[Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim]

Originally Posted by Anglika

I think we are all a bit busy at the moment!

However, have a look at these:

Reading Comprehension Skills

What are comprehension skills?

Study Skills - Reading Comprehension


What Every Novice Translator Should Know

Improving Writing Skills - Effective Writing & Written Communication Mind Tools

If you want to post anything you write for comment, you are very welcome to do so. Just make sure we know what you are asking us to do.

I wonder Angelika how you find all those great websites. I make use of them but often forget the links. Have you collected them as link resources somewhere we can go to? Thanks

Broadly speaking everything is a translation or rendering. Food is rendered into energy. Linguistically translation often compromises ie betrays the original text especiially literary texts because it ignores the melody of the original. Thus a literary text has to be rendered twice:
1. Translation for capturing meaning
2. Translation for capturing at least some of the melody of the original

A literary text should be read as far as possible in its original. This involves learning a new language since some ideas and concepts cannot be translated because they are not found in other languages.