How do you understand the meaning of this conversation? Translate each line and write down your translations.
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Context translation is a translation that reveals the most plausible meaning for a particular context. Deciphering the meaning of one or another statement or remark is both the actual semantic translation and the probable personal characteristic of the author of the statement or remark.
It is very useful to check yourself how deeply and with what features you translate what people around you (and not only you) say. Watch a fragment from the film «Chocolate»: How do you understand the meaning of this conversation? Translate each line and write down your translations. Watch the following video fragment from the lesson of the group “Private life: the joy of close relationships” in Sinton and compare your translations with those given by other participants in the training. A possible translation offered by Prof. N.I. Kozlov, you can see and hear here →
Being able to translate what people say is useful in many different areas. Everyday experience suggests the following translations of typical female phrases characteristic of a dating situation:
“I am a sentimental girl” — she has an unbalanced character, most likely she grew up in an incomplete family. «I’m a romantic girl» — almost certainly she is bored with her peers. «I’m bored with peers» — dreams of a mature personality (that is, a man 10 — 15 years older). “I don’t know what I’m looking for” is the same. “I dream of a mature personality” — that is, either wants to be well understood, or — to be well provided. And, if possible, both. «I want to be understood» — that is, I want to be obeyed. “I want to be obeyed in everything” — most likely she is not only despotic, but also notorious. Hypercompensation, sort of. In addition, he will almost certainly want to take over the entire family budget. “I don’t like it when they analyze me, or they want to remake me” — that is, she not only has internal problems, but also a lack of compliance. “I want to be remade” — that is, I want to be simply loved. “I dream of true love” — really wants to get married. “I want to get married for a long time” — all my friends have already started families. So my mother says that it is high time … But she herself does not really want to. Otherwise, it would have left long ago. For a woman, this is much easier than other, not very far-sighted people believe. “I don’t want to get married” — that is, he wants so much that he is even afraid of it. Further see →
It is no less interesting to take a closer look at the translations (decoding) of phrases from women’s ads:
“A highly educated, intelligent girl, 26/176/54” — “A graduate of the Pedagogical Institute, who has read Pelevin’s novel Chapaev and Void to half. “Homemade, modest, faithful” — “He sits at home all weekends and holidays, because there is nowhere and no one to go with.” “A beautiful, charming natural blonde” — “High-quality hair dye and branded cosmetics take half the salary every month.” Further see →
As for men, it is important for them that women understand them more adequately, and they independently developed a cheat sheet for a better understanding of men by women: «The Man’s Manifesto».