Working languages: Spanish to English
English to Spanish
| Michael Torhan
Primero la idea, luego la palabra
Milpitas, California, United States Local time: 23:36 PDT (GMT-7)
Native in: English  | |
Specialist in translating the very technical or the very poetic. | Freelancer,  Verified site user | | Translation, Editing/proofreading, Website localization, Software localization | | Specializes in: | | Astronomy & Space | Tourism & Travel | | Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | Marketing / Market Research | | Internet, e-Commerce | Engineering (general) | | Computers (general) | Computers: Software | | Computers: Systems, Networks | Real Estate |
| Also works in: | | Business/Commerce (general) | Computers: Hardware | | Education / Pedagogy | Investment / Securities | | Poetry & Literature |
More Less | | PRO-level points: 138, Questions answered: 181 | Sample translations submitted: 2 | Spanish to English: Ciencias sociales. Arturo A. Fox. Latinoamérica: presente y pasado. | Source text - Spanish
La enseñanza bilingüe se anotó sus más importantes avances en el período que terminó a principios de los años 80, cuando, durante la recesión económica de aquellos años, empezó a cuestionarse la validez de las premisas que habían ocasionado la introducción de los costosos programas bilingües y la efectividad de los métodos que empleaban para conseguir sus objetivos. El bilingüismo sufrió un serio revés cuando en 1998 el estado de California decidió suprimir la enseñanza bilingüe y resultó que las notas escolares de los niños hispanos mostraron tendencia a aumentar, no a disminuir, cuando se los ponía en clases en que se usaba sólo la lengua inglesa. Pero tales resultados no son aún concluyentes, y es de esperar que el debate continúe. | Translation - English
Bilingual education had scored its most important advances by the early 1980s when, during the economic recession of those years, skeptics began questioning the very premises that had led to creating the costly bilingual programs and wondering about the effectiveness of the methods employed to achieve their objectives.
Bilingualism suffered a serious setback in 1998 when the state of California decided to discontinue bilingual education. Surprisingly, the grades of hispanic children showed a tendency to increase, not decrease, when they were put in English-only classrooms. But such results still remain inconclusive and it is expected that the debate will continue. | | Spanish to English: Literatura. Carlos Fuentes. La Muerte De Artemio Cruz. | Source text - Spanish
El tiempo que inventarás para sobrevivir, para fingir la ilusión de una permanencia mayor sobre la tierra: el tiempo que tu cerebro creará a fuerza de percibir esa alternación de luz y tinieblas en el cuadrante del sueño; a fuerza de retener esas imágenes de la placidez amenazada por los cúmulos concentrados y negros de las nubes, el anuncio del trueno, la posteridad del rayo, la descarga turbonada de la lluvia, la aparición segura del arco iris; a fuerza de escuchar las llamadas cíclicas de los animales en el monte; a fuerza de gritar los signos del tiempo: aullido del tiempo de la guerra, aullido del tiempo del luto, aullido del tiempo de la fiesta; a fuerza, en fin , de decir el tiempo, de hablar el tiempo, de pensar el tiempo inexistente de un universo que no lo conoce porque nunca empezó y jamás terminará: no tuvo principio, no tendrá fin y no sabe que tú inventarás una medida del infinito, una reserva de razón. | Translation - English
You will invent Time so that you may survive, pretending an illusion of a longer continuation on earth. Your mind's begotten Time establishes the means to perceive that certain alternation of light and darkness in a quadrant of your dream. By means of retaining those images of calmness, threatened by the cumulous concentration of black clouds, the announcement of thunder, the posterity of lightning, the discharge of a torrential downpour, the certain appearance of the rainbow; by means of listening to the rhythmic calls from the animals on the mount; by means of shouting the signs of the times; the howling from time of war; the howling from time of mourning; the howling from time of rejoicing. By means, at last, of giving Time a name, speaking of it, of contemplating the nonexistent Time in a universe that knows no Time, unknowable because it has neither beginning nor end. Time never began. Never will it finish. Nor will it know that you invent it as infinity's measure, your purpose undisclosed. |
More Less | | Years of translation experience: 3. Registered at ProZ.com: Mar 2007. | | N/A | | N/A | | N/A | | DejaVu, Frontpage, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, SDL TRADOS, Wordfast | | Michael Torhan endorses ProZ.com's Professional Guidelines (v1.0). | | About me
In my first career I would design and specify application software for the enterprise. Now, I translate the very kinds of technical documents I used to originate. My greatest strength with regard to translation is probably that I am familiar with how complex products are developed; I know what sort of content is expected from each document produced over a product's lifetime.
At the university I am majoring in Spanish, with a minor in Latin American studies; this latter rekindling my long-held interest in the Social Sciences.
Lastly, the sample literary translation included with my profile here shows how my admiration for other people's word-selection and phrasing influences my own creativity.
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