Translation as a career
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Discover the skills needed to excel as a professional translator and gain insight into the world of translation. Enhance your language proficiency, conduct independent research, and engage in translation activities. This free course offers valuable learning outcomes for aspiring translators.
This free course explores translation as a career. During the course you will meet professional translators discussing their work and reflect on what they say. You will assess your own language level and find out how translators maintain their language skills. You will also engage in a short translation activity.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Understand the skills required to become a professional translator and what is meant by translation competence
Have an awareness of what it means to be a professional translator
Undertake an independent research activity
Evaluate personal language skills
Undertake a translation activity.
