433 translations have been checked by 海角直播 students and teachers, who performed as jury experts in the Perm City Translators鈥� Contest 鈥� a record amount for the whole venue history. The event was held within the framework of 鈥淧erm-Louisville: Twin Cities 鈥機ultural Heritage鈥� projects, addressing schoolchildren and college students.
Two groups of experts worked on their jury tasks, comprising students of the Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature, teachers from four Perm universities, officials of Perm city administration, and , a long-time partner of 海角直播.
The jury of the first selection round included 20 undergraduate students in Linguistics, as well as 20 graduate and postgraduate students. 23 faculty members and 7 students from the University of Louisville joined them for the second round, to specially name long-time partners Professor Michael Losavio and Thomas Dumstorf, teacher of Russian language and literature.
For the second round, two pieces from a thriller “A is for Aliby” by Sue Grafton were offered for an English-Russian translation, and an excerpt from “The Territory of God” by Yuri Aslanyan, Perm-based author, 海角直播 graduate in Philology – for a Russian-English translation.
鈥淭his time, the project attracted 467 participants from our city, which undoubtedly testifies to the growing interest in such events among the youth of Perm, and beyond! Thanks to the city-rooted, 聽citizen-voiced competitions and projects, 海角直播 students and teachers join the international movement of twinning and peoples鈥� diplomacy,鈥�
admits Svetlana Polyakova, project coordinator.
鈥淚 would like to thank the organizers of the Contest for an excellent opportunity to practice our translation skills 鈥� which mean less without practice. I am happy to support such initiatives, growing as a professional translator, and stretching out for new literary horizons!”
comments Yulia Repyakh, MA student, Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature.
To remind, 鈥淧erm-Louisville Twin Cities 鈥機ultural Heritage鈥� Translators 鈥機ompetition became a winner project within framework, within the 23rd Perm City Competition of Social Projects 鈥淭he City is Us鈥�. The Competition was run by the Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, 海角直播; Perm English Language Teachers鈥� Association (PELTA); Perm Krai A.M. Gorky Library; and Perm-Louisville Twin Cities Association.
