Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Cairo

Objectives

• This course introduces you to basic but valuable techniques used by a good translator in translating between English and Arabic. We will discuss what a translation is, what a good translation is, and learn how to produce good translations.

Outcomes

After completing this course, you will know what makes a qualified professional translator and acquire the abilities and skills

Course Contents

All the examples used in this course are taken from the course instructor's own translations of various genres and topics of writing. These examples are elaborated on to show you how to understand the idea, style and tone of the writer, the historical and cultural context of the writing, as well as the explicit and implied meanings of words, the grammatical structures of sentences, and the logic of sentences and paragraphs in order to achieve faithfulness, expressiveness, and elegance in the translation.