History of Translation

  • 3100 BCE

    1st TRANSLATION

    1st TRANSLATION
    Egyptian culture 3100 B.C., there was to
    believe the in order to share knowledge to
    earth, God’s
  • Period: 347 BCE to

    FAMOUS TRANSLATORS

    Through time there have been people focused on translation
  • 300 BCE

    Early

    Early
    The Mesopotamian era when the Sumerian poem, Gilgamesh, was translated into Asian languages.
    the Greeks were conquered by Arabics the translations os scholars were use to scientific approaches
  • 201

    RELIGIOUS

    RELIGIOUS
    Old Testament which was translated into Greek
    this translation was carried out by no less than 70
    scholars who painstakingly
  • 347

    ST JEROME

    ST JEROME
    spoke Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. Jerome translated the Bible
    from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. The official catholic translations
  • 1531

    GASPAR ANTONIO CHI

    GASPAR ANTONIO CHI
    Yucatan Indian who interpreted between Spanish and Mayan. interpreter of King Charles V of Spain and an informant for Diego de Landa
  • Sacagawea

    Sacagawea
    interpreter and guide with an amazing knowledge of the lands. interpreted during the negotiations and tribes
  • Alexander Burnes

    Alexander Burnes
    British interpreter, He later became a spy for the British military He
    spoke English, Hindi, and Persian
  • Jorge Luis Borges

    Jorge Luis Borges
    He translated Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince into Argentinian
    Spanish at the age of 9. Later in his life he translated the works of
    other authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Virginia
    Woolf.
  • 20th CENTURY

    20th CENTURY
    Second war "the era of translation" to conquest and use in court
  • ACTUALLY

    Ellis (1996) suggested that grammar teaching can enhance learner proficiency Brown (1994) and Larsen-Freeman (1991) discuss the need for grammar teaching along with communicative tasks Doughty and Williams (1998) discuss how „focus on form‟ instruction should be integrated into language teaching.