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neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 19:03
Spanish to English
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So long ago... May 4, 2023

I might be interested in some kind of training course, were I to be offered one. As long as it's nothing to do with shoehorning AI or ChatGPT into an already long-suffering translation "industry"…

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Cecília Alves
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 18:03
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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More than 5 years ago May 4, 2023

I never seem to manage to get round to it. I am usually too busy working and when I’m not the last thing I want to do is training. I do read plenty of articles and books and use it all to enhance my translation and business skills further. Some large translation projects I have been doing require me to update and refresh my knowledge about specific topics and I have been studying these informally on my own, mainly through books and published documents: agreements, conventions, etc. Besides tha... See more
I never seem to manage to get round to it. I am usually too busy working and when I’m not the last thing I want to do is training. I do read plenty of articles and books and use it all to enhance my translation and business skills further. Some large translation projects I have been doing require me to update and refresh my knowledge about specific topics and I have been studying these informally on my own, mainly through books and published documents: agreements, conventions, etc. Besides that (as I said on yesterday’s poll), I attended a summer course at Nova University in Lisbon on the formation of neologisms in modern Portuguese. Anyway, nothing surpasses hands-on experience, in my opinion. ▲ Collapse


expressisverbis
Elizabeth Joy Pitt de Morales
Edward Potter
Sławomira Kaczmarek
Philip Lees
Cecília Alves
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 19:03
French to English
. May 4, 2023

After more than 25 years of translation I don't really think I need any more training. I'm learning plenty every day though, since I get to translate all sorts of interesting stuff.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Philip Lees
Christopher Schröder
Anastasia Naoumi
 
patransword
patransword
Germany
German to English
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Seems to be more common than I thought! May 5, 2023

I've been translating since my first graduation, around 16 years ago. Living in my source language countries (first Barcelona, now in Munich) and translating nearly every working day - isn't that enough training?!

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
Member (2011)
Swedish to English
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Remote first aid refresher May 5, 2023

Probably won’t be needed in my translation career, but who knows, I might need to do the Heimlich manoeuvre on someone in the coffee shop I now practically live in while the AI does my work for me.

#21stcenturyhero

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Kay Denney
 
Alexandra Speirs
Alexandra Speirs  Identity Verified
Local time: 19:03
Italian to English
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Never May 5, 2023

I've been translating for around 40 years and have never had any "training" apart from a touch typing course when I was still at university.
The translation lessons at university focussed on literary subjects, not really a preparation for the real world.
 


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