My Class Project
I completed the website today (July 8) and submitted the url on Blackboard. The url is evolutionhomeappliances.weebly.com.
Tools I've Found Useful
I am doing the Historical Translation assignment this week. Since I have some background in French and Italian, I sometimes use online dictionaries to translate from those languages into English. My preference for online dictionaries is Reverso, by Collins. It provides dictionaries for 13 languages, such as:
http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/
http://dictionary.reverso.net/italian-english/
I think it is far superior to Google. It is like the big hard back dictionaries I used to use way back when as a French major, with more information about multiple uses for the same word and idiomatic expressions. It provides example sentences using the word you want to translate. You learn a little about the culture by using it and seeing words in context. It's not quite as good as the big hard back dictionaries, but it is close.
I use reverso quite often to help with idiomatic phrases.
ReplyDeleteYour website is excellent! It was fun to read the information and see the pictures!
ReplyDeleteI actually recognize some of the appliances. My grandmother had a gas stove from the late 20s and a washer with wringer well into the 1960s. She finally had to replace the stove because it quit working, but she never replaced her washer.
In addition, I experienced a microwave back in the late 1960s. One set of my parents' friends were early adapters of all sorts of things. The friends eliminated their stove and used the microwave for everything. It was amazing to see the microwave in use since cooking on an everyday stove seemed to take ages in comparison! I also saw my first color television at their house, too. I marveled at the NBC peacock at the beginning of every show that was featured in color! I always liked going over to their house because they had the latest, especially the color television! If they were still alive today, they would have been some of the first people to have a computer and Internet!