Reading comprehension
Aug. 27th, 2009 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularThe assignment yesterday was to put together a summary of a memo of about eight pages. Didn't need to be a full translation, just a summary of the important points.
Unfortunately, in order to summarize, I needed to do the full translation. My reading comprehension isn't up to it, otherwise. So, being told that the summary should take less time than a full translation? Doesn't quite work out like expected.
It's quite frustrating at times. My reading comprehension in English is a little odd - I don't hear the words as my eye passes over them, but rather, I sort of absorb chunks of text at a time. Sort of like pattern recognition, which works rather quickly. That doesn't work in Greek at all.
Ah, well. Translation done, summary done. On to the next task.
Unfortunately, in order to summarize, I needed to do the full translation. My reading comprehension isn't up to it, otherwise. So, being told that the summary should take less time than a full translation? Doesn't quite work out like expected.
It's quite frustrating at times. My reading comprehension in English is a little odd - I don't hear the words as my eye passes over them, but rather, I sort of absorb chunks of text at a time. Sort of like pattern recognition, which works rather quickly. That doesn't work in Greek at all.
Ah, well. Translation done, summary done. On to the next task.
