ProZ would like to invite you to attend the first ever, co-sponsored Wordfast Training for Beginners (levels 1 and 2) on April 26^th and 27^th in Nice, France. This is a great opportunity for you to learn how to make the most out of your CAT tool, meet other translators who use Wordfast, and take advantage of a business trip to visit the lovely city of Nice and its surroundings.

The training will be conducted in English by John Di Rico. The first day will be devoted to setting up and using the general features of Wordfast. The second day will focus on more advanced features: glossary and translation memory management, references, PlusTools, Pandora’s Box, etc. We'll learn how to translate Excel, Powerpoint, and HTML files and also how to create a translation memory from past translations using the alignment function.

The training will last two full days. John has negotiated special discount rates at hotels for training participants.

The cost is €250 including tax. For French participants who would like to use their annual government-sponsored training stipend to pay for the training (FIF-PL), the cost is €375 including tax.

Space is limited so reserve your spot as soon as possible! We look forward to seeing you in April!

• Place: Nice – ARAPL, 22 avenue Georges Clemenceau

• Dates: April 26-27, 2006 (9:00 am – 5:00 pm) 

• Price: €250 or €375 (FIF-PL)

• Number of participants: maximum of 12

• Required experience: working knowledge of MS Word

• Trainer: John DiRico, Apex Traduction

• Forum: 

  http://www.proz.com/forum/250

  (Only attendees with a ¨registered and paid¨ status have access to that Forum)

After you have registered, please contact the Trainer at

Apex Traduction

15 bd St Roch

06300 Nice

Tel : +33 4 93 89 05 57

Skype: jmdirico

jmdirico at apextra.net

www.apextra.net

He will provide you with payment details (wire transfer, check, etc.) and a training contract (FIF-PL, DIF).

After your payment is received, your status will be changed to ¨registered and paid¨ and your spot for the session will be secured.

Program:

09h00 -10h45

Why use CAT tools?

Segmentation, Translation Memory, additional functions, getting started with Wordfast

First translation session:

How to create a translation memory (TM), description of an open segment, protecting delimiters, closing a translation session, resuming a translation session, return to the previous segment, cancel a segment, force segmentation, copy the source segment, expand/shrink segments, provisional segments, revising a segmented document

10h55 -12h10

Dealing with placeables:

Preview, selecting placeables, copying placeables, personalizing placeables

Cleaning up your document after translating:

Usual option (“Tools” tab in the WF interface) - clean-up report, simple option (“Quick-clean” icon in the Wordfast toolbar)

Analysis functions:

Preview, analyze a document, understand the results of an analysis

BREAK for Lunch

13h40 -15h10

Terminology management:

Preview, glossaries, creating a glossary, opening an existing glossary, using a glossary, insert the target word where the cursor is located, open the glossary editor with a word selected, open a glossary scroll-down toolbar

Glossary editor:

Preview, import terminology, glossary editor shortcuts and methods, the Open button, the Tools button, exercises

15h20 -16h50

Quality control functions:

Preview, typo functions, spelling or grammar correction functions, respecting untranslatable elements

Translation memory management (TM):

Preview, create and select a translation memory, import a TMX translation memory

Translation memory editor:

Optimizing TM’s, background translation memory (BTM)

Day 2

09h00 -10h45

Translation memory management (TM):

Attributes: preview, personalizing
Penalties: preview, personalizing.
Translation memory rule (“TM rules”):

TM Editor:

Practice using filters, practice sorting using special filters: merging memories, marking redundant entries, reverse source and target, rewriting in Unicode

Background translation memory (BTM):

Preview, use

10h55 -12h10

Personalizing placeables, working on tagged files (HTML), how to manage fields, hyperlinks, e-mail addresses, URL’s, bookmarks

The Tools tab in Wordfast:

Cleanup, Analyze, Quality-Check, Translate, Extract

BREAK for Lunch

13h40 -15h10

Terminology management:

Personalizing fuzzy terminology recognition, using “Fields 1, 2, and 3” of the glossary, creating a blacklist

Glossary editor:

Practice using filters, practice sorting using special filters: reverse source and target, rewriting in Unicode

Translating Excel and PowerPoint files

15h20 -16h50

Reference searches:

Context search: personalizing and strategies

Reference search: personalizing and strategies

Links to external dictionaries

Advanced functions of “Pandora’s Box”

16h50 – 17h00

Evaluations