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An acquaintance of mine, who is a translator, once told me that when you travel you find out to what extent other people are wrong about other countries. With our travel and tourism articles for translation and interpretation workers, we will be covering more than 75 vacations around the world, each packed with life changing adventures that will motivate you while working your creativity, brain, heart, and potential. Each of this vacations will surely expand your view of the world, which, undoubtedly starts with your vision of a good vacation. Each and every of these travels will be a journey into a new world, a unique experience that will convince you that the world can offer you numerous new opportunities to enrich your soul. So let us get started with the destinations that that Portuguese and Russian Translators and Interpreters will find, in our opinion, very interesting and inspiring. But before you go, make sure to have your paperwork in order and your passport translation ready for the immigration officials.

English to Russian Translation
The St. Petersburg Academy of Arts was established nineteen years before the foundation of the United States. Count Ivan Shuvalov was the person to whom St Peterburg, Russia and the world owe the existence of this educational institution, originally named the Academy of Three Noblest Art. At the time of its opening everyone who had artistic promise, even peasants, was allowed to attend classes.. It was until 1764 that all classes were held at the palace of Count Ivan Shuvalov on Sadovaya Street. After that Catherine the Great gave a new name to the establishment – Imperial Academy of Arts – and ordered a new building to be constructed, a venture that took 25 years to execute. The building of the Imperial Academy of Arts is situated opposite the Winter Palace. Today, the neoclassic architecture style building of the academy even keeps 3,000-year-old Egyptian sphinxes and griffins.

Once, when the academy began, the best Russian painters travelled to other countries such as France and Italy to study various forms of art. Now people from all over the world come to the academy to study the Russian sensitive and poetic art forms. In addition to the three noble arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, the Academy now offers classes in glass making, stone carving, weaving, mosaics, and making matryoshkas, the famous Russian nesting dolls.

A few artists and Russian Translation Services workers, being frustrated that the visitors of St Peterburg, after visiting the Hermitage and the Russian Art Museum were left wondering where they could see some of the contemporary Russian art and culture, decided to found in 2002 the company ArtTours. You can choose to join one of the so-called “master classes” offered by the company: in painting, iconography, sculpture, stained glass, jewelry, art restoration, Russian theater and ballet, or, if you would like you can try one of the two-hour workshops, the Russian Easter eggs painting, for example.

Portuguese Translator
Although we cannot call a samba school an educational institution, it has its social function in the organization and coordination of parties and festivals. Only in Rio over 50 samba schools work all the year to prepare for the Mardi Gras or Carnival. In fact, they spend an average of $500,000 to $1,000,000 making costumes and floats and rehearsing for their part in a 65- to 80-minute performance that involves up to 5,000 people. Although some Rio’s samba schools do not let foreigners participate, claiming that they are not fluent enough in Portuguese to learn the songs and will spoil the impression and diminish the school’s chances of staying in the list of the participants in the big two-day parade, other samba schools willingly accept the money of Portuguese to English Translation Services workers in exchange of involving them somehow in the parade – either in costume assembling or in drumming or shaking their rumps in the parade. We can say that schools find such positions around the fringes of the foreign participants that they are almost invisible to the judges. If you pay enough you can choose from among various impressive costumes, decorated with everything from ostrich and peacock feathers to sequins and glittering trinkets.

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Filed under: Fun Stuff on March 22nd, 2010