9. WHERE CAN I FIND ENGLISH MOVIES?

At your newsagents’
The English Movie Collection Films including original script
Speak Up As well as the videotapes, you can also buy the magazine

 On TV
Those of you who own a time machine, can travel back in time three or four years and re-live the wonders of the programme which used to air on Sunday nights on RaiTre "Movies: i film come non li avete mai sentiti". Failing which, you could complain to the programme schedulers of the major television networks who seem to think that a repeat of a television series from the seventies is of greater value than showing a film in its original language. But we digress.
The only solution for those wishing to view films in English is to purchase a satellite kit. Sad but true.

At the cinema
Some cinemas make it a practice to show films in their original language on a regular basis. Your local newspaper would be the best source for finding out if you are fortunate enough to live in an area with a cinema under such enlightened management.

At your local library
Some libraries are furnished with multi-media sectors complete with music CD’s, videotapes and DVD. Among these, some even have films in their original language. Unfortunately not many are as enlightened, however it is certainly worth asking to find out.
 
 

10. LITERATURE ONLINE

We are very often asked for help in suggesting ‘interesting’ literature or for sources where certain works can be found online. The following therefore, is longer than might perhaps be thought necessary, but it is deliberately so, in the hopes that you might find what you need ‘somewhere out there’

Akamac
Among other things, Marx's Das Kapital is available in English and English-German bilingual versions, in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file-format. This site also includes an extensive, alphabetically-sorted directory of online e-text resources of all sorts.
  http://www.cpm.ll.ehime-u.ac.jp/AkamacHomePage/Akamac.html

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
"The scope of documents in this collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy." This extensive literature archive site is distinguished by the ability to generate on-the-fly Portable Document Format or .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files which can be (to a limited extent) custom-formatted online and then downloaded for later reading and printing.
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
"Builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers world-wide."
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu

Bibliotheca Universalis
A G-7 global information society pilot project whose main objective is to make the major works of the world's scientific and cultural heritage accessible to the public.
  http://www.konbib.nl/gabriel/bibliotheca-universalis/index.htm

Blackmask Online Ebooks
A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors (including a biography on each author listed) from a wide range of literature; many works can also be downloaded in .zip file-format.
  http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/main.htm

Books-Online
A searchable and browseable database-directory of online electronic texts covering a broad range of interests, from established literary classics to computer how-to manuals. Be warned however that of their current database of 11,301 books, 575 only have ‘Sample Chapters’, i.e. not the entire book.
  http://www.books-on-line.com

Bookvalley
A library of classic novels, literatures, and fictions online. Including the Tarzan Series and the immortal Sherlock Holmes.
  http://www.bookvalley.com

The British Library
Digital Library
  http://portico.bl.uk/diglib/diglib_main.html

CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library
An extensive link resource, listing texts archived at various locations all across the Internet. Features a searchable database.
  http://www.bookwebsites.com

Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Bibliography
An extensive archive of Middle-English electronic texts (none of which are translated into modern English, however), including works by Chaucer and the ubiquitous Anonymous.
  http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/mideng/bibl.html

Cyberbooks.
A growing selection of downloadable, online books in both English and Italian.
http://members.xoom.it/cyberbooks/

Grand Library
Portal for digital books available online, with thousands of books to read for free.
  http://grandlibrary.com

Internet Classics Archive
Repository of searchable works of classical literature. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
  http://classics.mit.edu

The Internet Public Library
Online public library for the Internet community. Includes directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials; plus special sections for youth and teens.
  http://www.ipl.org/reading/books

Online Books
Directory of over 11,000 books that can be freely read on the Internet.
  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Perseus Project
An evolving digital library of ancient Greek and Latin texts, ancient art and architecture, secondary sources, and links maintained by Tufts University.
  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

Progetto Liber-Liber
Il progetto Liber Liber ha per scopo la realizzazione della versione elettronica, e certificata, di centinaia di classici della letteratura in lingua italiana, gratuitamente prelevabili via Internet.
  http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/opere
Also available from the University of Milan via ftp:
  ftp://manuzio.dsi.unimi.it/pub/Manuzio/

Project Gutenberg Index
"Project Gutenberg selects etexts targeted a bit on the "bang for the buck" philosophy… we choose etexts we hope extremely large portions of the audience will want and use frequently."
  http://www.promo.net/pg/

Shakespeare Stack Project
Macintosh hyperCard editions of the works of William Shakespeare, with annotations.
  http://www.his.com/~z/shakespeare/

Twain Enterprises at Villa Gruntose
"Contains a collection of electronic texts including the entire Sherlock Holmes canon…" which is really why the link is here…
  http://www.gruntose.com/Info/Books/Sherlock_Holmes/sherlock.html

Under the Sun
Contains classic literature in HTML format. Authors include Twain, Shelley and Dickens. New authors are added monthly.
  http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics

Vision of the Artists
1258 classical fiction and non-fiction e-books. 460 authors linked to 1258 author titles of classic literature.
  http://www.selfknowledge.com

Washington University Library – Electronic Texts & Documents
Amazing depth of historical subjects available. An impressively large list of what’s available on the Internet.
  http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/Humanities/dr/eltxt.html
 

 

11 LEISURE ONLINE

Want to find your favourite song's lyrics? Ever wondered what Dr. Frankesteeen said to Igor in "Young Frankenstein"? Here are a few links to help you out…

Song Lyrics
Some places where you could find that the love song you like the most is the last incoherent cry of a freaking psycho:
http://www.songfile.com/
http://www.lyrics.ch/index.htm
http://songfile.snap.com/

Movie Scripts
Three places where you will find the scripts of your favourite movies, or even the original screenplays (check out Bladerunner, Young Frankenstein, and Pulp Fiction)
http://www.script-o-rama.com/trans.shtml
http://www.lontano.org/FMA/index-frames.html
http://us.imdb.com/
 
Movie Trailers and Interviews
Trailers, in English, of the latest releases to be shown at the cinema can be found at the first of the following sites (updated every Friday), and the second link offers many interviews with stars of the silver screen:   http://movies.eonline.com/?plusmovie
http://www.hollywood.com/movietalk/
 
Comics on line
The Realm has more than a few die-hard comic enthusiasts, so…Wanna read a few stories featuring Donald Duck in its mother tongue? Go on and help yourself:  http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/blumarine/14/bongo01.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/5038/kites01.htm
http://www.mhk.lu.se/home/murry/Moc20/africaframe.html
http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it/comics/Censored/AtomBomb/Pagina1.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/blumarine/14/loot01.htm
http://www.hamlco.com/gladstone/boatmen/boatmen1.html
http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it/comics/censored/MarcoPolo/
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/blumarine/14/loot01.htm
 
Radio over the Internet
The choice of English radio stations available over the Internet is quite staggering. In order to hear them however, you will first need to install a plug-in (if you don’t already have one, of course). Arguably the most popular and available free of charge is Real Player:
www.realplayer.com

Once you have installed the correct plug-in you can go and look for the radio broadcasting station in the city you most like
http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/list.html
 

TV over the net
This section needs you! Share your knowledge with The Realmers. Come visit us on the NewsGroup and tell us how to get the most out of our old PCs. For the time being content yourselves with
 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex
 
 

12. TRANSLATION: Information and Resources for Translators

Where can I find out about Translation, Fees, etc?

 ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA TRADUTTORI INTERPRETI
provides a comprehensive fee list for professional interpreters/translators in various fields.
  http://www.mix.it/AITI/

Generally speaking however, agencies pay about L.22.000 a page where each page is approximately 25 lines of 60 characters each . For private clients it is possible to ask for L30,000 per page and up.

Where can I find translation software?
There is really no available software – free or otherwise – which can do a creditable job of translating text from English into Italian or indeed from any language into another. While experienced translators are finding uses for those programmes that are available, the inexperienced translator should use them with care.

Altavista
provides an online translation service. Be warned the results are far from satisfactory.
BabelFish
is another online translation service

If you have something which needs translating, within a reasonable limit, ask the newsgroup, you’ll be sure to get all the help you need and it is guaranteed to be more accurate than anything a software translation programme will produce. Having said this, some links for translation software can be found at:   http://italian.about.com/education/italian/msubtranslation.htm

If you are looking for what is known as translation memory (TM) programmes which store your own translations of frequently used words and phrases such as are used by professional translators, two of the most popular are:

Trados:
  http://www.trados.com

DejaVu:
  www.atril.com

Other Links:
The following Web site provides over 350 links to free, online machine translation (MT) engines, translation dictionaries, translation word lists, and foreign language processing resources:
  http://11design.com/transguide/
 
What is Babelfish?
Altavista’s online translation service which leaves much to be desired (See Above)

Useful sites for Translators:

The newsgroup
  sci.language.translation

is " a major meeting place for translators and interpreters and for all those who are curious about anything to do with these professions. The group provides a forum where for those interested in the problems, issues, and concerns of translators and interpreters."
It is not the site where you should be posting or asking for work. A specific work-related site for translators exists for this:
  sci.language.translation.marketplace

The Translator’s Home Companion, as it calls itself, offers many useful links and their address is:
  http://www.lai.com./lai/companion.html

Aquarius.net is a large marketplace for translation and interpreting jobs on the Internet. It features many resources for translators in the form of links, reference materials, libraries and more.
  http://aquarius.net

EuroDicAutom – A terminology data base in nine languages including 5 million terms in many official EC languages:
  http://eurodic.ip.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/EuroDicWWW.pl

Dictionaries and Glossaries - A very impressive site offering 870 monolingual, bilingual and multilingual resources in the form of either downloadable or online dictionaries including detective slang, casing and packing industry terms, flower names, a cat fanciers glossary, silicon valley slang, model aeroplane dictionary and a lot more besides. Definitely worth a visit.
  http://www.jump.net/~fdietz/glossary.htm

A Useful page for translators with links to newsgroups, mailing lists, numerous specialist dictionaries and much more
  http://ireland.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/lang/index.html