Exercises
(work in pairs)
Finding definitions & translations on the
Internet in mono-/multilingual glossaries & parallel texts Exercise 1 - Finding glossaries
Using the Google glossary search
interface
at www.multilingual.ch,
find a definition of the English term "jumbo certificate of deposit".
(Field: finance)
Exercise 2 - Finding glossaries
Using the Google glossary search interface,
find a definition of the German medical term "Gonarthrose". Exercise 3 - Finding glossaries
Find a definition
(in English and then in German, French or Italian) of the English term
"whistleblower"
relating to company policy.
Exercise 4 - Finding abbreviations
What does
the English abbreviation "OSHA" stand for? (TIP:
use either the abbreviation or
glossary search interfaces) Exercise 5 - Finding the missing
word
Having
trouble with prepositions? Run a Google search specifically
targeting a website such as that of the English newspaper The Guardian, www.guardian.co.uk, to find
the missing word in the phrase: in accordance ... the new regulations Your
search criteria:
................................................................................................................................... Now
broaden your search to cover any word in the place of “new” (e.g.
relevant/applicable/…) Your
search criteria:
................................................................................................................................... Exercise 6 - Finding parallel
texts on different pages
Using the Google parallel text search
interface, find the German translation of " Exercise 7 - Finding translations
on the same page
Combine
the German Google glossary search
interface and the English keyword "UNHCR"
to discover the full German version of the English abbreviation. Exercise 8 - Finding parallel
texts on the same page
Searching
directly in Google or Google
Books (without the WWW Search Interfaces for Translators), use the list
of Search Engine Tricks for finding
bilingual glossaries/parallel texts on the same page to find a German
translation of the English term "whistleblower". Include both spellings and
singular/plural. Alternatively,
follow the same procedure to find a translation in French. Your
search criteria:
...................................................................................................................................
Exercise 9 - Finding parallel
texts on a specific website
In Your search
criteria (directly in Google):
.....................................................................................................
Exercise 10 - Finding parallel
texts on different pages
Using the Italian-French
Google parallel text search interface, find the French translation of
the Italian "casellario giudiziale".
Exercise 11 - Finding bilingual
glossaries/parallel texts on the same page
Searching
directly in Google (NOT with the
WWW Search Interfaces for Translators), use the list of Search Engine Tricks for finding
bilingual glossaries/parallel texts on the same page to locate an Italian
or German translation of the English term "punitive damages". Your
search criteria: .................................................................................................................................... Exercise 12 - Finding parallel
texts on the same page
Searching
directly in Google (without the
WWW Search Interfaces for Translators), use the list of Search Engine Tricks for finding parallel
texts on the same page to locate a French translation of the German
phrase "untersteht schweizerischem Recht". TIP: To broaden your
search, instead of searching for the exact phrase, remove the term "schweizerischem" and replace it with any term by inserting
the word wildcard "*" in its place. Your
search criteria (directly in Google): ....................................................................................................
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