Course title: Basic course for beginning translators, Translation module.
Course duration: 7 lessons.
Target audience: Beginning and practicing translators who wish to get, systematize or add the knowledge in the translation sphere.

IMPROVING LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE
– analysis of the grammatical and lexical difficulties of English that present problems for translation
– discussion of typical translation errors in English
– emphatic and elliptical constructions
– translation of idioms
– building new terms
– faux amis

ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE
– grammatical and lexical transformations
– semantic structure of sentences
– differentiation and generalization of meaning
– antonymic translation
– infinitive, nominative and participial constructions

VARIOUS STAGES OF TRANSLATION
– fundamentals of dealing with the client
– basics of proofreading
– basics of editing

TECHNICAL ENGLISH
– abbreviations
– typical grammatical constructions
– stylistic clichés
– implicit expressions and terms
– technical neologisms
– translation of plans, drawings, specifications, charts, headings

SIMPLIFIED TECHNICAL ENGLISH
– reduction of ambiguity and facilitating CAT translation

MISCELLANEOUS
– international translation standard EN 15038
– internationalization and localization
– basics of legal translation
– translation of marketing materials