Catalan accreditation information request Thread poster: Neil Rear
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Neil Rear 
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:28
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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Hello all,
Can anyone out there tell me how I go about getting accreditation as a Catalan-English translator? I live in London, so naturally I would like to get accreditation in London or, if need be, somewhere in the UK.
Thank you!
| | | | Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 21:28
Spanish to English
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| IOL or ITI (UK) | Feb 14, 2006 |
Neil Rear wrote:
Hello all,
Can anyone out there tell me how I go about getting accreditation as a Catalan-English translator? I live in London, so naturally I would like to get accreditation in London or, if need be, somewhere in the UK.
Thank you!
Hi Neil
To get accreditation to EN, it seems logical to obtain it in an EN speaking country. The first people to contact are the Institute of Linguists IOL and the Institute of Translators ITI in the UK
www.iol.org.uk
www.iti.org.uk
Catalan is not the 'official' language of any country and may not be a listed examination language, as demand for official accreditation may not be high. I work from CAT, and most of teh work, for obvious reasons, is 'local', and/or from the CAT Govt.
Failing that, maybe a US body accredits CAT-EN.
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Just a guess, but maybe there is some sort of accreditation by the Government of Andorra (where Catalan is the only official language). Why don't you try contacting their Embassy?
| | | | Alan Thompson
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:28
Spanish to English
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| Try IoL first | Feb 14, 2006 |
Hi Neil,
The Institute of Linguists should definitely be your first port of call. The benchmark for professional translators is the Diploma in Translation which is set once a year in November.
They offer most languages but they do require a minimum of five candidates per language combination...
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| Accreditation from the Generalitat | Feb 14, 2006 |
Lia Fail wrote:
Catalan is not the 'official' language of any country and may not be a listed examination language, as demand for official accreditation may not be high.
The Generalitat exam for En-Cat also counts for Cat-En. The exam is in Barcelona.
As pointed out in the above post, Catalan is indeed official in one country: Andorra. It wouldn't surprise me if Andorra didn't have an embassy in London and they were represented through the Spanish embassy, or possibly the French embassy. This is often what happens with microstates.
| | | | Neil Rear
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:28
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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Hi Lia,
Thanks for your contribution. I will try ITI, I had not thought of them.
Best wishes,
Neil.
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