Meaning-Based Translation Workbook

This is a good companion workbook for the Larsen's book by the same title. Larsen has years of field experience as a linquist and translator. Built upon the work of predicessors, she does a very good job or breaking down what can be a daunting subject. Some excercises seem a bit criptic in their instruction, but this is a good worktext for a class assisted instuction on the subject of translation, which is how it is intended by the author to be used.

Someone made the comment that this work was an attempt to promote the Bible. I can see how someone could think that, since the author spent years translating the Bible into various languages (not to mention the Bible is the most translated book in history). However, the work book comes with a sticker on it that tells you these are Bible based excercises, just as the picture suggests.

Larsen's actual textbook (by the same title) is much more generic to applying the information strictly from language to language. It is an excellent work.

This title is great, Mildred Larson is an authority and she deserves all my professional respect but there were no HINT in the description that this workbook uses THE BIBLE as source book. I teach translation in Mexico and religion is such an incendiary topic. I wish there was another version of this workbook, using material different from religious topics.