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Translation as a career
Translation as a career

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This free course was written by Tita Beaven.

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What makes a good translator: What is translating? Routes into Languages: Adapted from - http://www.nationalnetworkfortranslation.ac.uk/ resources/ what-are-skills-required

National Network for Translation: What is translating? Text: Copyright © Routes into Language, www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk. With permission from National Network for Translation.

PACTE. Building a translation competence model : John Benjamins

Common Reference Levels, Global scale: Taken from Council of Europe - https://rm.coe.int/

CEFR Specific Descriptors: © Council of Europe

Charis Ainslie: © Charis Ainslie

Gill Holmes: © Gillian Holmes

Keith Baddeley: © Keith Baddeley

Vicky Sharvill: © Vicky Sharvill

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Course image: iDian Lofton/TED, cleared under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic license. https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc/ 2.0/

Figure 1: John Benjamins. © PACTE 2003

Figure 2: © Gillian Holmes

Figure 3: © Vicky Sharvill

Figures 4 and 6: © Charis Ainslie

Figures 5 and 7: © Keith Baddeley

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