Realia
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Realia may refer to:
- Realia (library science)Realia (library science)In library classification systems, the term realia refers to three-dimensional objects from real life such as coins, tools, and textiles, that do not easily fit into the orderly categories of printed material...
- Realia (education)Realia (education)In education, realia are objects from real life used in classroom instruction by educators to improve students' understanding of other cultures and real life situations. A teacher of a foreign language often employs realia to strengthen students' associations between words for everyday objects and...
- Realia (translation)Realia (translation)In translation, Realia are words and expressions for culture-specific material things. The word realia comes from medieval Latin, in which it originally meant “the real things”, i.e. material things, as opposed to abstract ones. The Bulgarian translators Vlahov and Florin, who were the first to...