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tranfree issue 29 - 3rd April 2001
Answers to Questions Most Commonly Asked by Translators No. 2
Where Can I Find An Online/Distance Learning Translation Course?
by Phil Naylor
Searching the internet, I have found that there are quite a few
courses available. Some of them are quite specialised and a lot
of institutions only offer courses for a limited range of
language pairs. Hopefully the following review will give you some
good pointers to the sort of course you may be looking for. 
A useful resource to find distance learning courses of any kind
is 'The International Distance Learning Course Finder'. Type in
the keyword 'translation' and see a whole variety of courses from
introductory & beginner through to specialist & advanced...
http://www.dlcoursefinder.com/
The Institute Of Linguists Diploma in Translation is well
recognised and obtainable through a variety of colleges and
institutions by distance learning. Further information is
available at...
http://www.iol.org.uk/
The rest of this article briefly reports on my recent findings
when trying to help translators answer the question "Where can I
find an online/distance learning translation course?" Best of
luck!
- Postgraduate Diploma in Translation - Distance Learning Route.
City University (London, UK) offers a range of distance learning
courses leading to the Diploma in Translation Examination.
Courses are available for a good range of language pairs, and for
those not yet offered other languages may be made available if
demand is sufficient. Registrations for this course must be
completed by end of May. More details from...
http://www.city.ac.uk/languages/dtdl.htm
- Words Language Services (Dublin, Ireland) offers
'internationally recognised CERTIFICATE and DIPLOMA courses for
professional translators, which may be followed from anywhere in
the world by distance learning'. The WLS Certificate in
Translation is billed as suitable for novice translators, with
the focus on practical translation training and subject areas
typical to commercial translation. More details from...
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~wls/tranbroc.htm
- The Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain) offers
online and residential graduate courses in translation, focusing
on Spanish-English. More details from...
http://www.ice.urv.es/trans/future/m.html
- International House (Barcelona, Spain) offer courses for
English and French into Spanish. More details from...
http://www.ihes.com/bcn/
- For French to English translators there's an online 'High Level
Translation Skills' course operated by Cardiff University...
http://www.cf.ac.uk/learn/languages/index.html
- Also, there's the British Institute in Paris distance courses
in French and English translation...
http://www.bip.lon.ac.uk/413e.htm
- And a Certificate in Translation for French and English offered
by the Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface (Manitoba,
Canada)...
http://www.ustboniface.mb.ca/cusb/maubin/
- More French and English translation from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with an introduction to theoretical
aspects of translation...
http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu/distance/
- The International Centre for Distance Learning of The Open
University (UK) offer a small range of translation related
courses, and a large range of language and linguistics courses.
You can search their database here...
http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk/icdl/subject/arts/langstud.htm
- New York University (USA) offers a small variety of online
courses for different aspects of English to Spanish and German to
English translation...
http://www.sce.nyu.edu/dyncon/virt/cour_non-_tran.html
- Featham School of English (Rethymnon, Crete) offer a course
leading to the Diploma in Translation. I have no details, but
they can be contacted at... featham@ret.forthnet.gr
Many of these institutions offer other language courses too, but
I have only listed those available as online and/or distance
learning. If I've missed any, please do let me know details so
that I may pass the information on to anyone interested...
phil@translatortips.net
If you are interested in other college courses, a must see for
anyone looking to pursue translator related education is the
excellent LIST OF TRANSLATOR-TRAINING INSTITUTIONS maintained by
Anthony Pym...
http://www.fut.es/~apym/tti/tti.htm
This list is prepared under the auspices of the Training and
Qualification Committee of the Fédération Internationale des
Traducteurs (FIT). There's a brief outline of what each
institution offers, with their contact details, for institutions
in 61 different countries! Thank you and well done Anthony
Phil Naylor is Business Development Manager of...
http://www.translatortips.com
helping translators do better business
There's also now extra information on Distance Learning Courses
for translators in the tranfree discussion forum...
Click here to go there now...
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