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Translation in Practice

This course offers you basic but valuable techniques used by a good translator in the translation between English and Chinese. We’ll discuss what is translation, what is good translation, and learn about how to produce good translations. All the examples used in this course are taken from the course instructor's own translations of various genres and topics of writing. These examples are elaborated on to show you how to understand the idea, style and tone of the writer, the historical and cultural context of the writing, as well as the explicit and implied meanings of words, the grammatical structures of sentences, and the logic of sentences and paragraphs in order to achieve faithfulness, expressiveness, and elegance in the translation. After completing this course, you will know what makes a qualified professional translator and acquire the abilities and skills that such a translator needs

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Rating 4.2★ based on 12 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort Ten weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week
Starts Jul 17 (41 weeks ago)
Cost $29
From Nanjing University via Coursera
Instructor Yuan Yao
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Language English
Subjects Languages Humanities
Tags Language Learning Learning English

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my biggest complaint

My biggest complaint about this course is that it is listed as a beginners course and requires only 3-5 hours per week of study.

our mother tongue

Some of them were very hard to understand even in our mother tongue and were taken out of context.

put into practice

I really gained a lot of practical knowledge about translation techniques that I’m sure I will be able to put into practice in the future.

real world may

So, in this regard translation in the real world may actually be easier than this course!

yet some weeks

I have been studying Mandarin for over four years and have learned to an intermediate level, yet some weeks I had to spend 30 or more hours per week on assignments.

english/spanish or english/french

Please do a Translation course in English/Spanish or English/French.

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Rating 4.2★ based on 12 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort Ten weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week
Starts Jul 17 (41 weeks ago)
Cost $29
From Nanjing University via Coursera
Instructor Yuan Yao
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Languages Humanities
Tags Language Learning Learning English

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