Mündliches Übersetzen, Homework for Week 5

*** To my Tuesday group: due to the national holiday, our next session will be on May 7th. Please prepare the homework from my post "Homework for Week 4" (not this post) in advance of our next session. ***

*** A note to my Wednesday group: our class will NOT meet on May 2nd, making our next session May 8th. Please complete the homework from this post in advance of that session. (Thank you to the students who brought my attention to this; it turns out that several instructors were not on the mailing list for the announcement.) ***

For homework, please continue where you left off with the English article "Slaver! Invader" (available here: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/24/slaver-invader-tour-guide-ugly-truth-empire-uncomfortable-art-tours-alice-procter translate the whole article, please) by translating aloud into German. Look up solutions AFTER you have made your way through the whole text. Bring in your top two questions concerning this text with you to class.

Secondly, translate the article "Lügen im Netz" up to "1000 Likes für sechs Dollar" (available here: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/luegen-im-netz-von-ingrid-brodnig-wie-ich-mir-2000-facebook-fans-kaufte-a-1203945.html ) into English aloud. Beware of traps with anglicisms: "Fans" are followers, "Buchungsportal" is a "booking platform", "User" are "users" (this error happens a lot when native German speakers say "teenager" instead of "teenagers" when speaking of more than one adolescents in English). "Postings" are not "postings" they are ... ? (Just like there's no such thing as a "brainstorming" in English, it's a ...?) "Indikator" is not an "indicator" in this context; consider what kind of "-ter" would be used in a weather context instead, taking into account the fact that German is accessing a weather metaphor with "Meinungsklima".

When looking up solutions, try using the online Oxford Collocations Dictionary http://www.freecollocation.com This site will provide you with words of varying word classes that collocate with the vocabulary in question, which is useful for translation, writing, and acquiring (and retaining) new words. (For example, entering "popularity" will yield expressions like "dwindling popularity," "popularity is waning," "a surge in popularity", which are all more sophisticated expressions that include this high-frequency noun.)