For week 2, please upload your translation of the following two paragraphs:
At the level of the leaves and petals, Hungary looks foreign enough to tourists to justify their visit. The churches are yellow, with spires that sit on cushions; and public buildings are distinctive, in a cluttered neo-classical, art deco, baroque sort of way – but to most westerners, the country will not seem exotic. Hungarians look and dress and behave like most Frenchmen, or Germans, or Poles; they have cafés and cars, and bookshops and theatres, and houses with gardens and flats without, and roads and pavements, and water-taps and light-switches. Hungary is a recognisably European country – and this is precisely as Hungarians want it to be.
Visitors who stay a few days in the country, though, begin to notice things that are different, and the more things they notice that are different, the more they might wonder whether these differences are systematic, and whether they may signal other more fundamental differences below the level of the leaves and petals. Take the above examples of water-taps and light-switches: I asked a young woman who had just returned from her first visit to Britain what she had noticed about the way we do things that was different from the way she was used to. ‘The taps,’ she said, immediately; ‘you have two taps, one on each side of the basin, one hot and one cold. We have only one, for hot and cold.’ I had to think about this: was it true? Then I realised that I was missing the point: it was true for this young woman; it was what she had noticed, and, as far as she was concerned, it was odd.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Friday, November 27, 2009
Week 13 - Official documents / EU texts
Please read this carefully!
The session on December 2nd is cancelled due to a faculty meeting at 10am. The test in guided translation is cancelled. Instead, please translate the paragraphs below, and-
1) send your translations as "comments" to this blog entry;
2) leave a hard copy of your translation in my office (A/6 Room 1) or in my mailbox (A/6 Room 9) printed out and signed. Deadline for submission: 2nd December 2pm. Late submissions will not be considered. Instead of the in-class test, this take-home test will provide your final grade in this term.
The creation and growth of a unified Europe has brought many opportunities. The freedom for people to move across the borders of individual Member States, to seek opportunities and to work in bigger markets is now an everyday reality.
However, positive gains have sometimes been accompanied by unwelcome consequences to which we must show zero tolerance. Some people have sought to take advantage of our freedoms and make a profit. People smugglers and human traffickers work differently but both seek to exploit human vulnerability for money. People smugglers provide illicit transport to those trying to cross borders illegally – often because these people are ignorant of, or excluded from legal migration channels. Human traffickers, on the other hand, use coercion, deception and often brute force to transport children, adolescents and adults within countries or across borders in order to exploit them – in agriculture, manufacturing, street trades, begging and prostitution.
Victims are often women and teenage girls whose vulnerability, restricted access to legitimate jobs and often inferior family status, coupled with a thriving commercial sexual market, underpin the lucrative ‘business’ of trafficking in Europe. Europe has rightly labelled human trafficking as the ‘modern slave trade’ and, like slavery, it must be abolished. We have a moral duty to tackle human trafficking. As part of our focus on protecting the rights of children, we must prevent traffickers exploiting and abusing them.
We must help the victims of trafficking. A landmark Communication from the Commission in November 1996 put the trafficking of females for sexual exploitation firmly on to the European political agenda. The Communication places human trafficking in the context of gendered violence, organised crime, labour migration and law enforcement. We need to understand the full extent of trafficking as a heinous crime in order to prosecute it effectively. Society must be inclusive of trafficking victims. Only with the possibility of escape and protection will there be co-operation with the police.
The session on December 2nd is cancelled due to a faculty meeting at 10am. The test in guided translation is cancelled. Instead, please translate the paragraphs below, and-
1) send your translations as "comments" to this blog entry;
2) leave a hard copy of your translation in my office (A/6 Room 1) or in my mailbox (A/6 Room 9) printed out and signed. Deadline for submission: 2nd December 2pm. Late submissions will not be considered. Instead of the in-class test, this take-home test will provide your final grade in this term.
The creation and growth of a unified Europe has brought many opportunities. The freedom for people to move across the borders of individual Member States, to seek opportunities and to work in bigger markets is now an everyday reality.
However, positive gains have sometimes been accompanied by unwelcome consequences to which we must show zero tolerance. Some people have sought to take advantage of our freedoms and make a profit. People smugglers and human traffickers work differently but both seek to exploit human vulnerability for money. People smugglers provide illicit transport to those trying to cross borders illegally – often because these people are ignorant of, or excluded from legal migration channels. Human traffickers, on the other hand, use coercion, deception and often brute force to transport children, adolescents and adults within countries or across borders in order to exploit them – in agriculture, manufacturing, street trades, begging and prostitution.
Victims are often women and teenage girls whose vulnerability, restricted access to legitimate jobs and often inferior family status, coupled with a thriving commercial sexual market, underpin the lucrative ‘business’ of trafficking in Europe. Europe has rightly labelled human trafficking as the ‘modern slave trade’ and, like slavery, it must be abolished. We have a moral duty to tackle human trafficking. As part of our focus on protecting the rights of children, we must prevent traffickers exploiting and abusing them.
We must help the victims of trafficking. A landmark Communication from the Commission in November 1996 put the trafficking of females for sexual exploitation firmly on to the European political agenda. The Communication places human trafficking in the context of gendered violence, organised crime, labour migration and law enforcement. We need to understand the full extent of trafficking as a heinous crime in order to prosecute it effectively. Society must be inclusive of trafficking victims. Only with the possibility of escape and protection will there be co-operation with the police.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Week 12 - Official documents
For next week (25 Nov.) please revise your earlier translations of the EU text in discussion but do not re-send your work. No new written task for next week. In the session on 25 Nov., you are going to do a guided trasnlation of extracts from the EU text that we have been dealing with.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Week 11 - Official documents / EU texts
For Week 11 (18 Nov.) please read the following paragraphs and correct the translations below, and send your works as "comments" to this blog entry. Please send your comments BEFORE 18 November, as late postings will not be considered.
This must, of course, be done in collaboration with all the agencies involved and ideally it should lead to some agreed parameters for data collection and storage. This is vital because the complex nature of trafficking and exploitation – cutting across law enforcement, labour sector, human rights, health and social boundaries – calls above all for centralised coordination and analysis. The experience of those countries that have put in place national task forces or coordinating bodies for trafficking issues should provide valuable lessons in the next few years.
Programmatically, there is a continued need not to focus too narrowly on ‘trafficking’ as a phenomenon and forget the importance of dealing with the root causes of trafficking and exploitation both at origin and destination – social factors such as systems that leave people, especially women, with inappropriate or no qualifications; few job opportunities; family poverty; and misinformation. In destination countries, also, there is an urgent need to focus more on reducing demand for under-priced and illegal labour. This must involve those bodies that can influence the markets – trade unions, consumer associations, chambers of commerce, employers’ organisations and others. Ministries of Labour should be brought more often into discussions and actions relating to trafficking. Where there is no demand, traffickers will not be able to make money and most commentators agree that taking away the profit is the best deterrent.
Ezt persze minden egyesület közreműködésével kellene létrehozni, és ideális esetben kölcsönösen elfogadott paraméterek születhetnek az adat rögzítésére valamint tárolására. Ez azért lényeges mert az emberkereskedelem és kizsákmányolás teljes folyamata –szembeszegülés a törvénnyel és a dolgozói szervezettel, valamint áthágása az emberi jogoknak illetve az egészségügyi és társadalmi korlátoknak- elsődlegesen központosított irányítást és elemzést igényel. Azon az országok tapasztalata, melyek nemzeti munkacsoportokat vagy a csempészettel foglalkozó koordinációs szerveket állítottak fel, értékes tanulságként szolgálhatnak az elkövetkező néhány évben.
Tulajdonképpen folyamatos igény van arra, hogy az embercsempészet, mint jelenség ne kapjon ilyen mértékű figyelmet, illetve, hogy feledkezzenek meg az embercsempészet és a kizsákmányolás alapvető okaival foglalkozó vizsgálatok jelentőségéről, mind eredetben, mind következményben.Ezen társadalmi tényezők, mint szervezetek, melyek magára hagyják az embereket, főleg a nőket, kevés vagy semmiféle képesítéssel,kevés munkalehetőséggel,családi szegénységgel és félrevezető tájékoztatással.Ehhez szükség van azon testületekre, melyek hatással lehetnek a piacra, ilyenek például a szakszervezetek, fogyasztói egyesületek, kereskedelmi kamara, munkáltatói szervezetek, stb.A célországokban sürgető igény van az alul fizetett és törvénytelen munka csökkentésére is.A Munkaügyi Minisztériumokat sokkal gyakrabban kellene embercsempészettel kapcsolatos tárgyalásokba és intézkedésekbe bevonni.Ahol nincs rá igény, ott a csempészek képtelenek lesznek pénzt keresni és a legtöbb kommentátor egyetértett abban, hogy az elrettentés legjobb eszköze a profit megvonása.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Week 10 - Official documents - EU texts
For the next session on 11 November, please-
- each team check, correct and mark the team translations received today. Please also justify your mark. Please also indicate your names.
- individually, please translate these paragraphs and send your work as "comments" to this blog entry. Please also bring the English text and your own translation for the seminar.
Although this report has highlighted the paucity of useable data on trafficking and labour exploitation in Europe, this section will not begin with a call for more data. It is clear that data do exist – in police and court records, in the records of health and social services, as a result of helplines, hotlines, drop-in centres, refuges and shelters, and in other places where victims and perpetrators come into contact with various services. What is needed is a ‘clearing house’ mechanism or function – at national and regional levels – to bring these data together, analyse and consolidate them, and transform them into useful and useable information.
This must, of course, be done in collaboration with all the agencies involved and ideally it should lead to some agreed parameters for data collection and storage. This is vital because the complex nature of trafficking and exploitation – cutting across law enforcement, labour sector, human rights, health and social boundaries – calls above all for centralised coordination and analysis. The experience of those countries that have put in place national task forces or coordinating bodies for trafficking issues should provide valuable lessons in the next few years.
Programmatically, there is a continued need not to focus too narrowly on ‘trafficking’ as a phenomenon and forget the importance of dealing with the root causes of trafficking and exploitation both at origin and destination – social factors such as systems that leave people, especially women, with inappropriate or no qualifications; few job opportunities; family poverty; and misinformation. In destination countries, also, there is an urgent need to focus more on reducing demand for under-priced and illegal labour. This must involve those bodies that can influence the markets – trade unions, consumer associations, chambers of commerce, employers’ organisations and others. Ministries of Labour should be brought more often into discussions and actions relating to trafficking. Where there is no demand, traffickers will not be able to make money and most commentators agree that taking away the profit is the best deterrent.
- each team check, correct and mark the team translations received today. Please also justify your mark. Please also indicate your names.
- individually, please translate these paragraphs and send your work as "comments" to this blog entry. Please also bring the English text and your own translation for the seminar.
Although this report has highlighted the paucity of useable data on trafficking and labour exploitation in Europe, this section will not begin with a call for more data. It is clear that data do exist – in police and court records, in the records of health and social services, as a result of helplines, hotlines, drop-in centres, refuges and shelters, and in other places where victims and perpetrators come into contact with various services. What is needed is a ‘clearing house’ mechanism or function – at national and regional levels – to bring these data together, analyse and consolidate them, and transform them into useful and useable information.
This must, of course, be done in collaboration with all the agencies involved and ideally it should lead to some agreed parameters for data collection and storage. This is vital because the complex nature of trafficking and exploitation – cutting across law enforcement, labour sector, human rights, health and social boundaries – calls above all for centralised coordination and analysis. The experience of those countries that have put in place national task forces or coordinating bodies for trafficking issues should provide valuable lessons in the next few years.
Programmatically, there is a continued need not to focus too narrowly on ‘trafficking’ as a phenomenon and forget the importance of dealing with the root causes of trafficking and exploitation both at origin and destination – social factors such as systems that leave people, especially women, with inappropriate or no qualifications; few job opportunities; family poverty; and misinformation. In destination countries, also, there is an urgent need to focus more on reducing demand for under-priced and illegal labour. This must involve those bodies that can influence the markets – trade unions, consumer associations, chambers of commerce, employers’ organisations and others. Ministries of Labour should be brought more often into discussions and actions relating to trafficking. Where there is no demand, traffickers will not be able to make money and most commentators agree that taking away the profit is the best deterrent.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Week 7 - Journalism
For next week (21 October) please translate the following passages and send your translations as "comments" to this blog entry. Please bring your work and the original English text with you to the session.
Sports doctors consulted by BBC Sport have said the former Manchester United and Real Madrid maestro will find it increasingly difficult to perform at his peak as the short-term and long-term effects of air travel mount up. They have also warned he will become more susceptible to injury - and his body will be less able to recover from injury - as he criss-crosses the globe.
But Beckham's spokesman, Simon Oliveira, told BBC Sport: "We are not worried. David is very confident he will be in peak condition - both for England and his club."
And Lalas said he thought the player would relish the challenge of combining international duty with his Galaxy exploits. He did, however, warn there could come a time when the club would have to say no to their star's trips back to England for friendly matches. "We would never stand in the way of a player representing their country," Galaxy boss Lalas told BBC Sport. "And David's love of England and the honour that it is for him to represent his country is evident from the first time you talk to him. But there will certainly be moments when we need to sit down with him and do what's best for our organisation and him. There are Fifa dates that we have to abide by and will continue to do so. But if it is a friendly game that doesn't fall on a Fifa date that is obviously something we will have to discuss with the player. We have a vested interest in this player and we have spent a tremendous amount of money to retain his services. We want to make sure we get our money's worth and that he is healthy and both physically and mentally ready to go when he plays for the Galaxy."
Sports doctors consulted by BBC Sport have said the former Manchester United and Real Madrid maestro will find it increasingly difficult to perform at his peak as the short-term and long-term effects of air travel mount up. They have also warned he will become more susceptible to injury - and his body will be less able to recover from injury - as he criss-crosses the globe.
But Beckham's spokesman, Simon Oliveira, told BBC Sport: "We are not worried. David is very confident he will be in peak condition - both for England and his club."
And Lalas said he thought the player would relish the challenge of combining international duty with his Galaxy exploits. He did, however, warn there could come a time when the club would have to say no to their star's trips back to England for friendly matches. "We would never stand in the way of a player representing their country," Galaxy boss Lalas told BBC Sport. "And David's love of England and the honour that it is for him to represent his country is evident from the first time you talk to him. But there will certainly be moments when we need to sit down with him and do what's best for our organisation and him. There are Fifa dates that we have to abide by and will continue to do so. But if it is a friendly game that doesn't fall on a Fifa date that is obviously something we will have to discuss with the player. We have a vested interest in this player and we have spent a tremendous amount of money to retain his services. We want to make sure we get our money's worth and that he is healthy and both physically and mentally ready to go when he plays for the Galaxy."
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Week 6 - Journalism
For 21 October (Wed.) please translate the text below and send your translations as "comments" to this blog entry. Please bring this original text as well as your translation to the next session.
"Beckham's air miles"
The Los Angeles Galaxy have warned something will have to give as David Beckham embarks on a gruelling schedule for club and country. The Galaxy also suggested he could miss some England friendlies. Beckham, 32, faces at least 22 games, almost 80,000 air miles - across 128 time zones - and nearly a week in the air over the next three months.
"I'm not going to deny there comes a point when your body can't do it anymore," said Galaxy boss Alexi Lalas. "If at any point we felt it was detrimental to his health or ability to help our team we would take action."
Beckham, who has been struggling with an ankle injury, flew back to LA and played all 90 minutes in the Galaxy's 3-0 defeat against local rivals Chivas on Thursday - just 30 hours after appearing for England.
"I wasn't going to play him at all," Galaxy coach Frank Yallop said. "But he wanted to play and realises the situation that the team is in. "We need points and he's that kind of a guy - at 2-0 down he could have a bit of magic and make a difference. At the end, he looked a bit hobbled and he should have been rested."
It capped a busy few days for the midfielder, who made his long-awaited first start for his new team in New York on Saturday before flying to London for England's friendly against Germany on Wednesday. This week has just been a taste of what is to come as Beckham throws himself into his American adventure whilst trying to help England qualify for next year's European Championships.
Of particular concern are two blocks of four games in nine days and a run of seven games away from his new home in LA in 21 days. His diary is especially crowded around what promises to be a crunch game for England in Moscow on 17 October.
"Beckham's air miles"
The Los Angeles Galaxy have warned something will have to give as David Beckham embarks on a gruelling schedule for club and country. The Galaxy also suggested he could miss some England friendlies. Beckham, 32, faces at least 22 games, almost 80,000 air miles - across 128 time zones - and nearly a week in the air over the next three months.
"I'm not going to deny there comes a point when your body can't do it anymore," said Galaxy boss Alexi Lalas. "If at any point we felt it was detrimental to his health or ability to help our team we would take action."
Beckham, who has been struggling with an ankle injury, flew back to LA and played all 90 minutes in the Galaxy's 3-0 defeat against local rivals Chivas on Thursday - just 30 hours after appearing for England.
"I wasn't going to play him at all," Galaxy coach Frank Yallop said. "But he wanted to play and realises the situation that the team is in. "We need points and he's that kind of a guy - at 2-0 down he could have a bit of magic and make a difference. At the end, he looked a bit hobbled and he should have been rested."
It capped a busy few days for the midfielder, who made his long-awaited first start for his new team in New York on Saturday before flying to London for England's friendly against Germany on Wednesday. This week has just been a taste of what is to come as Beckham throws himself into his American adventure whilst trying to help England qualify for next year's European Championships.
Of particular concern are two blocks of four games in nine days and a run of seven games away from his new home in LA in 21 days. His diary is especially crowded around what promises to be a crunch game for England in Moscow on 17 October.
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