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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Translation in Practice by Nanjing University

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About the Course

This course offers you basic but valuable techniques used by a good translator in the translation between English and Chinese. We’ll discuss what is translation, what is good translation, and learn about how to produce good translations. 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. After completing this course, you will know what makes a qualified professional translator and acquire the abilities and skills that such a translator needs...

Top reviews

YW

Apr 6, 2020

Thanks for the efforts of Ms. Yuan, the instructor's and Coursera, the course is very good for improving my translation skills. It will be better to share some better translation in a specific thread.

PV

Jun 16, 2019

The lecturer was very knowledgeable and skilful. The course content was very well planned and managed. On the overall, I am very happy to have participated in this course. Thanks!

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By Menna Z

Aug 20, 2021

The course was very useful, effective and direct , thanks a lot.

By Nurana A

Feb 21, 2021

So beneficial course.

I learn some translation practices 👍👍👍👍

By Daniel T

Oct 9, 2022

Useful course for self improvement and personal development.

By Peng R

Aug 30, 2022

Not perfunctory at all; all is useful knowledge!

By PC T

Sep 19, 2021

Well organized structure with clear explanation

By Luiz

Oct 22, 2022

For a beginner level, it is very good!

By Phohnthip S

Apr 10, 2023

thank you for this great opportunity!

By almas b

Oct 27, 2023

Coursera courses is marvelous

By Isra Y

Oct 31, 2020

This course so useful to me

By Samantha L

Aug 27, 2021

It's a great course

By Lorena P

Apr 4, 2018

Great Course!!

By Nurainee M

Oct 30, 2020

good courses

By LC L

Aug 22, 2022

认真教材,认真教课

By Solihah M

Oct 31, 2020

Thank you

By Doaa S

Dec 18, 2022

Perfect

By Sultan Z

Oct 26, 2022

我觉得很好!

By Munib S

Oct 31, 2020

Good

By Sananee C

Oct 31, 2020

good

By Asma A

Oct 31, 2020

good

By Napisoh S

Oct 31, 2020

good

By danelle l

May 29, 2020

很好的課

By Shiu F N

Sep 14, 2022

I have really enjoyed taking the course, Translation in Practice. The lectures of Professor Yuan Yao have been well organized and carefully written; the examples are generally interesting and inspiring; and our assignments are always challenging. The only drawback in the course is that we have never got a chance to read any model answers of the assignments. Some of the questions we have encountered will stay unknown after the completion of the course. In addition, the grading system needs revision as the existing one cannot cover all levels of work submitted, especially when there were one or more students who failed to provide any of their work and who deserved nothing, but not a 60 % grade mark.

By Delfinn T

Feb 6, 2023

the issue with this peer graded course is that it's quite annoying to wait for grading,and the forum comments in the discussion are usually posted by others thoughtlessly, which makes the discussion points pointless to read because they aren't moderated. The assignments are pretty intense, actually, so actually requires quite a hgh level of proficiency in English and Chinese. Otherwise the course theories and techniques are well designed and a lot of effort is put into it. if one is already proficient in both English and Chinese, then it is a very good course if one puts in the efort

By Samson Z

Aug 17, 2020

The courses are curated with planned introductions for each unit and sections, and Ms.Yao tries very hard to complement it with related examples and practices,.

However, it can be better to expand the scope and the diversity of practice modules by adding some political, socioeconomic or entertainment & cultural materials to them.

By Van H

Oct 2, 2020

The course is great with many materials, especially the examples, they are easy to understand. I learned so much from the course. I also speak Chinese, so the course is appropriate for me, but I think with people who don't speak Chinese, it will be a little hard to understand all the examples.