Translation or not?

Hi!
Today I will answer this questions, I hope it is easy to get what I mean..
Are translation a good way to learn English?

- Sometimes translation is useful. Teachers give translation tasks to students so they can know what the text is about, and they try to make it easier to know the language better. Then you can talk and write more english and also understand more than just read.. When teachers give translation homework it is also good because at school you don't have any helpers and have to use what you've learned and what you can. No one knows all of the words correctly, sometimes teachers forget some words too. So it is just to translate and then you can know what you are reading. So I want you to translate and know what you're reading. That works for me, and in this way translation is good way to learn english :-)

Web side translation?
-If you don't know something in norwegian you think it is just to translate and then everything is OK. But it is not OK because you really don't know what the word means, when you translate you knows what it means, but the next time in another context you don't know which word to use. One single word can be used in many cases and can have a lot of meanings. Students at school are so lazy that they translate whole sentences. I don't think it's useful to translate sentences because you don't learn much of it. It is just done there and then. I translate words I don't know what means, but I first try to understand the context so probably I may refresh my brain and come up with a word, but if it doesn't work, I use translate or search the norwegian word in a bokmål ordbok and if it is a easier word for that word I use the easier word.- So what I mean is that translation is not a good way to learn english and english grammar because in a context you already knows what it means and what the text is about in norwegian, so you think you know what it is about in english to. But do you?



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