So you finally 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!!!!
So let's start with little light translation! Use the EU website to improve your ability to
produce correct English vocabulary, grammar and syntax.
The homepage of the EU website
Start with the EU homepage and all the documents linked it. Open the homepage in Italian and open it again in English on another page on your laptop. Translate from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian version to the English version to check. Of course, there will be some differences of style and occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested in identifying any really bad errors of vocabulary or grammar that you make (the errors will be mainly vocabulary) Make notes on your errors. You should also note any spelling you need to remember.
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
Then open all the
documents listed on on the homepage (and the ones connected to those!) in
Italian and English.
https://europa.eu/european-union/coronavirus-response_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/coronavirus-response_en
Sometimes you can
change the language of the document directly on that page, but other times you
have to go back to the original homepage in Italian or English and follow the
same series of steps to the document that you want. In the EU Newsroom some of
the documents are only in English, but the highlighted ones are in both
languages. See which documents are in both languages and which are only in
English on this page.
https://europa.eu/newsroom/home_en
Look at the articles
at the bottom in Special Coverage:
the EU/UK future relationship
https://ec.europa.eu/info/european-union-and-united-kingdom-forging-new-partnership_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/european-union-and-united-kingdom-forging-new-partnership_en
And the EU
response to Covid-19
https://europa.eu/european-union/coronavirus-response_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/coronavirus-response_en
The EU in 2019 (the General Report)
Don’t forget, if you need to expand your knowledge of basic vocabulary, go to the EU site in Italian and English, where you will find the 2019 EU General Report (134 pages). Open the report in Italian and open it again on another page in English on your laptop. Translate from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian version to the English version to check. Of course, there will be some differences of style and occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested in identifying any really bad errors of vocabulary or grammar that you make (the errors will be mainly vocabulary) Make notes on your errors. You should also note any spelling you need to remember.
https://op.europa.eu/it/publication-detail/-/publication/66c4ad7e-6281-11ea-b735-01aa75ed71a1/language-it
And then the 2018 EU General Report (154 pages)
then download the pdf format in both Italian and English
This will give you more than 150 pages of Italian to translate into
English! To check your translation just move between the Italian and English
version and take notes on regular language usage and differences. 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!)
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
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/european-green-deal-communication_en.pdf
The EU
Recovery plan
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_en
and all the
documents linked to this page
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
The UN
There is also
the UN Annual Report 2019 for note-taking on the language, unless you want to
translate from French or Spanish into English!
https://www.un.org/annualreport/
If you prefer you can go straight to the UN site 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)
and for listening practice, go to the UN audio section
https://news.un.org/en/audio-hub
https://news.un.org/en/audio-product/news-brief
You should also look at all the links on the right on both those pages
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 on your laptop, 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.
http://www.fao.org/news/archive/it/
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):
http://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1264625/icode/
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1264321/icode/
http://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1259827/icode/
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1259800/icode/
http://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1257915/icode/
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1257731/icode/
There ‘s also
the Bank of Italy site to explore
https://www.bancaditalia.it/homepage/index.html?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language=1
For example:
https://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/bollettino-eco-bce/2020/bol-eco-4-2020/index.html?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language=102
https://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/bollettino-eco-bce/2020/bol-eco-4-2020/index.html
NATO
The best I can do
for NATO is this:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=it&sl=en&u=https://www.nato.int/&prev=search&pto=aue
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