Mündliches Übersetzen, Homework for Week 4

For homework, please translate the article "Silberfund auf Rügen" distributed in class (available here: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/silberfund-von-ruegen-mehr-als-nur-schatzsuche-a-1203203.html translate to "150 aktive Ehrenamtliche") aloud into English. Give yourself 90 seconds to skim the article before you begin. time yourself (it's a good idea to keep track of your times over the course of the semester in order to track progress). Write down your top two questions to bring with you to next class.

As mentioned in class, there are several German cities which have a different English name or have a slightly different spelling in English. The most notable include: Munich, Brunswick (Braunschweig), Nuremberg, Hanover. Note that sometimes cities with umlauts are spelled with an "e" as in "Duesseldorf" or "Muenster" (this is irrelevant for mündliches Übersetzen, but note that an English speaker would not necessarily pronounce "Muenster" with the umlaut; both pronunciations would be fine for the exam but, as always, make sure your decisions are motivated and consistent).

For the remainder of the semester, it would be a good idea to read two general news articles (1 German, 1 English) and two specialized articles (1 German, 1 English) on your own to learn vocabulary, constructions, and varying sentence structures from.

Have a look at how inversion appears in English (and which adverbs trigger it) here: https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/inversion.html

I believe I wrote on the board last week that the verb "advocate" had its stress on "-cate". Both the verb and the noun have their stress on the first syllable; I apologize for the confusion.