Intermediate Japanese Translation Skills
- Course Description
- Learning Objectives
- Who should take this course
- Textbook
- Instructor
- Instructor Biography
Course Description
This is an intermediate course for students who already have basic translation skills and wish to improve their skills further for professional purposes. The objectives of this course are to 1) learn practical translation techniques in business, 2) develop a knack for translating business-related materials such as business emails, press releases, essays, and PowerPoint slides, 3) learn how to edit and improve machine-translated texts, and 4) learn to become better writers in both Japanese and English. This course mainly focuses on Japanese-to-English translation but covers various approaches to translation from English into Japanese as well.
Learning Objectives
1. Improve Japanese-to-English translation skills.
2. Achieve better writing skills in Japanese and English.
3. Have greater understanding of translation in media and corporate communications.
2. Achieve better writing skills in Japanese and English.
3. Have greater understanding of translation in media and corporate communications.
Who should take this course
Those who wish to improve their overall translation and writing skills and aspire to work as professional translators.
Instructor Biography
Ming Tam is a translator and editor from Canada who works mainly in technical, medical, scientific, and academic fields. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Translation Studies from Portsmouth University, U.K., and a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University, Canada. She has work experience in biotech and pharma research as well as teaching. She has a passion for figuring out creative strategies to deal with hard-to-translate terms and culture-specific items, especially food terms, to bridge the gap between languages and cultures and facilitate communication.
Her goal is to help students learn not only practical translation skills, but also to translate with awareness of the purpose of translations and the role translators play in an increasingly globalized world.
Her goal is to help students learn not only practical translation skills, but also to translate with awareness of the purpose of translations and the role translators play in an increasingly globalized world.