mercoledì 4 marzo 2020

Are you wondering what to do for the next 10 days?

So finally you have time to read all your economics, international law and history books and ….... DO ALL THAT TRANSLATION AND/OR NOTE-TAKING WORK THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN SEPTEMBER!!!!

There's the EU site in Italian and English to practise your translation skills and learn the right vocabulary and phraseology for international relations

So if you need to expand your knowledge of basic grammar and international relations vocabulary, go to the EU site where you will find the 2018 EU General Report (154 pages). If clicking on a link here doesn't work or is very slow, just copy and paste the link onto Google search.
then download the pdf format in both Italian and English
This will give you more than 150 pages of Italian to translate into English! Open the Italian and English texts on different pages. Translate from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian to the English text to check. Make notes on your vocabulary and grammar errors. Note any spelling you need to remember.. You can also download the French, Spanish or German versions.
And here's the 2017 General Report (130 pages)
And here's the 2016 General Report (104 pages)
You can also get the General Reports for 2015 (96 pages) and 2014 (288 pages!)
Remember, if you prefer, you can go straight to the English version of the 2018 EU General Report or other texts on the EU site or UN site and simply start taking notes on common expressions used in diplomatic English. See my future post about the UN website for a little more information about how to get documents.

There's also the European Green Deal in Italian and English


There's also the  FAO in Italian and English to practise your translation skills

The articles listed on the FAO archive page here are also available in English. Click on the article you want to get it in Italian and then open the site on another page, go to the article again and click on 'English' at the top to get the English version. Translate from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian to the English text to check. Make notes on your vocabulary and grammar errors. Note any spelling you need to remember.

There are also all the articles from previous years if you click on the year on the left.

Some examples from 2020 (but there are lots more):



If you prefer you can go straight to the UN sites and simply read and take notes on the vocabulary and phraseology that they use. Start with the UN News Centre:

https://news.un.org/en/news (click on the right for stories from previous years)


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