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When making Spanish-English translations, should I write Universidad or University?

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MrROOS
September 16, 2014, 04:48 PM
Good day,

I´m translating from Spanish to English a book on biographies of famous scientist. All of them have studied at different universities around the world. If one of the scientist studied at "Universidad de Caracas", should I write "he studied at University of Caracas" or "he studied at Universidad de Caracas" ? I appreciate your help.

Rusty
September 16, 2014, 06:10 PM
Welcome to the forums!Good day,

I´m translating from Spanish to English a book on biographies of famous scientists. All of them have studied at different universities around the world. If one of the scientists studied at "Universidad de Caracas", should I write "he studied at University of Caracas" or "he studied at Universidad de Caracas" ? I appreciate your help.It should be translated into English-the University of Caracas.

MrROOS
September 22, 2014, 07:51 AM
Welcome to the forums!It should be translated into English-the University of Caracas.

Thanx a lot, Rusty. Could you please help me again in This case. I've found in other's biographies different ways to say that someone studied and got a degree. Which one is Better?:

Mathematician of the National University

Mathematician from the National University

Mathematician at the National University

I looked for biographies at Wikipedia and found the three examples, but I'm afraid not all of them are correct.

Once again, thanx in advance.

Rusty
September 22, 2014, 04:06 PM
has a ... degree in Mathematics, from National University ...