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The word translation can be used to refer to an activity professional through which a text or document written from one language to another (in many cases the translation can also be given in the language oral). It can also be used to designate that already translated document that acts as an object of interest. The translation activity is a very old activity that exists since the human being communicates in different languages ​​that make up a community. The translation of both oral and written documents has allowed human beings to develop relationships of different type between simultaneous cultures as well as knowing those that no longer exist and that have only left documents writings.

Translation is an activity that obviously requires that the person who performs it has knowledge of the two or more languages ​​to be translated in such a way that the meanings of both of them. To be able to carry out this activity in a professional manner, it is necessary to carry out the specific translation careers for each

education system, but learn a language other than the mother tongue allows a person to understand and analyze different texts that have been written in that non-native language. In the translation process it is of great importance to know and take into account the structure of the language to translate in order not to make the mistake of trying to use the second language as a translation guide.

Although translation is used today more than anything from the field labor and the legal, at different times it has served so that specialists in the activity could know the true meaning of very important historical texts and documents that had been written in ancient languages ​​and that allowed, from their translation, to know representative elements of cultures such as the Egyptian, the Greek, the different civilizations of Mesopotamia, China and Japan, for mention a few.

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