Today we finished our big week of learning and sharing knowledge about literacy and translation. We brainstormed words in Yolŋu languages to talk about principles of translation: accuracy, clarity, and naturalness. We also talked about ways to explain a text’s purpose, style and impact in Yolŋu languages, to help guide translators in their work. We finished the week off by putting all these new skills into practice by working as a group on a few texts that needed translating from English into Yolŋu languages.rnrnWe were so lucky to have experienced, senior translators and language workers guiding us all week: we all learn a lot from them, and each other. Thankyou to Living Languages and the Federal Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts program for this special opportunity – this workshop was a first for ARDS, but we have lots of ideas about doing it again one day!
