Leave the Denglish Behind: Translation and Writing Strategies (Part 3)
Students will recognize common structures of English and how these make writing sound more idiomatic, practice using these structures in a variety of sample sentences and texts, and become familiar with resources to use to ensure their writing/translation is idiomatic. A special focus will be looking at how to use these strategies in combination with AI tools like deepl.
Have you ever been told that your writing or translation is too nominal or impersonal? Or that your English sounds like Denglish? Do you wish that your writing sounded more idiomatic? If so, this workshop is for you. We will look at how you can best link sentence elements and improve flow, ways to incorporate a more verbal style, how to avoid nouns modifying nouns, and much more. We will analyze common structures and word order using authentic samples and consider how these structures are different in German and English. By the end of this three-part workshop series, you will have a list of strategies that you can refer to regularly to make your writing and/or translations more idiomatic and will have considerably improved your text. But don’t worry, if you can only make it to one of the workshops. They are designed to work as stand-alone workshops as well.
Join us here: https://uni-leipzig.zoom.us/j/9624530131?pwd=RElOMUNrU0JNVGNEbFpobUs2dWNzZz09