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Brazilian Days #02 2012

In here the articles will be published as soon as they've been written. Wednesday, September 19, 2012   Re-Translating James Joyce's The Dubliners By Marc Vincent Klitgaard : The lecture was held on Thursday 19/09 – 2012. It was about re-translating a translated text, and for those who haven't Translation as a course on their current semester, or just those who have an interest in translation and re-translation, it was a golden opportunity to learn more about translation and what lies behind the translated text. We started off by hearing the most fundamental about translation, the three stages in witch we start with the word-for-word translation and end up at the third stage with the flawless text. We also learned, that the technology nowadays makes it easier to translate old text, such as Shakespeare. After a short break Vitor Amaral continued with the lecture, but this part of the lecture was  characterized by the work he was doing with tran

Trading with Latin America

Trading with Latin America On Tuesday the 2 nd of October we attended a series of presentations regarding five Latin American countries, including (of course) Brazil. These five presentations were all held by the leaders of each trade department and their specific embassy of the five countries. They informed the Danish companies which attended the seminar about the golden opportunities to export their products to Latin America – but also some of the challenges included. From Asia to Brazil Nicolai Prytz from “Consulado Geral da Dinamarca”, told us that Danish exporters have mainly had their focus on the Asian market, but because of the recent economical growth in Brazil, eyes are now turned west. This has resulted in a five-double-raise export to Brazil from 2003 to 2011. The major export areas are food, electronics, industrial machinery, pharmaceutical products and renewable energy. The last mentioned area will be a great future challenge for   Brazil be

Pictures from Brazilian Days #2 2012

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