotify: Spotify Link Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome.   Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about…   IS TRANSLATION GOOD FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING? Absolutely. It’s concentrating on the detail of the language. It’s making you think about the language, rather than simply studying grammar. But what should you translate and which way? These are just my thoughts on the subject and may differ from what others think. As a general rule, if you were an actual translator as your profession, you would most likely be translating into your own language, because that’s the one you’re more competent in. Therefore, I would suggest that is the way you should go with translation for language learning, translate into your own language. If you want to write in the target language, I would suggest you do...