Course Description
Learn English-to-French translation techniques through articles, literary works, technical texts, film reviews, and audiovisual documents. Students will develop a complete range of linguistic skills and master modern written and spoken French, enabling translation on a professional level.
Students gain linguistic proficiency while comparing the manner in which people of both cultures express themselves. All translations will be following by translation exercises leading to the comprehension of audiovisual documents.
Objectives
- Widen your vocabulary, translate and improve your listening skills
- Fine-tune your knowledge of grammar points
- Grasp subtleties of the French language
- Identify deceptive cognates (“false friends”) and traps
- Become aware of the difficulties of transposing thought from one language to another
- Perfect both your written comprehension and expression skills
- Develop the sense of flexibility and tolerance in linguistic expression necessary for translation work
- Understand how nothing in the translation process should be taken for granted
- Call into question and challenge your knowledge of your own native language
- Look at all texts with different eyes and sensibilities
- Consolidate the skills which will enable you to undertake translations on a professional level
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