{"id":176,"date":"2004-03-16T14:02:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T14:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2004-03-16T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T14:02:31","slug":"lost_in_translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I applied to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www-bus.tp.edu.sg\/course\/B66.htm\">Certificate<\/a> in English\/Chinese Translation and Interpretation at Temasek Polytechnic. The course sounds extremely demanding and I&#8217;m really just trying my luck. I probably wouldn&#8217;t pass the qualifying test and the two interviews. Ok, I would pass the one conducted in English but probably not the one in Chinese. My tongue will probably get lost halfway through the interview.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve always enjoyed the study of languages and I would like to be able to do more with my knowledge of Chinese. I appreciate the beauty of the Chinese language and I want to learn more about it, and be more proficient in it. I also think translation&#8217;s interesting. It&#8217;s a real challenge to be able to accurately translate one language to another without losing the text&#8217;s original meaning and the nuances of the source language.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m rather insane to be applying for the course considering my proficiency (or rather lack of it) in Chinese but I would like to go for the qualifying test to see where I stand. After all, I&#8217;ve already met the minimum requirements with my results in the &#8216;O&#8217; and &#8216;A&#8217; level exams, so I thought might as well give it a try. No harm doing so.<br \/>\nAnyway, will see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I applied to do a Certificate in English\/Chinese Translation and Interpretation at Temasek Polytechnic. The course sounds extremely demanding and I&#8217;m really just trying my luck. I probably wouldn&#8217;t pass the qualifying test and the two interviews. Ok, I would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=176\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}