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Translation
Course of Study

This page is still under construction.

This proposed program will be modified for the needs of individual students and establishments. It is presented here as a guide to the range of possibilities that are offered.

Some documents will be submitted on paper (that means they will be typed on a computer, of course). Documents that are submitted on paper must include a completed copy of the Submission Form.

You will be learning many new concepts in Translation.

You will be asked to submit material either by e-mail or on paper.

Assignments

Assigments that are not to be submitted

Week 1

  • Get your e-mail address (0)

  • Read the forms documents (optionally, print them out) (0)

    Week 2

  • Join the following e-mail groups at your own e-mail address.

  • Make at least one copy of the Submission form

    Assignments to be submitted on paper

  • Order the Rates page

  • Meaning of interesting family member names

    Subsequent weeks

    Note: Please staple your completed Submission form to each of these assignments

  • Shul page, 2 paragraphs

  • Resume (on paper)

  • Autobiography (on paper)

  • Translating Kodesh

  • 60 cm article

  • Brochure

  • Editing practice, page 2

  • Your translation for a real client: Date due depends on negotiations with your client

    Submitted by E-Mail

    The following materials must be submitted by e-mail by the end of the week preceding our class. Be sure to save a copy of the e-mailed submission on your diskette.

    Assignments to be sent to the instructor

  • Submit a real translation that makes me laugh. If possible, please give me a photograph or a very clear and good photocopy.

  • Analyze a significant thread with a large number of postings in Hebrew Translating. Tell how you would use the term in different contexts.

  • Improve the Grossman Translation website.

  • Thinking translationly: H/E differences. See subjects below. Five items required in any single category from the list below. Choose up to 10 categories (with five items in each).

  • Opposites (זה לעומת זה (קהלת ג' י"ד: The same word is sometimes also used with an opposite meaning. Give five examples in a single language, with definitions and examples (Flammable/inflammable; to bone a chicken, sanctions, נחשלים-מחושל, חטא-לחטא, ויחלוש יהושע-חלש)

    Assignments to be submitted by e-mail:

  • Who can succeed as a translator? Prioritize your reasons, with most important reason first

  • How I translate

  • Dictionary preferences and reasons

  • Six ridiculous Hebrew terms or names

  • Six bus terms

  • Six wedding terms

  • Six wrong translations they taught us

  • Six more untranslatables

  • Translation vs. interpretation

    Major project

    For the major project, you may work on any topic, document, or genre. The bad ורגמוהו draft must take 5 hours using Grossman's method (we'll learn what that means).

  • Submit the first, awful draft by Rosh Chodesh Adar, either typed or handwritten, on paper; do not submit the original Hebrew document

  • Give me a photocopy of the original Hebrew document and e-mail the final draft to the instructor

  • We will discuss the paper together.

  • Submit the final printed document two weeks after our meeting

  • Checklist: Include these items as a single unit when submitting the final document:

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