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Discovering Grammar Through Translation
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This project asks participants to translate English sentences into another language they speak. Here are some translations provided by LanguageARC participants. You can contribute by providing translations into new languages, translations for sentences not already covered or variants of already translated sentences. There are many ways to correctly translate a sentence into another language.
For the English sentence: “Mary used to greet James.” contributors offered these translations into French which differed in whether they translated the names, the verb they used for “greet” and whether they expressed the past habitual action (“used to”) using the French imparfait tense or the phrase “avoir l’habitude de”. Different translations could be due to synonymy in French, dialect differences, differences in formality and individual differences in the contributors’ knowledge of the source language (English) or the target (French). French native speakers contributed from North, North-Central and Northeast France and from abroad. Second language speakers contributed from the UK and Italy. Sometimes several contributors offered the identical translation.
Mary avait l'habitude de saluer James.
Mary avait l'habitude d'accueillir James
Marie accueillait James, avant.
Mary saluait James.
Marie souhaitait James.
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