lost in translation studies

Did I tell you I got a new translating job?  It's just a volunteer thing for now but it'll give me practice and look good on my resume.  It's for a news website called Watching America.com   Here's my first article, translated from El Universal in Venezuela.  This is my second "official" translating gig.  (The first was for a musical group from Colombia; I translated their website (which currently doesn't work!) and wrote about it in this post)

So then I found out about this.  I could get a certificate in this. Translation Studies.  (This is quite typical of me.  To just keep going through life studying and getting certificates and never getting around to getting an actual paying job using any of them!  Instead what do I do?  Dogsit and clean houses!)

Anyway I just think it's kinda cool.  I mean language is kinda cool.  Language is very cool.  Language is everything, ya know?  Language is thought and thought is language.  Hey, all my fellow bookworms... it's just like when you first learned to read.  It opened up infinite new worlds didn't it?  And now you can't imagine not knowing how to read.  Well, I can still remember plenty well how it was to only speak one language 'cause I learned pretty late in life, but it's true that having a second really opens up infinite new worlds. Like you know how cool it is to not have to depend on the subtitles?  You know how cool it is to notice when they skip sentences in the subtitles or word things differently?  That is pretty damn cool.

Speaking of subtitles in movies, I saw this movie last night.  It was pretty sappy and sentimental but it was good.   I'm trying to see all the Argentinian movies in the library collection.  I have yet to see a movie from Argentina I didn't like.  I'm sure it will happen eventually but until then I'm convinced that Argentinian cinema rocks!  This guy is becoming a favorite actor and this guy, for me, rivals Gabriel Garcia Bernal for cuteness ever since I saw Nine Queens (one of my all time favorite movies).  Es su accento, creo.  I'm a sucker for cute accents.  Talk to me with an accent from Spain, Mexico or Argentina and I just melt. It's just sexy. Punto.

Comments

[Jenny]

Very cool. I was hanging out in Panera bread today and the man behind me apologized for speaking in a foreign langauge. I told him it didn't bother me at all - turns out it was Persian and then we started talking about Arabic, French, Italian and how great it is to know more than one langauge. One day I want to be at least passable in one other language besides English (my son already knows more Arabic than I do).

[Steve]

A couple more Argentine flicks you should check out...

Felicades - A Robert Altman-type movie about characters with intersecting lives

Hijo de la novia - A wedding is in the works, provided the family can overcome all the obstacles in their path

You won't be disappointed.