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students will watch a video and learn about the challenges of translation while learning vocabulary
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students will watch a video and learn about the challenges of translation while learning vocabulary
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Translations challengesVideo length
5 minutes 54 seconds
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10/04/2021
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1. Fill the gap.
The authorized translations came from separatehouses with little oversight from the author.
2. Fill the gap.
So translators were not only tasked with adapting the text from english into theirlanguages and cultures,
3. Fill the gap.
Harry, Hermione, and Ron mostly stayed the same across languages, with small changes todifferent alphabets and phonetics.
4. Fill the gap.
As you can tell, both solutionsRowling's alliteration.
5. Fill the gap.
The house names and founders, also experienced uniquein some of the target languages.
6. Fill the gap.
" OWLS and NEWTS, standardized tests in the wizarding world, weren't always able totheir animal acronyms.
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But in Swedish theirmeanings remained while the wording was changed.
8. Fill the gap.
The infamous anagram of Tom Marvolo Riddle's name wasby many translators to achieve the same revelation of I Am Lord …
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" and in French he is Tom Elvis Jedusorwhich was extra clever because "Jeu du sort" meansriddle.
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, the Harry Potter series is unmistakably British but translating that for a global group of readers wasn't easy.
11. Fill the gap.
Sometimes a foreign settingtranslation too.
12. Fill the gap.
Other translators chose to have Hagrid simply speak more, while others dropped his accent entirely.
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In the mainland Chineseof Harry Potter there were footnotes to explain puns and cultural references.
14. Fill the gap.
One thing that always seems to translate is the love fans around the world share forof "The Boy Who Lived.
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