In the sidebar of this blog there is the facility to translate my English into one of several languages.
I know from my own experience that language translators are not always 100 accurate and that the translation they produce can be at best grammatically incorrect. It doesn’t help when certain words in the language have different meanings according to the context.
The question is, “how well does the Google translator work?” Only my Spanish readers can answer this.
For example, does this translation of my post about the models made from salt make sense? (translation into Spanish is in italics).
In the salt museum you find all manner of things made from salt. En el museo de la sal a encontrar todo tipo de cosas hechas de sal.
However the most popular subjects for this model making craft are sailing boats. Sin embargo los temas más populares para este modelo son las embarcaciones que navegan los barcos.
The ones in this picture from Informacion are entrants in the 39th Annual Competition held in Torrevieja. Los que en esta foto de Informacion son participantes en la 39 ª Competencia anual celebrado en Torrevieja.
In all 180 people of different ages and nationalities entered their precious and very delicate models this year. En todas las 180 personas de diferentes edades y nacionalidades han entrado en sus preciosos y muy delicados modelos de este año.
Although many are from Torrevieja, entries come from all over Spain. Aunque muchas son de Torrevieja, las entradas proceden de toda España.
How are they made? ¿Cómo se hace?
Apparently you create a skeleton out of wood and string and then leave in it a salt lake to become encrusted. Al parecer, se crea un esqueleto de madera y cuerda y, a continuación, dejar en un lago de sal para ser incrustadas.
It sounds simple enough but I bet there are a lot of failures along the way. Suena bastante simple pero apuesto que hay muchos de los fracasos en el camino.
Perhaps one of my Spanish readers will kindly let me know by email at keith@bigastro.es.
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