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Summer courses for translators and interpreters
Thread poster: ELENA MURARO
ELENA MURARO
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English to Italian
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Apr 17, 2008

Hi everybody. I would like to attend a course in Great Britain or Ireland to improve my English for my job.

I have been mainly a teacher, but I started working as a translator and interpreters 3 years ago and I like this job very much!!

I would like to make it my main job because teaching is becoming quite boring to me...but that is another question...

Has anybody attended special courses?

thank u in advance. Elena


 
Christine Schmit (X)
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Luxembourg
German to French
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summer courses for translators and interpreters Apr 17, 2008

Hi Elena,

I attended the University of East Anglia's English and translation summer school in 2003. I quite liked the course, they offered advanced English, creative writing, British culture, translation theory and practical translation courses. The English teachers were just great and you are assigned a tutor for practical translation. They also organised cultural visits to London, Cambridge, Sandringham as well as museum visits, ci
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Hi Elena,

I attended the University of East Anglia's English and translation summer school in 2003. I quite liked the course, they offered advanced English, creative writing, British culture, translation theory and practical translation courses. The English teachers were just great and you are assigned a tutor for practical translation. They also organised cultural visits to London, Cambridge, Sandringham as well as museum visits, cinema evenings, etc.
http://www.uea.ac.uk/into/summercourses.htm

The City University in London also offers short courses in the summer. They have English to Italian media translation for example.
http://www.city.ac.uk/languages/courses/courses_cpd.html

Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh has an intensive advanced English course with translation and interpreting courses.
http://www.hw.ac.uk/langWWW/english/courses/iaec.html

London Metropolitain University has some interpreting courses.
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/hal/shortcourses/programme-summer-2008.cfm

There is also the translation research summer school, held in Manchester this year, in case you are interested in doing research.
http://www.researchschool.org/

Best regards,
Christine
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ELENA MURARO
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Thank u very much! Apr 17, 2008

Christine. By the way...have u got any tipps also for German?

 
Christine Schmit (X)
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Luxembourg
German to French
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Germany Apr 17, 2008

In Germany, there is the sommer school in Germersheim, mainly for interpreting.
http://www.isg-uni-mainz.de/kursangebot.php

You can search for German language summer courses on
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In Germany, there is the sommer school in Germersheim, mainly for interpreting.
http://www.isg-uni-mainz.de/kursangebot.php

You can search for German language summer courses on the DAAD website.
http://www.daad.de/deutschland/deutsch-lernen/sommerkurse/00490.en.html

Good luck!
Christine
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My dream
My dream
Local time: 00:38
summer courses for translators and interpreters Apr 11, 2009

Hi everybody. I would like to attend intensive summer interpretation and translation course(Arabic into English and vice versa) in any University in Great Britain

I am studying in University of Jordan. My major is (Applied English) undergraduate
3.5 out of 4. I want to be a translator and interpreter.

Please help me because I don't have any idea about that




Thanks


 
VedranaB
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Croatian to English
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Courses Jun 14, 2009

Hello, I'm starting this topic again. Anyway, I'm from Croatia, I teach English at school and I am also a translator (English-Croatian and vice versa). I'm looking for a summer course somewhere in Britain, just to improve my language skills.

Can you recommend some courses that you attended and that were useful to you?

Thank you!


 
English-German; German-English Apr 27, 2010

hy!

im an italian student currently attending a two-year Master´s Degree in Graz (Austria) but i have several difficulties in translating from German into English and vice versa. Are there somewhere any specific summer courses I could attend?
thank you!

Anna De Biasio


 
Christine Schmit (X)
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Luxembourg
German to French
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Summer courses for translators and interpreters Apr 27, 2010

I have recently published a list of summer courses for translators and interpreters on my blog, I hope it will be useful for those looking for courses.
http://www.polyglot-blog.com/2010/01/22/summer-schools-2010-in-translation-and-interpreting/

Christine


 
Andrea D'Ambra
Andrea D'Ambra
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French to Italian
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which are the best? Jun 21, 2011

Could you please help me?
I found different courses for the summer but I'm confused because I don't know which is/are the best.

Herriott watt
http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/departments/languages-intercultural-studies/summer-school.htm
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Could you please help me?
I found different courses for the summer but I'm confused because I don't know which is/are the best.

Herriott watt
http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/departments/languages-intercultural-studies/summer-school.htm

Lake school of english
http://www.englishinoxford.com/courses/summer/intensive/

British study centres
http://www.british-study.com/adults/english-language-courses/general-english/

Skola
http://www.skola.co.uk/

Kings colleges
http://www.kingscolleges.com/

Thanks for your help and feedbacks!
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Maria Isabel Pazos Gómez
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Germany
Local time: 23:38
German to Spanish
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Still searching... May 24, 2012

Dear colleagues,

I am still looking for an adequate refreshing course GERENG, conference interpreting in UK or US. Cambridge has been strongly recommended... maybe someone has other options.

Thank you

Mabel


 
Jessie LN
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United Kingdom
Local time: 22:38
Spanish to English
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Anything in Spain for Spanish > English translators? Dec 18, 2012

Does anyone know of any summer courses in Spain for Spanish > English translators? I've seen one at Tandem, but it has a large focus on sworn translation and runs at an inconvenient time for me. All the others I've come across are for English > Spanish. Any ideas?

Thanks!


 
Caterina Bovini
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English to Italian
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Any Turkish courses? Jun 8, 2013

Hi everybody!
I am studying Turkish as I would like to add it to my combination. Do you know if there is any Turkish course for interpreters? I already have a MA in Conference Interpreting and I think that applying again to a university would be a waste of time...

Thanks

Caterina


 


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