Answer — Exercise 5
4A - An open book·English File Advanced - Student's Book
Domanda
Listen again and answer the questions.
Risposta
- A novelist / author yourself
- You can communicate with them and ask them, e.g. what they mean by something.
- The English translation of the Spanish Coca-Cola slogan
- It's often impossible to translate it literally because the phrase only works in English.
- The translation has to fit on the screen as the actor is speaking.
- Humour is not the same in other languages, and some jokes are untranslatable.
- It's difficult to get the right register.