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When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own...

1. I'm not aware of a term for the difference between the two. Just use the two terms.2. You might say 'liberal', 'free' or 'up-to-date/modern/vernacular'.

Is there a difference between a word for word translation and literal translation?And what is called the translation that gives the general meaning in a more natural way?

Thank you very much, because I searched for the translation from portuguese 'celeiro' to english and they translated as granary, though I never had seen that word before, well barn I have seen before related to a farm..

Thank you Hoa Thai , But I don't think you understand exactly what I want to ask here . I just want to make sure whether or not these two sentences are grammatically correct and whether or not they sound natural to native speakers .As regards the meanings , I think it's quite clear . Of...

Stannum wrote: Chaskarmukund wrote:Let me ask a question. Why Muslilms believe in Allah and Why Christians believe in Jesus ChristI think that it is merely a translation thing. When you get down to it there is very little difference between Christianity and Islam. StannumI beg to differ.

Hi, When I first learned English, hear and listen were clear to me. The later requires the attentiveness of a listener. However, talk and speak ran my teacher in circle. He took an English-Vietnamese dictionary and told us to stick with the translation and then he failed to reason why some...

this is an answer to a number of the posts above. i taught the callan method in italy for a year 10 years ago and for a while in london. pros and cons? you can say that again... but i don't want to repeat what has already been said. book one works quite well, although it is outdated to say the...

Hi again, Actually, it is not my own composition but a translation. So I think I should keep some words that the original author wrote. I've put them in bold. Can you tell me whether they are awkward or not? OK, I'll just look at those. And after I read your comment, I found the word...

Hello, Clive. Thank you for your help. Actually, it is not my own composition but a translation. So I think I should keep some words that the original author wrote. I've put them in bold. Can you tell me whether they are awkward or not? And after I read your comment, I found the word...