{"id":2012,"date":"2023-12-22T07:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T07:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muteba.de\/2023\/12\/22\/what-is-the-difference-between-literal-and-free-translation\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:01:41","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-literal-and-free-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/what-is-the-difference-between-literal-and-free-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between literal and free translation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>main difference between literal and free translation<\/strong> is that literal translations involve word-to-word translation, while free translations involve translation of the general meaning of a text.<\/p>\n\n<p>Translate translates the meaning and context of a text from one <a href=\"https:\/\/euresisjournal.org\/difference-between-language-and-dialect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">language<\/a> to another. Verbatim translations and free translations are types of translation. Literal translation is the translation of a text word by word from one language to another without considering the meaning of the entire text, while free translation translates a text so that it reflects the general meaning of the original text.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Literal translation and free translation, similarities and differences(4th semester unit 1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kw5QEe1UZuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main difference between literal and free translation is that literal translations involve word-to-word translation, while free translations involve translation of the general meaning of a text. Translate translates the meaning and context of a text from one language to another. Verbatim translations and free translations are types of translation. Literal translation is the translation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-lin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muteba.com\/lin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}