Blog 3

     I have had a fascination with translation for a long time; I have helped myself and other people since I was a kid in small and relatively unexciting day to day type living experiences where a second language came in handy.

      It more or less started when I first saw an episode of "I Love Lucy”, the one where Lucy and Ricky are vacationing in Paris and Lucy is arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit French franc that she had received from a man on the street who was exchanging American currency.

     This episode for me is a classic “I Love Lucy” show and I hold it up there with the “Chocolate Factory” and “Vitameatavegamin Girl” although the two latter episodes are always featured in stories about Lucille Ball or Desi Arnaz, but I don’t recall ever seeing the Translation episode among them.   It is still my favorite one.

     I am taking this ENG-213 as part of the language certificate course of study along with  majoring in education in order that somewhere along the line I can be looked upon as a resource in Spanish based on my certificate credentials and not be excluded based on my surname or appearance.

     This clip is only a minute or two and is subtitled in Spanish, but it is the only copy with good video and audio  quality I could find.

 

Blog 2

http://www.utdallas.edu/research/FAS/index.html

     This blog post is on the subject I casually heard about around 2 or 3 weeks ago while listening to morning radio so I decided to do a little research on it since it involves language.

     FAS (Foreign Accent Syndrome) the first time I ever heard of this condition was years ago somewhere TV or radio I don’t even remember, and when I heard it the first thought I had was this has to be a scammer.

     I thought this Foreign Accent Syndrome is just another hoax some goofball wacko who’s looking for public notoriety or possibly some sort of scam, needless to say I didn’t believe a word of it.

     In my research I did what any good GCC student would do I used my resources and used GOOGLE to pull up Wikipedia and to search for any videos and web sites that could provide me with information pertaining to FAS.   Pressed enter and magic happened.

     I came across a 60 Minutes TV episode when searching for videos which I thought was pretty good in showing several individuals who have FAS and giving a very good description and explaining what is really happening.

     All humor aside I also found a great site at the University of Texas in Dallas; this site has several resources, research, explanations, and auditory examples of other sufferers of FAS.

     Spoiler alert!   It’s only a foreign accent to the listener.  
 Here is the link for the 13 minute long 60 Minutes TV presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR_HyIyTSZg

also a separate shorter video :

 

 

 

Blog 1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/13/obamacares-spanish-language-web-site-is-written-in-spanglish/

 

Obamacare’s Spanish-language Web site is ‘written in Spanglish’

·         By Ezra Klein

·         January 13 at 9:09 am

 

I picked this article because of the Obama care connection, and because it had to do with the Obama care website Spanish language option.

     I found the article interesting because it reported that the Obama care website was using Spanglish in its Spanish language portion of the website.

     I do agree with the article when it stated that the word “prima” should not be used to translate the word premium because users of the website would confuse the word prima with its definition of female cousin.

     I would like to learn a little more about how the creators of the website are dealing with any complaints and how many other languages the site supports and how good the translation is.

     The major impact would certainly be in the U.S.  , but I can certainly see if the cost of healthcare get too expensive that it would have a ripple effect on economies in other parts of the world that being the U.S. having less purchasing power of goods from other countries.

Introductory Post

Hi I'm Don,

raised in California 20 years, spent 13 years in Virginia,  have been in Arizona for 21 years.

I speak english  & spanish

looking forward to learning alot about languages in this class.