Translating Pharmaceutical Documents (German --> English)

Format: Videos
Topic: Medical translation
Course summary
Availability:This training is available on-demand

Duration: 100 minutes

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Language:English
Summary:A translation workshop for translators working from German into English.
Description
During this webinar, the presenter and participants will discuss, analyze and translate a variety of clinical trial/pharmaceutical texts. Issues relating to such documents will be presented, including the use of passive vs. active voice, future vs. present tense, verb phrase vs. noun phrase and the translation of impersonal constructions. Strategies will also be presented to enable translators to produce better translations of such documents. The presenter will also discuss resources specific to the German --> English language combination that are very useful in translating such documentation.





Target audience
Translators at any stage in their career
Learning objectives
During this webinar, the presenter and participants will discuss, analyze and translate a variety of clinical trial/pharmaceutical texts. Issues relating to such documents will be presented, including the use of passive vs. active voice, future vs. present tense, verb phrase vs. noun phrase and the translation of impersonal constructions. Strategies will also be presented to enable translators to produce better translations of such documents. The presenter will also discuss resources specific to the German --> English language combination that are very useful in translating such documentation.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
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Price: 35.00 USD

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Carmen Cross    View feedback | View all courses
Bio: Carmen Cross has been a professional medical translator of German and Arabic medical documents since 2005. She holds a Bachelor's and two Master's in Arabic language and linguistics, as well as an Arabic-English translation certificate from New York University. In addition to medicine and biotechnology, she is also interested in foreign language acquisition and linguistics. Like her page on Facebook
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