previously i helped my pe lecturer translate her powerpoint slides to chinese, because she is going to Tianjin (which is in China) to give a guest lecture.
the moment i received her english slides and glanced through them, i was like: OMG! WASSUP!
cos there were 45 slides to be translated. ok lah minus away the references is 43 slides.
and i have to translate these very technical terms and teaching pedagogies like:
Games Concept Approach
Invasion Games
Net Barrier Games
Striking Fielding Games
Teaching Games for Understanding
Thinking Schools Learning Nation
Tactical Awareness
and blah blah blah... the list goes on and on. so its really not an easy job, but i am glad i still completed it over the weekend and sent it back to her before she went for her trip.
anyway i was not the first person to volunteer for this job when she asked the class for help. KC was the one who volunteered due to some special reasons which i am lazy to mention here cos it is a very very long story. but then KC also have a very important test coming up which will determine his future teaching career so he really has to study hard for it. so being his taiwan buddy, i volunteered to do the translation for him. haha.
so this afternoon, i received an email from my lecturer:
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Dear YY and KC,
Your work was a hit! The students and staff at Tianjin were very responsive to our work. One professor said that he felt very emotional when he saw that the slides were mainly in Chinese.
Thank you again for your thoroughness. You two contributed greatly to the success of my presentation.
I’ll contact you when Melvin is able to get the books in.
Best wishes,
My Lecturer (to conceal her identity so she wun find my blog hoho)
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there was really a great sense of satisfaction upon knowing that my translated slides were well-received in Tianjin.
and i will like to thank some pple who helped me in the translation:
1) darling, who has done translation before, and told me that translation is a very satisfying job, and gave me lots of encouragement, so i listened to her and tried my best, and indeed it is very satisfying.
2) huifen, for helping me to ask her china team-mate on the translation of some technical terms.
3) my fav xinyi, for helping me to find the official chinese translation for thinking schools learning nation.
4) my colleague at my ex-workplace, who is the HOD of mother tongue. i confirmed with her the official chinese translation for thinking schools learning nation.
ok so that's about it. translation do once in a while still ok. but do everyday i will definitely die. hahaha.
btw, for those who are interested to noe, the official chinese translation for "Thinking Schools, Learning Nation" is:
重思想的学校，好学习的国民
