Translation and Post-Editing Projects from French into German

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

• analyse a source document, identify potential textual and cognitive difficulties and assess the strategies and resources needed to reformulate it in line with communicative needs (1 – Translation); 
• summarise, rephrase, restructure, and shorten a message and adapt it to market needs rapidly and accurately in at least one target language, using written and/or spoken communication (2 – Translation); 
• implement the instructions, style guides, or conventions relevant to a particular translation (5 – Translation); 
• translate general and domain-specific material in one or several fields from one or several source languages into their target language(s), producing a ‘fit for purpose’ translation (6 – Translation); 
• translate different types of material on and for different kinds of media and target audiences, using appropriate tools and techniques (7 – Translation); 
• check, review, revise and evaluate their own work and that of others according to standard or work-specific quality objectives and assess the appropriateness of using tools for the work at hand (11 – Translation); 
• post-edit MT output using style guides and terminology glossaries to maintain quality standards in MT-enhanced translation projects.- (14 – Translation); 
• make effective use of search engines, corpus-based tools, text analysis tools, computer-assisted translation (CAT) and quality assurance (QA) tools where appropriate (16 – Technology); 
• plan and manage time (including complying with deadlines) (21 – Personal and Interpersonal); 
• work both autonomously and in virtual, multicultural and multilingual teams, using appropriate communication technologies (23 – Personal and Interpersonal); 
• clarify the requirements, objectives and purposes of the client, recipients of the language service and other stakeholders and offer the appropriate services to meet those requirements (29 – Service Provision); 
• interact at all stages with the client (negotiate deadlines, rates/invoicing, working conditions, access to information, contracts, rights, responsibilities, language service specifications, tender specifications, offer feedback etc.) (30 – Service Provision). 

• negotiate the price, deadlines and terms and conditions for a translation or post-editing project with a fictitious or real client; 
• draw up a quote and an invoice; 
• compile and use the semantic, phraseological and terminological content of a corpus of comparable and/or parallel specialised texts using dedicated tools (CAT tools, MT and/or AI); 
• translate or post-edit from French into German a specialised text within a given time frame, drawing on prior documentary and terminological research and using dedicated tools (CAT tools, MT and/or AI); 
• justify, where appropriate, translation or post-editing choices based on the documentary sources consulted.