"Juvenes Translatores 2008" - National winners have received their awards

Twenty-seven "young translators" (one from each EU Member State) travelled to Brussels to receive the prizes of the first ever European translation contest for schools. The prizes for the "Juvenes Translatores" contest were handed in a special ceremony by Leonard Orban, Member of the EC in charge of Mulitilingualism.

The contest was organised by the Translation Directorate-General of the European Commission and took place simultaneously in all Member States under the supervision of the schools involved. Participants were given two hours to translate one of the 23 different original texts into any other official language of the EU.

Below we offer a scan from a local Portuguese newspaper about the national winner, Luís Costa.

A tourist information project "kindly brought to you by the paying advertisers"!

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Sometimes I get requests for material about Águeda including the translation into English. Control over final product sometimes is little if any, however this example is not so bad as one might think because the company even accepted to include credits for the translation (and the original material was mine too...). In any case the final print turned out fairly OK with high-glossy paper. The only drawback was the impossibility to fit the map of the municipality which I had put into English. Soon I'll be able to bring you another set of high-quality tourist material so then you'll get a nice overview of this map and nice local oddities, such as the roasted piglet and the egg and almond sweet pastry! EhEhEhEh!!!

The company who produced the brochure is available here.

European Comission has selected the Best Young Portuguese Translator

The winner was Luís Filipe Machado Costa.

You can check his work right here.

Go here to know more about this initiative by the European Commission.

Presentation about the Municipality of Águeda, Portugal (Portuguese and English texts)

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A small translation project into English; nevertheless, the final purpose was important and the translation was obviously crucial...