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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Translation in Practice by Nanjing University
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About the Course
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
Top reviews
SY
May 25, 2020
It would be great if the assignments are graded by professors.
CA
Oct 2, 2019
Although the course is aimed at Chinese translations, the professor manages to bridge that gap by introducing translation techniques that anyone can use.
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By JEISSON D A M
•Jan 13, 2025
no entiendo el curso me pueden ayudar a cancelarlo pensé que era para traducir en ingles