Interpreting & Translating Courses at Petersham TAFE, 2104

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Diploma of Translating and Diploma of Interpreting in the Smart and Skilled 2014 NSW Skills List

Petersham TAFE is offering Interpreting and Translating courses in Korean, Mandarin (Interpreting), Chinese (Translating) and Spanish.
Our courses are Diploma of Translating 11698, Diploma of Interpreting 11692 and Advanced Diploma of Interpreting 11693.
Please check our wiki for information on how to apply for one of our courses.
To get an idea about what we do, watch this video where Marjorie, a 2012 Interpreting student, tells you about her Diploma of Interpreting course.

Translators' Web Presence

Tomorrow we are going to work on blogs as the last activity for the course. While I was looking at my twitter, I came across this video by Ian Emmet. It is a very simple way of advertising what his translation company does.



Via twitter, Ian Emmet has sent me a couple more videos. The one below shows some of  his hospitality and tourism translations.


You can achieve something similar with one of the many open source movie making/slide sites (animoto, stupeflix, even slideshare, smile box, etc).

You could easily create a similar little video with photostory or movie maker. Then you upload it onto your blog or onto youtube or vimeo to give it more air play.
Social media marketing for transaltors is becoming more topical by the minute.There are even webminars taking place. Just explore the net to get ideas and learn form what is going on out there!

lectos, what are they?

Read this informative post @bootheando on sociolinguistic varieties in Spanish, called lectos. Both interpreters and translators must render this linguistic information when  when doing their interpreting/translating job.

The video below comes from Argentina and explains lectos in a very simple way.

Los Lectos - Conectar Igualdad -  Videos

Colocaciones en español

Thanks to Bootheando for informing us about the links below. They are all in Spanish and deal with the topic of collocations in Spanish.
Bootheando  sigue inspirándonos con la publicación de un artículo sobre colocaciones con un par de enlace interesantes:

• DICE Diccionario de colocaciones del Español de la Universidad de la Coruña

• Enlace al blog de Alberto Bustos, que ha publicado un libro electronico en su Blog de Lengua Española bajo la  licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-No comercial-Sin obras derivadas 3.0. Ello quiere decir que podemos incrustarlo (embed) en nuestro blog o imprimirlo, siempre que lo usemos sin fines lucrativos.
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A Translator

UN translator talks about her job and the skills required to do it.

• Check this very interesting discussion about translators as business people vs freelancers.

• Remember your dictionary project is due this week.
• Check the assignment page in our wiki bridginggap, week 10. You will be asked to translate some birth certificates. Good practice for your future jobs as translators.
  

Ethics of Translators: Intervention

An interesting issue in translation ethics is that of intervention. Translator sues boss over sexist translation is a poignant example of intervention (in this case ideological as well as linguistic).

For a more academic point of view, check the video series by Anthony Pym on the same topic. He gave a talk on the ethics of translators at the conference Profession, Identity and Status Translators and Interpreters as an Occupational Group (March 15-19-09, Tel Aviv University & Bar Ilan University). The focus was on Intervention.

Watch the video and answer the questions on this quiz (which is a trial for this quiz maker)

Ethics of Translators » Make A Quiz