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William Tyndale tops king Henry VIII's "Most Wanted" list in 1535 and is being pursued across Europe by the king's bounty hunters. William's "crime" is translating the Bible into English for the common people. This episode follows William's adventures as he worked in secret, moving from town to town as a fugitive to avoid capture. Friends and allies help him along, but enemies may be lurking around any corner.
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Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreting - A Short Course is the essential step-by-step guide to the skill of note-taking, suitable for all students of conference interpreting. The system, made up of a range of tried and tested techniques, is simple to learn, consistent and efficient. Each chapter presents a technique, with examples, tasks and exercises. The book uses English throughout, explaining how and where to locate material for other languages,...
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Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events. Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where snow never falls? Who, or what, is Kuzma's mother, and why was Nikita Khrushchev so threateningly obsessed with her (or it)? The course of diplomacy rarely runs smooth; without...
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"In Today's Towers of Babel, Lynne Sharon Schwartz has assembled sixteen stories and essays by prominent fiction writers and translators about the way in which translation operates in our lives. We come to see that translation lends itself to a wide variety of metaphorical uses, among them misunderstandings in love, war, and other major life events. In Joyce Carol Oates's story "The Translator, " a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in...
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Peter’s letters offer triumphant hope and grace to set you free-strengthening your faith and empowering your heart to soar. No matter what may be passing through in your life today, power from on high will help you overcome. Let Peter’s letters show you the way to love unending! John always points us back to the most important virtue of all: God’s love. He teaches us that nothing can defeat the love of God and that only perfect love has the...
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"'You don't have to use the exact same words.... But it has to mean exactly what I said.' Thus began the ten-year collaboration between Innu elder and activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue and Memorial University professor Elizabeth Yeoman that produced the celebrated Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive, an English-language edition of Penashue's journals, originally written in Innu-aimun during her decades of struggle for Innu sovereignty. Exactly...
60) The interpreters
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"The film follows Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who worked with U.S. forces, and who are now targeted by insurgents as a result. While some have reached safety, others are stuck in hiding--and those with no other hope have set out for Europe and the U.S. with the help of smugglers."--Publisher's website.