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Jan 5, 2011

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Interlangue (X)
Interlangue (X)
Ангола
Local time: 06:25
англиски на француски
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Was too quick Jan 5, 2011

I said over 300 but it is actually way over 500: between registration, travel and accommodation, each seminar costs me about 1,000 EUR (1326.9639 USD at this very moment).

 
neilmac
neilmac
Шпанија
Local time: 06:25
шпански на англиски
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Other Jan 5, 2011

Never seem to manage to get round to it. Am usually too busy working. Same goes for conferences, pow/wows... etc.
Maybe some day...


 
Rita Utt
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Франција
Local time: 06:25
англиски на германски
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sit down and read Jan 5, 2011

There are a few useful training courses (Wordfast or Trados basics) but if I have to learn things concerning translation and my specialty, it is more important to find the right book, the right article and to take time to understand ...
Maybe this is because I have a degree in translation to start with ...


 
Paula Hernández
Paula Hernández
Шпанија
Local time: 05:25
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Depends on the year Jan 5, 2011

Sometimes I do free courses, right now I am doing an MA and therefore paying more than 500 EUR a year.

 
Michael Harris
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Германија
Local time: 06:25
германски на англиски
Same here Jan 5, 2011

neilmac wrote:

Never seem to manage to get round to it. Am usually too busy working. Same goes for conferences, pow/wows... etc.
Maybe some day...


Although I definately want to attend a conference this year again.


 
Oliver Lawrence
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Италија
Local time: 06:25
италијански на англиски
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'Training courses' or 'Training'? Jan 5, 2011

Although I don't often attend formal courses, having attended a one year distance learning university course a couple of years ago, I do participate regularly in webinars, read plenty of articles and books and use it all to develop and implement ideas on how to enhance my translation and business skills further. So my answer would have been different if the poll question had referred to 'Training' full stop.

 
Adnan Özdemir
Adnan Özdemir  Identity Verified
Турција
Local time: 07:25
германски на турски
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0 EUR Jan 5, 2011

0 EUR

Saludos


 
Amandine Added
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Обединето Кралство
Local time: 05:25
Член (2010)
англиски на француски
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always looking for more books Jan 5, 2011

Rita Utt wrote:

There are a few useful training courses (Wordfast or Trados basics) but if I have to learn things concerning translation and my specialty, it is more important to find the right book, the right article and to take time to understand ...
Maybe this is because I have a degree in translation to start with ...


I have never really find the perfect training course, so I'm reading a lot: books, magazines, press articles.
Read, read, read, that would be my moto)


 
Gianluca Marras
Gianluca Marras  Identity Verified
Италија
Local time: 06:25
англиски на италијански
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same here Jan 5, 2011

neilmac wrote:

Never seem to manage to get round to it. Am usually too busy working. Same goes for conferences, pow/wows... etc.
Maybe some day...


 
Steven Capsuto
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Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 00:25
шпански на англиски
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Professional and academic conferences but not courses Jan 5, 2011

If there's something I want to learn about, I can usually find a way to learn it without a course (through books, articles, websites, videos, etc.).

However, I do attend conferences (usually one per year), and I've learned a lot from the sessions I've attended and the people I've met there.


 
Germaine
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Канада
Local time: 00:25
англиски на француски
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Reading, discussing and reading again... Jan 5, 2011

Rita Utt wrote:
There are a few useful training courses (Wordfast or Trados basics) but if I have to learn things concerning translation and my specialty, it is more important to find the right book, the right article and to take time to understand ...


This is mandatory and there is no escape.


 
Miroslav Jeftic
Miroslav Jeftic  Identity Verified
Local time: 06:25
Член (2009)
англиски на српски
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0 Jan 5, 2011

I don't invest in them.

 
LingoKat
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Германија
Local time: 06:25
француски на германски
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Depends Jan 5, 2011

I enrolled for a distance learning MA in Translation course last year and spent about 760 € on tuition fees. This year it will be more since I will be taking more credits ...

[Edited at 2011-01-05 19:11 GMT]


 
Rolf Kern
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Why Jan 5, 2011

...should we need training courses? Probably only users of such queer programs like Wordfast and Trados, invented by people who have no idea, what translating is.

 
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