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Dear reader,

We have decided to choose the topic of Translation because most of us want to follow the translation career,or somehow work with it, and it is very important for us to know when we are suppose or not to translate a word into the target language. It involves changing the cultural reference when a situation in the source culture does not exist in the target culture

The purpose of the essay is to contrast two kinds of translation work: Foreignization and Domestication. This essay intends to give a overall look at these aspects of translation. In order to do so, we are going to research different material incluing books, internet websites, and experts in the area.

We have read about some translators' opinions about this subject, and found different opinions about transalation preferences, such as Esmail Zare-Behtash and Sepideh Firoozkoohi judge that domestication has been the most diffusive cultural translation strategy and Nico Wiersema who defends foreignization as a better method.

We started by discussing the subject in class and then we began looking for sources. We knew we would have to search in the internet, look for good bibliography in the library and ask the opinion of experts.

The comments from our peers helped us to correct spelling and also to think about different aspects of this subject. The class activities were also a big help since the other groups presentations helped us when we decided the topic we´re interested in writing about. We knew where to start from, how to get to our sources and how we could use different tools to present our work.

Truly yours,

Mars.