{"id":12719,"date":"2020-05-26T11:37:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T10:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2020-10-01T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:10:43","slug":"hispanic-studies-alice-cooke-translation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/05\/26\/hispanic-studies-alice-cooke-translation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Studies student Alice Cooke wins translation challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/modern-languages\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a> are delighted to announce that second year Hispanic Studies student Alice Cooke has won the &#8216;Modern Languages translation challenge&#8217;. This was a challenge for Modern Languages Hispanic Studies students to translate a song from Spanish into English.<\/p>\n<p>Alice talks about her experience translating the song: &#8220;Whilst translating this song, I found it really satisfying that the beginner&#8217;s Catalan module that I took at Kent this year had paid off: one of my favourite things about learning languages is the moment when you can read a whole piece of writing in your target language and realise afterwards that you understood it! As Castillian Spanish was the first language I learned (if we&#8217;re not counting English), I found that it was difficult to not confuse words that occur in both languages. For example, &#8216;por&#8217; meaning &#8216;fear&#8217; in Catalan and &#8216;for\/by&#8217; in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Doing short translations like this are very useful, as they put you in the mindset to practice your target language, without being overwhelmingly long.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Modern Languages are delighted to announce that second year Hispanic Studies student Alice Cooke has won the &#8216;Modern Languages translation challenge&#8217;. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/05\/26\/hispanic-studies-alice-cooke-translation-challenge\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":12721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237575,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12724,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions\/12724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}