Poll: Do you take part in some sort of continuing education/training? Лице кое објавува дискусија: ProZ.com Staff
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I just learn as I go along.
The trouble with training courses is that they're never specific to your needs, so you learn a load of stuff you don't need, and don't learn a load of stuff you do.
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As a translator I’m always learning new things and most of my CPD is done on a daily basis, however some large translation projects I have been doing for a human rights organization require me to update and refresh my knowledge about specific topics (labor rights, LGBT rights, racism, xenophobia, migration, extradition…) and I have been studying these informally on my own, mainly through books and published documents: agreements, conventions, etc. Besides that I’ve attended some summer cou... See more As a translator I’m always learning new things and most of my CPD is done on a daily basis, however some large translation projects I have been doing for a human rights organization require me to update and refresh my knowledge about specific topics (labor rights, LGBT rights, racism, xenophobia, migration, extradition…) and I have been studying these informally on my own, mainly through books and published documents: agreements, conventions, etc. Besides that I’ve attended some summer courses at Nova University in Lisbon, the last one two years ago on the formation of neologisms in modern Portuguese. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Mario Freitas 
Бразил
Local time: 09:08
англиски на португалски
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| Not formally | Jan 28, 2019 |
I'm 52 y.o., translating since 1986. I really don't think traditional courses would be of any use to me anymore. However, I do a lot of researching and reading to stay up to date with the recent kwnowledge and technology, as every translator should.
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Rita Utt
Франција
Local time: 14:08
англиски на германски
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I think MOOCs are a very interesting way to specialize.
| | | | Ricki Farn
Германија
Local time: 14:08
англиски на германски
Chris, channeling Goethe today?
O glücklich, wer noch hoffen kann,
Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen!
Was man nicht weiß, das eben brauchte man,
Und was man weiß, kann man nicht brauchen. - Faust I, Vers 1064 ff.
O happy the man who still can hope
Though drowned in a sea of error!
Man needs the things he doesn’t know,
What ... See more Chris, channeling Goethe today?
O glücklich, wer noch hoffen kann,
Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen!
Was man nicht weiß, das eben brauchte man,
Und was man weiß, kann man nicht brauchen. - Faust I, Vers 1064 ff.
O happy the man who still can hope
Though drowned in a sea of error!
Man needs the things he doesn’t know,
What he knows is useless, forever. - translated by "Poetry in Translation"
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| | | | | "Placid island of ignorance" | Jan 28, 2019 |
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." (H.P. Lovecraft)
| | | | | Ich bin des Treibens müde | Jan 28, 2019 |
Ricki Farn wrote:
Chris, channeling Goethe today?
Today Goethe, tomorrow Snoop Dogg.
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