Introduction

Welcome to our blog!

We are a group of students from the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD in Colombia. This blog shows the compilation of three short essays that were written by three members of a collaborative work group from a course on Translation Techniques. We hope you find some useful information and references here that help you to understand better what is going on with translation and the learning of different languages mainly English in our case. You can find also a conclusion post that contains a collective essay wrote for the three members of the collaborative work group.

We hope you will enjoy your journey here.

Sincerely,

Group 2
Translation Techniques

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