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There is a wealth of research that points to the value of immigrant parents maintaining their first language at home with their children, although some educators feel it makes their jobs harder. McCormack says she hears this often back in the U.S. “People will complain that they have students in their class that only speak Spanish at home,” she says, “and I’ll say, ‘Good, that’s what they should be doing; they should be speaking the language of their culture and not feeling bad about doing it.’”

But how can we know if a translation is good? According to the ILR Skill Level Description for Translation Performance, “a successful translation is one that conveys the explicit and implicit meaning of the source language into the target language as fully and accurately as possible.”
What are the main problems we have to deal with? Language is inevitably linked to culture. To help us understand this, the ILR addresses culture as well. “Competence in intercultural communication is the ability to take part effectively in a given social context,” they say, “by understanding what is being communicated and by employing appropriate language and behavior to convey an intended message.”