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| Contentid | 3442 |
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| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Online Translator Activity |
| Body | A German teacher on the AATG listserv recently posted this message about an activity to discourage students from abusing online translators. Substitute an appropriate online translator for your language to modify it for your classes. ---- Have the students find the lyrics to their favorite songs and then put them through the translation treatment twice (first English to German, then that new German back into English). Seeing well-known lyrics reduced to mincemeat helped my students better understand why I react so violently to their use of online translators. Here's just one example of what happens (advance apologies to 80's one-hit-wonders, Katrina and the Waves, for the massacre to the first verse of "Walking On Sunshine"): ACTUAL LYRIC: I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby I'm sure And I just cant wait til the day when you knock on my door Now everytime I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down Cause I just can't wait till you write me you're coming around Im walking on sunshine whoa Im walking on sunshine whoa Im walking on sunshine whoa And dont it feel good THE GOOGLE-TASTIC VERSION: I maintained, possibly that to think, you me, now baby loved I am safe and I cannot wait ' until the day straight, if you knock on mine everytime of the door now, which I go for the mail box, receive, down ' to a cause hold themselves cannot I not straight to wait ', until you write me you around I go on Sonnenscheinwhoa to come, I on Sonnenscheinwhoa go, I on Sonnenscheinwhoa go and not it good to feel The activity is called "Why Online Translators and Music Don't Mix" and is available for download as a Word document on my site: http://teacherweb.com/WI/hhs/havas/Photo2.stm Havas, L.C. [AATG-L] Online translator activity. American Association of Teachers of German listserv. AATG@listserv.iupui.edu (28 Aug. 2005). |
| Source | Frau Havas |
| Inputdate | 2005-08-28 18:59:00 |
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