The Spanish or Portuguese Graduate Student Translation Exam

Spring 2025

Register here (form closes April 9 at 12:00 noon) 

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Date:  Thursday, April 10 or Friday, April 11 (student’s choice, see registration form)

Time:  Two-hour window of your choosing (see registration form for details)

Place:  Virtual

For graduate students in other departments who must fulfill a foreign language requirement.

You will choose a two-hour time window in which to complete your translations. 

The passages to translate will be sent to you 5 minutes before your chosen time.

You may use a physical Spanish-English or Portuguese-English dictionary. 

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A physical print Spanish-English or Portuguese-English dictionary may be used for the exam.

The exam consists of two passages in Spanish or Portuguese to be translated into English. One passage consists of expository prose; the other is a narrative prose text.

For questions, please email Julia DiVincenzo, julia.divincenzo@yale.edu

Sample Passages for the Spanish Translation Exam:

• Sample Expository Prose Passages

  • Sample A

  • Sample B

• Sample Narrative Prose Passages

  • Sample A

  • Sample B

  • Sample C