{"id":62460,"date":"2021-12-08T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=62460"},"modified":"2021-12-08T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:01:26","slug":"students-enhance-wetlands-education-center-media-with-spanish-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=62460","title":{"rendered":"Students enhance Wetlands Education Center media with Spanish translations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish speakers comprise the second largest population of native speakers in the world. It is also the second most spoken language in the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the direction of Dr. Giovani L\u00f3pez, assistant professor of\nModern Languages at Fort Hays State University, translation and interpretation\nstudents at FHSU translate various materials into Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to those students\u2019 work, Spanish-speaking visitors to\nFHSU\u2019s Kansas Wetlands Education Center (KWEC) near Great Bend now have the\nopportunity to access information across multiple channels, including the\ninternet and in the center\u2019s exhibits. The KWEC, covering more than 65 square\nmiles in south central Kansas, is one of the most important wetlands preserves\nin the U.S. and home to more than 350 species of birds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The KWEC project is one of several that students in the\nDepartment of Modern Languages are involved in to open the door to cultural\nhappenings in Kansas to monolingual Spanish speakers. Fort Hays State senior\nRiley Sanford, a geology and Spanish major from Topeka, is working on a project\nfor FHSU\u2019s Sternberg Museum of Natural History. The museum\u2019s mission is to\nadvance an appreciation and understanding of Earth\u2019s natural history, and this\nhappens both physically in the museum and virtually through social media posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riley translates the museum\u2019s social media posts and the text\nthat accompanies exhibits in their virtual museum and creates videos for the\nmuseum\u2019s YouTube page in both English and Spanish. From posts about rhinos to\nexhibits about the evolution of wings, her work helps Spanish speakers learn\nabout ancient creatures that once walked, flew, and swam across what is now\nKansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Aly Baumgartner, Sternberg\u2019s collections manager of\npaleontology, works with Riley on the project, including a weekly translation\nof their Fossil Friday social media posts into Spanish.\n\n\u201cTranslation isn\u2019t\neasy, especially when you are grappling with both a specialized vocabulary and\na limited character count,\u201d Baumgartner said. \u201cRiley\u2019s knowledge of both\nSpanish and paleontology has meant that she is able to succinctly summarize\ncontent into Spanish, even when the character count limits make a direct\ntranslation impossible. This is the first step of many towards making our\nmuseum more accessible to a wider audience.\u201d \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Spanish speakers comprise the second largest population of native speakers in the world. 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