Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Netflix Hermes test
Poster: Franjo Varšić
Post title: Oh!
[quote]Wojciech Matyszkiewicz wrote:
[quote]Franjo Varšić wrote:
[quote]Magdalena Bardalinska wrote:
[quote]Franjo Varšić wrote:
#1
Regarding this infamous football video, can you give examples of what the questions were like and what the football vocabulary involved in the questions was?
I find this odd, since the description of the test says that the possible answers are offered in the target language. American football is not a very popular sport in global terms, most languages probably don't have words for football vocabulary.
#2
Does phase 4 (the technical test) offer possible answers or do you have to write them in?
Are there multiple possible answers per question? [/quote]
#1 I was referring to video test in the last part, not the multiple-choice questions.
#2 It's multiple choice, no writing.
About multiple possible answers, it's always one BUT one of my questions in the technical part was obviously a bug, because there were two evident errors in a subtitle - it was too long (running through the whole scene) and it had a typo, so I had to choose one. Which is a bummer, because if I hit the wrong one, which is not in the key, this is gonna be an error. This is why I'm gonna say that this test it far from ideal. [/quote]
Thanks!
Regarding #1, what are these questions in connection to the football video like?
I understand from the description of the test that you are played this video and then you are asked questions with answers offered in the target language.
What are the questions and answers like for this football video? [/quote]
The video is a subtitling tasks. There are no questions. [/quote]
Oh, I see, well, then I go back to my original question, which is how the heck do they expect people to translate a bunch of words specific to American football when the dang thing is played in, what, one country in the world?
I mean, I guess maybe they EXPECT people to not be able to do it, but it would have made more sense to choose something where you can differentiate between people who are familiar with American culture and those that aren't, or something like that, not give a task in which ALL are doomed to fail, because you're not differentiating between anything.
[Edited at 2017-04-08 00:15 GMT]
Topic: Netflix Hermes test
Poster: Franjo Varšić
Post title: Oh!
[quote]Wojciech Matyszkiewicz wrote:
[quote]Franjo Varšić wrote:
[quote]Magdalena Bardalinska wrote:
[quote]Franjo Varšić wrote:
#1
Regarding this infamous football video, can you give examples of what the questions were like and what the football vocabulary involved in the questions was?
I find this odd, since the description of the test says that the possible answers are offered in the target language. American football is not a very popular sport in global terms, most languages probably don't have words for football vocabulary.
#2
Does phase 4 (the technical test) offer possible answers or do you have to write them in?
Are there multiple possible answers per question? [/quote]
#1 I was referring to video test in the last part, not the multiple-choice questions.
#2 It's multiple choice, no writing.
About multiple possible answers, it's always one BUT one of my questions in the technical part was obviously a bug, because there were two evident errors in a subtitle - it was too long (running through the whole scene) and it had a typo, so I had to choose one. Which is a bummer, because if I hit the wrong one, which is not in the key, this is gonna be an error. This is why I'm gonna say that this test it far from ideal. [/quote]
Thanks!
Regarding #1, what are these questions in connection to the football video like?
I understand from the description of the test that you are played this video and then you are asked questions with answers offered in the target language.
What are the questions and answers like for this football video? [/quote]
The video is a subtitling tasks. There are no questions. [/quote]
Oh, I see, well, then I go back to my original question, which is how the heck do they expect people to translate a bunch of words specific to American football when the dang thing is played in, what, one country in the world?
I mean, I guess maybe they EXPECT people to not be able to do it, but it would have made more sense to choose something where you can differentiate between people who are familiar with American culture and those that aren't, or something like that, not give a task in which ALL are doomed to fail, because you're not differentiating between anything.
[Edited at 2017-04-08 00:15 GMT]