... According to Pham Thanh Binh (2010), when applying to English – Vietnamese circumstance, there are 8 in 9 strategies is suitable. The first method is translation by a more specific word in which a more specific word is used to translate an English word into Vietnamese. For example, the English word for & ... , sling back, wedge heels, kitten heels but Vietnamese refers to all kinds of heels as "giày cao gót". Another method is translation by using a loan word plus explanation. This method can be useful when dealing with concepts or ideas that are new to Vietnam like culture- ... the t...

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... developed cross-culturally. He noted that ethnocentrism is not only common in research design and instrumentation, but also in data collection and data analysis. He also pointed out that translation and back translation are not always foolproof and depend on the skills of the translator. He also suggested that using a panel of bilingual readers familiar with the content matter is less costly ... and may be just as good or even better than a pure back translation. Finally he suggested that quantitative analysis such as factor analysis is useful, but care must be taken to ensure that any ...

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... . Those deliver news about their home country as well as news about their new community, Little Saigon. Little Saigon assists the newly arrived immigrants with a line of offices that provide translation services, school and job application assistance, English language classes, and employment that requires little or no skills. For other longtime immigrants, Little Saigon helps them communicate with their More importantly ... tune" (Nguyen 198). The insertion of bilingual pop songs draws young Vietnamese American into watching the videos and learning more about Vietnamese culture with the ...

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... of this, one of the more prominent differences in every culture, our society would grow together and have the ability to work more efficiently. There would be no need for translation of literature between languages therefore more accurate communication. Traveling the world would be safer and easier to engage socially. Businesses, even small ones, would have the means to collaborate with ... ...

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... US to start college, obtain a better job and a home for my son and me. After the observations of my project, I remembered the readings of Renato Rosaldo in "Culture & Truth "; The translation of cultures requires one to try to understand the other culture's form of life. We should never try to assume anything of someone else's culture or judge them because it ... ...

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... made great advancements in the blending of cultures, math and science, and arts and literature. All this made possible the a semblance of the House of Wisdom, a combination library academy, and translation center. Muslim culture was centered around its four social classes. It included the born Muslims at the top. Converts were in the next class and had to pay higher taxes ... ...

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... made great advancements in the blending of cultures, math and science, and arts and literature. All this made possible the a semblance of the House of Wisdom, a combination library academy, and translation center. Muslim culture was centered around its four social classes. It included the born Muslims at the top. Converts were in the next class and had to pay higher taxes ... ...

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... made great advancements in the blending of cultures, math and science, and arts and literature. All this made possible the a semblance of the House of Wisdom, a combination library academy, and translation center. Muslim culture was centered around its four social classes. It included the born Muslims at the top. Converts were in the next class and had to pay higher taxes ... ...

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... that could be said to be qualitatively valid [34]. Prior to being administered in Japan and Switzerland, the survey instrument was translated into Japanese and German. In each case the translation was reviewed by a third party to insure that the meaning of the questions was preserved. To test construct validity, a principal components factor analysis of the usefulness and ease of use ... ...

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... ones - Mexico, Spain, Iraq, Germany, you name it. Q: How does the diversity help and hurt the teaching and learning? A: One thing that is difficult is language; things get lost in translation. Also awareness of culture must be present. Some can't dress out because it is against their religion." Q: What is the benefit of different cultures? A: Totally different perspectives on things. For ... ...

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... in the story. The advantages of this procedure are that translators are accurate and well-rehearsed, there is no reading, the subject does not need to speak, and the perfect translation of the emotion words is not necessary because the story already implies the emotion within itself. The translators were told not to prompt, and repeated practice was used to insure ... ...

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... forgotten and Bulgarian alternatives started being used instead. This way I was introdused to one other language even when I couldn't really talk. It even happened many times that I didn't know the translation for some of the words in Bulgarian,only because I have heard them only from my great parents. It is not that I encountered a new culture because it was all more Bulgarian ... ...

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... advertised labeling expectations. Organizational effectiveness and defining organizational culture involves four functions: 1) the values and beliefs of the members of the organization, 2) the policies and practices the organization uses, 3) the translation of the first two functions into the "vision" of the organizations leader, and 4) the relationship of the first two functions to the environment context. (Frost) An even more basic definition ... ...

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... the hands of the Holy Office but this time he was condemned to death. Trial documents from the Inquisition are a good primary source of information, however, one realizes that through translation from Latin and Greek loss of context is inevitable. It is difficult to write a history with out other written documents as additional sources. The reader speculates that Ginzburg wrote the ... ...

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