User:Araney1/Languages of Chile/Treedovey Peer Review

General info

 * Whose work are you reviewing?

Angie


 * Link to draft you're reviewing
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Araney1/Languages_of_Chile?veaction=edit&preload=Template%3ADashboard.wikiedu.org_draft_template
 * Link to the current version of the article (if it exists)
 * Languages of Chile

Evaluate the drafted changes
a. You covered a lot of ground with your first draft! I feel like overall your translation was really well written and made a lot of sense, especially in the areas that cover the details of each specific language. I feel like these sections really conveyed the same meaning as the Spanish version of the article in a very cohesive way. I also really appreciate how closely you stuck to the original formatting. Everything was in the right place which made it so much easier to read and understand with the bolded letting and the indentations/bullet points. Great job!

b.

1) You don't have to be as literal as the original text. For example, the inclusion of 'de facto' in the opening paragraph might need to be shifted around a little in order to work there. There's another example in the entry for Yagán in the 'indigenous languages in route of extinction' tab. "Christina Calderón is the last speaker of old age" is a little confusing in its phrasing.

2) You have a couple spelling errors within your text which are all underlined. 'demoninational' - denominational, 'maintainment' - maintenance, "lingustic" -linguistic, etc.

3) Some of the indigenous languages and other words have english spellings (Mapudungun - mapache, aimara - ayamara). I'm not 100% sure if Profesor Hoot wants us to change these to their English spellings for our articles but I'm planning to ask in class because I know that I encountered this issue as well!

4) Language differences - I think we talked about it when we had that guest speaker in class but there's a couple concepts in here that I don't think have a literal exact translation in English. The word "clasificación filogenética" might be translated as filogenetic classification but when I look up filogenic nothing pops up. Maybe post on the Word Reference discussion boards to help find what the concept is in english because I was having a hard time finding it myself.

5) Considering the existing English article - some of what you have translated can be found on the existing English version of your article. There may be a way to incorporate some of the already existing ideas into your own descriptions to combine them.

~ ~ ~ ~ Tess