The Importance Of Translation In Culture

Translation is an important term in our life, we use it daily in life. We translate our feelings into actions, and our ideas, thoughts, and knowledge into word. But the formal term of translation deals with languages, it is basically changing words from one language into another. Translation in history has been through three main periods. The first one was the beginning of the christian era where many languages interacted to create the new christian civilisation. The second was begins with the birth of Islam in the seventeenth century and culminates in the twelve and thirteen century. The third one is translation today. Translation provides for us many benefits, it allowed us to share our knowledge, culture, science, experiences, and many other aspects with all the world. Therefore the role of the translator in the society is very beneficial as well. This study will discuss the cultural differences that the translator may face in translating from Arabic to English. The most common of it are the translating of the religious differences, and the proverbs and idioms. Moreover, it will discuss the role of the translator to avoid these differences. …show more content…
The Cultural of a certain society can be defined as its beliefs, values, history, norms, and characteristics. Language is the reflection for the cultural of society, therefore language is an integral part of culture. Some philosopher said that language and cultural in unison are like a living organism, in which language is the flesh and cultural is the blood. according to Nida (1998) “each form of language carries meaning in culture, therefore people from different culture can use the same form but with different meaning”(29). In short if there is no language, there will be no