Saturday, 2 April 2011

Learning A Language Has Now Become Easier

If you want to enhance your language learning skills and learn Spanish, German, French or any other language at a faster pace, then there is a solution. A subliminal message recording which enters your subconscious mind and increases your ability of absorbing language will be of great help.

The greatest tool of subliminal audio is the subliminal language learning. Many people have doubts regarding this approach of learning; it is hard to believe that an audio recording can help you learn a new language. However, science has answered all the questions raised regarding this subject. It has been proven that subliminal learning actually does help people learn faster, but everyone will have their own way of processing it. MP3 audios are simply a helping hand to make language for learning easy for you. Subliminal messages also improves the rate of learning and understanding of the language. One can learn by taking classes or through independent study, but this aid will help to relax the mind and absorb the knowledge easily and quickly.

These subliminal audios penetrate into your subconscious mind and help you develop a new way of thinking. This mild kind of hypnosis makes it easy for you to grab the new languages. Yes, this is a new and easy way of learning.

These help you study grammar as well as past, present and future tenses. You can enhance your language reading and understanding abilities.

This also encourages you to learn new things and enhance you language learning skills. Hence subliminal messages can dramatically speed up your learning abilities.

Top 5 Benefits Of Having A New Language For Learning

1. Job Expansion: Many large corporations and government agencies have positions that require a foreign language and in some countries you will have better employment prospects, which gives you the competitive edge.

2. Travel: If you can't understand the local speech, traveling in a foreign country can be either exciting or exasperating.

3. Self Development and Challenge: What could be more challenging and rewarding than immersing yourself in another language?

4. Culture Appreciation: You cannot truly appreciate a foreign culture if you don't know the language. Wouldn't you love to be able to watch a movie with subtitles and not have to read them?

5. Stimulate the Brain: Adults benefit from the brain stimulus produced by language training. Seniors who tackle a foreign language show improved brain function over a period of time.

Translation Services Through Crowd Sourcing

As a professional translator have you ever received an email asking you to provide your translation services to some company or organization voluntarily or in more simple words for free? If you have then you don't need an explanation, that's what you call translation service through crowd sourcing.

Companies, firms, organizations and institutions explain their cause and aims that they are willing to achieve and ask the public at large to provide translation services voluntarily so as to be a part of their noble cause. One of the best examples is Facebook. Users have been rendering their services voluntarily to Facebook for many years. Now you can use Facebook in dozens of languages and all this hard work has been done without any cost incurred by Facebook Inc.

After witnessing this scenario on the horizon of translation services, many other companies have started wondering if they can why not us? Why can't we get such costly services from the crowd for free? The main reason is the motivation. Any sane person on this planet isn't going to put forward himself for the job until there is some big motivation. You cannot just send an email or a letter to the public and ask them to render their services voluntarily until and unless there is something big behind this.

Apart from any noble cause there is also a fact that what an individual is looking for. You may not believe but there will be a few who would be doing this just for a past time and for fun or for self esteem. And there are people who would be looking to make their resumes more impressive from experience point of view as they would be able to mention that they have provided their services to the "big name" organization or company.

An interesting fact is that if you are getting translating services through crowd sourcing it almost costs as much as it costs through professional translation. Because you cannot trust on the credibility of the services provided so you have to get the translation services proof read. Apart from this there are other costs as well. Then why crowd sourcing? Sargent says about Facebook: "Free was not the point, time was. Work that was appearing to take months got started to be finished in days."

So you cannot cut costs by getting services through crowd sourcing, it's just the time and other benefits that you can get if you are a reputed organization.

Friday, 1 April 2011

How To Use The Subjunctive Tense In Spanish When Expressing Opinions

Today we are going to take another look at how to use the subjunctive tense in Spanish when expressing opinions. As many grammarians will insist, the subjunctive is actually a "mood" as opposed to a tense. The subjunctive tense or mood in Spanish is very useful for expressing opinions although this doesn't mean we always have to use it to express opinions. For example we use the Indicative with:

Para m? (For me)
En mi opini?n (In my opinion)
Desde mi punto de vista (From my point of view)
Also, some phrases need Indicative when they are affirmative:
Me parece que (I think that)
Creo que (I think /believe that)
Pienso que (I think that)

But the same phrases need Subjunctive when they are negative:

No me parece que (I don't think that)
No creo que (I don't think/believe that)
No pienso que (I don't think that)

So, let's imagine that on a T.V show some people are arguing about living in:

"El campo o la ciudad"(" The Country or The City")

Juan: "Yo creo que la ciudad es muy estresante, y lo mejor es vivir en el campo" (I think the city is very stressful, and it is best to live in the country)
Cecilia: "No me parece que vivir en el campo sea la mejor opci?n, porque hay pocas oportunidades laborales" (I do not think that living in the country is the best option, because there are few job opportunities)
Eduardo: "Pienso que el campo te da la satisfacci?n de una vida tranquila, mejor calidad de vida, no creo que el dinero y el trabajo sean lo m?s importante en la vida". (I think the country gives you the satisfaction of a quiet life, better quality of life; I do not think money and work are the most important things in life)

In addition to expressing opinions in a personal way, the subjunctive allows us to express impersonal views.

Es bueno que (It's good that)
Es malo que (It's bad that)
Es importante que (It's important that)
Es terrible que (It's terrible that)
Es triste que (It's sad that)
There are some exceptions that need Indicative:
Es verdad que (It's true that)
Es l?gico que (It's logical that)
Est? claro que (It's clear that)
Es obvio que (It's obvious that)

But be careful, these 4 structures need subjunctive if they are negative. Lets get back to our conversation about living in the "Country or City".

Juan: "Es importante que cualquier persona viva en un entorno saludable, de aire puro y sin ruidos molestos" (It is important that everyone lives in a healthy environment, with clean air and undisturbed by noise)
Eduardo: "Es triste que la gente se vuelva ego?sta en la ciudad" (It's sad that people become selfish in the city)
Cecilia: "No es verdad que la ciudad est? llena de gente ego?sta, es obvio que hay mucha competencia y hay mucha m?s diferencia de personalidades que en el campo" (It is not true that the city is full of selfish people, it is obvious that there is a lot of competition and there is much more of a difference of personalities than in the country.)

For further practice with Spanish's subjunctive the most helpful tools are Learning Spanish Like Crazy Level 2, FSI Spanish Level 2 and the Spanish Subjunctive Up Close by Eric Vogt, Ph.D.

Translation: Is It a Science or an Art?