Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
très bonnes connaissances
English translation:
very good knowledge
French term
très bonnes connaissances
when translating a CV how do you distinguish between "tres bonnes connaissances" and "bonnes connaissances" for different languages when no level is given?
| 5 +9 | very good knowledge |
philgoddard
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| 4 +1 | Excellent knowledge / Expertise in |
Lara Barnett
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Jun 5, 2012 15:15: cc in nyc changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Jun 5, 2012 15:30: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
Jun 5, 2012 18:44: Yolanda Broad changed "Term asked" from "tres bonnes connaissances" to "très bonnes connaissances"
Jul 3, 2012 20:09: philgoddard Created KOG entry
Non-PRO (3): philgoddard, Richard Nice, cc in nyc
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Proposed translations
United States
Six languages into flawless English
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English, and 4 more.
very good knowledge
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Note added at 4 mins (2012-06-05 14:29:20 GMT)
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And in the second instance, remove the word "very".
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Turcotte Lyne
: totally agree!
8 mins
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Cyril B.
33 mins
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EirTranslations
41 mins
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writeaway
: too bad they don't have a 99% confidence button
1 hr
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Why only 99%? :-)
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Daryo
: that's exactly what was in the source text
2 hrs
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Rachel Fell
2 hrs
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| agree |
Tristan Jimenez
3 hrs
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AllegroTrans
4 hrs
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Jean-Claude Gouin
11 hrs
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United Kingdom
www.lingocraft.co.uk
Native in: English (Variants: Singaporean, UK, South African, British, Scottish, Irish) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
Excellent knowledge / Expertise in
I don't think it hurts to use these terms when a CV is designed to appeal to the reader. Also, I have found these terms to be widely used when it comes to skills and educational requirements for job searches.
"Technical Skills:
...
- Fluent HTML hand coding
- Excellent knowledge of DHTML
- Excellent knowledge of ASP
- Excellent knowledge of Javascript,
- Good knowledge Java, Java applet
- Good knowledge of CGI
- Good knowledge of PERL "
http://www.graphic-farm.com/CV.pdf
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Cyril B.
4 mins
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philgoddard
: In my book, "excellent" is not the same as "very good".
8 mins
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writeaway
: with Phil. excellent is wrong here
32 mins
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Daryo
: translating doesn't include the obligation to adapt to the target audience’s propensity to use “creativity” and "enhanced facts" in CV writing.
2 hrs
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AllegroTrans
: overtranslated
4 hrs
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