Yeah, I attempted to start with Quijote in third-year Spanish, and that didn't go over well. I do like translating poetry, but I know I'll get all caught up in making it look pretty, when I really need sheer blocks of text just to practice on. Mostly I need to relearn the vocab I've forgotten over the years, and pick up some idioms, maybe. At least these translation tests are all foreign language-to-English, or so it seems...
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Date: 2008-01-02 05:49 am (UTC)