Tatiana Oliva Morales - Valle de los Elfos. Adapted fairy tale for translation from English into Spanish and retelling. © Linguistic Reanimator

Valle de los Elfos. Adapted fairy tale for translation from English into Spanish and retelling

© Linguistic Reanimator

Tatiana Oliva Morales

Illustrator Tatiana Oliva Morales

Cover designer Tatiana Oliva Morales

© Tatiana Oliva Morales, 2020

© Tatiana Oliva Morales, illustrations, 2020

© Tatiana Oliva Morales, cover design, 2020

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Annotation

The book consists of an exercise to translate a fairy tale, adapted according to the methodology © Linguistic Reanimator, from English into Spanish; and of 2 exercises for retelling of non-adapted Spanish and English versions of the same tale. Exercise 1 and 2 have the key. The tale contains 899 English / Spanish words. By complexity, it corresponds to levels B1  B2. It is recommended for a wide range of people studying English and Spanish, as well as for native English speakers studying Spanish.

The number of words you need to know for the following purposes of using a foreign language

For survival in the environment without a translator  120

For daily communication on general topics  2000

For reading simple texts of general subjects  4,000  5,000

Reading dificult texts  10,000

Native Speaker Level  10,000  20,000

From the author

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About the © Linguistic Reanimator series

All the English and Spanish language © Linguistic Reanimator Series books can significantly reduce the training period of a foreign language course and improve the quality of learning of new words and normative grammar by a student.

Their advantage is foreign words and (sometimes) transcription in brackets next to the word in a sentence. Using this technique, a student never studied English / Spanish before, having no vocabulary, can begin translating from Russian into English / Spanish, from Spanish into English or from English into Spanish.

The technique allows you to learn new English / Spanish words and phrases easily, and quickly; improving the skills of correct translation into a foreign language.

All the © Linguistic Reanimator Series books have been written for my dificult students, for those who needed to obtain a large amount of high-quality knowledge in a short period of time. The latter is the aim of all the textbooks of this series.

Highlighting

-there should be a definite or indefinite article in this place.

!  you should consider what preposition should be in front of the next group of words.

*  irregular verb.

we (nosotros)  English word / its Spanish equivalent.

you (Usted) 2.read (leer) 1.it (lo)  the numbers in front of the words mean their order in the sentence.

your (-)  this word does not need to be translated into Spanish.

white houses (casa.. blanco..)  you should change gender and / or number of the words.

had gone (go..)  you should change the verb form.

Exercise 1

Translate the fairy tale into Spanish.

Elves Valley

Alice (Alicia) lived (vivir) in (en) a small house ( pequeña casa) on (en) the outskirts ( afueras) of (de) the village ( pueblo).

Although (aunque) her (sus) parents (padres) worked (trabajar) in (en) the field ( campo) from morning till night (desde la mañana hasta la noche), they led (llevar) modest and poor lifes (vidas modestas y pobres).

Certainly (ciertamente), how (como ser.. posible) to get rich (hacerse ricos) under such circumstances (en tales circunstancias).

Strong hurricanes (fuerte.. huracan..) often (a menudo) happened (ocurrir) there (allí), they spoiled (estropear) and (y) destroyed (destruir) crops (los cultivos).

And one day (un día), when (cuando) father and mother (los padres) had gone (ir) to (a) work (trabajar), heavy clouds (nube.. oscuro..) brooded over the house (cubrir.. la casa),

lightning flashed (centellear.. relámpagos), a strong hail started (comenzar.. un fuerte granizo), and then (luego) the wind broke out (estallar.. el viento).

It was of such a force (ser.. de tal fuerza) that (que) it began (empezar) to (a) demolish (demoler) all the (todos los) buildings (edificio..) around (a su alrededor), to smash the boats into pieces (a convertir en astillas los barcos) at (en) the nearest marina ( muelle local).

Alice was very scared (estar muy asustado..), she climbed (subirse) onto (a) her (-) bed (la cama) and pulled cover over her head (cubrirse.. de cabeza con la manta).