Something to translate?

December 5, 2006 8:15 AM

Good sentences for translation practice?

I like to do language study, and one thing I find helpful when assimilating vocabulary and grammar is to translate sentences. But I find that books and articles often aren't too easy to translate, because of things like tense, word choice, etc. What I'd like are straightforward, preferably topical, sentences in English that would work well as translation exercises on my own. Are there lists of this that I don't know about?

posted by graymouser to writing & language (4 comments total)

I'd say visit many webpages in the desired language and translate as much as you want!
posted by PowerCat at 11:06 AM on December 5, 2006

What about translating children's books, which tend to use simpler grammar?
posted by joannemerriam at 6:43 PM on December 5, 2006

Have you tried Simple English?
posted by war wrath of wraith at 4:27 AM on December 6, 2006

war wrath,

Looks like that will be some good material. Thanks.
posted by graymouser at 6:49 AM on December 6, 2006