Difficulties in Translating Texts from English to Tamil

Abstract

Translation is the transfer of the meaning from one language to another. The translator may face many problems and difficulties in the process of translation. The main problems are syntactic, linguistics, cultural matters, and specific text. Discussing the difficulties of translation from English to Tamil and Tamil to English are important fields of translation because of the intensive need to this type of research. This study aims at detecting the problems of translating wordy sentences from English to Tamil. This work focuses its light on the syntactic problems. This study is based on the hypothesis that almost all the sentences contain redundancies or other unnecessary repetitions. Translators know the syntactic process of translation and use them correctly in their translations. The objective of this research is to identify type of syntactic errors in translation, student‟ difficulties in translating text, and factors influence students‟ error in translating English to Tamil. The research used descriptive and quantitative method. The results of this research showed the difficulties in translating from English to Tamil were elliptical errors, idioms, textual meaning, grammatical issues (tenses, word order, clauses,), structural ambiguity, and lack of strategy in syntactical errors.