This report
describes my internship activities at PT Anak Hebat Indonesia (AHI) from
January 29th until March 23rd, 2024. The purposes of
conducting the internship are 1) applying translation skills through
translating and editing books, mainly translating a novel, 2) implementing and
enhancing translation competencies, and 3) comprehending the stages involved in
the publishing industry's process of translating and editing novels. The report
focuses on the main activity of the internship, which is translating Jane
Austen's Pride and Prejudice, from
English into Indonesian. This novel is written by Jane Austen. It was published
in 1813 and is one of English literature's most famous and appreciated works.
It chronicles the lives of Elizabeth Bennet, one of the five Bennet daughters,
and a nobleman named Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy. I emphasised conveying the
appropriate meaning from the source language to the target language as
naturally as possible by implementing Nida and Taber’s translation process. In Theory and Practice of Translation, Nida
and Taber (1982) explain that the translation process consists of three main
stages. The most challenging part of translating the book was translating the
idioms. To solve the issues, I looked up the meaning of the idioms in
dictionaries, namely the Cambridge Dictionary, Oxford Learner's Dictionary,
Collins Dictionary, and Merriam-Webster Dictionary. I also looked up on Google
for more references related to the idioms. I also give some recommendations for
the English Diploma students who have certainly been equipped with knowledge of
translation on campus with the lecturers and mentoring sessions with the
professionals in the translation agencies, for the English Diploma Program who
has educated its students and provided a broad knowledge of translation through
theoretical classes on campus and provided us with two semesters of internship
experience in the industry, and for PT Anak Hebat Indonesia (AHI) who has given
me a lot of experience.
Keywords: idiom,
translation, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
