Introduction to Spanish Translation

Child's text is well conceived and clearly written. It is designed for third or fourth year college students. He comes to the subject as both experienced teacher and practicing translator. Each of the twenty-four lessons is brief and divided into six sections: history of translation, introduction to translation theory, practical problems and translation techniques, cognates, and, finally, proverbs and idioms. What this book does not have are exercises for practice. The book reads well and Childs is generally quite insightful, but other more recent introductions to Spanish/English offer more opportunities for practice.

I thought this book was extremely helpsul. It had a lot of common mistakes and cognates that would aid any student of spanish. We used it as our textbook at Lander University. It includes funny insight and thoughtful critique.