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"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." -Noam Chomsky
Aquí encontrarán un link a mi blog donde habrá actividades, información y la posibilidad de comentar.
Here you will find a link to my blog with activities and information open for comments.
"Other Latitudes: Argentinian Voices Around the 49th Parallel"
Anthology of Contemporary Writers, 2013. By Guillermo Bañuelos, Natalia Crespo, Margarita Feliciano, Julián Fernández, Claudio Andrés Kuczer, Nela Rio, María del Carmen Sillato, Pablo Urbanyi, and Marilyn Westlake.
Translated from the Spanish to English by: Andrea Pisera, Élizabeth Desbiens
Editor: Margarita Feliciano
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Which word will you use?
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Show it!
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POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET: Words, words, words.
(Hamlet –Act 2, Scene 2)
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Valentine's Day is on Thursday 14, 2013!
Valentine's Day is mentioned by Ophelia in Hamlet (1600–1601):
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Words+Prepositions:
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La amabilidad Nunca está de más...
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How to offer help in formal and informal situations?
4 easy phrases and expressions
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How are they referred to by Canadians? ¿Cómo las llaman los canadienses?
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Now, you can listen to Jorge Luis Borges in English
Jorge Luis Borges' 1967-8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary).
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Very much Canadian words!
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Difference between OTHER and ANOTHER:
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Vocabulary and Writing Games:
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"William Tyndale, was the most dangerous man in Tudor England" for his mission to translate the Bible into English. At:
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- A CONVERSATION WITH JULIO CORTÁZAR IN ENGLISH. At:
- "STYLE AND TRANSLATION-OTTAWA
A full-day workshop presented by Lisa Carter for ATIO"
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013
For more details, visit:
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"Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world." -Paul Auster
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Translation, by Umberto Eco. At:
- Translation into Spanish of Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness-La búsqueda por comprender la conciencia:
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El dilema de la traducción y la diáspora de la escritura
Leer autores de todas partes del mundo en nuestra lengua se presenta a nosotros como algo natural pero es un proceso complejo en el que participan diferentes actores. Por Susana Romano Sued, investigadora principal de CONICET. En
- Literary Presentations and Book Launchings
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Andrea Pisera: translator of the Anthology Other Latitudes: Argentinian Voices around the 49th Parallel (Spanish into English), attending its launching at Glendon College, York University-Toronto
- Panel Discussion
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Andrea Pisera participating at:
“Literary Translation: Experiences and Challenges”
At Glendon College-York University-Toronto
Andrea's topics:
theories of translation-taxonomies- subjectivity.
INTERNATIONAL BOOK DAY -2014
Glendon College, York University
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