English for Friends and Family
The English for Family and Friends program provides a private, supportive English-language…
This certificate concentrates on employment in legal and medical settings. Classes can be taken only by those enrolled in a Certificate in Translation or Interpretation Studies. To request an exception, please contact the main office at (212) 650-3850 or [email protected].
Learn the basic skills needed to translate texts, improve technique, utilize resources, and address general challenges. The class covers legal translation, business and financial translation, translation for advertisement, medical translation, and editing and proofreading public service announcements.
This class introduces students to the world of community interpreting, specifically the different modes of interpreting in different settings. Course is conducted in English and Spanish.
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Interpretation.
This course expands on the topics covered in Introduction to Translation Studies for a more in depth look at legal, business and medical translation. The class covers news and literary translation.Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Interpretation.
This course focuses on the court interpreter profession in the U.S. The class covers court and legal terminology, as well as colloquial language as it relates to the concepts that appear in courtrooms and depositions. Issues that affect defendants or respondents with limited English proficiency within the courtroom culture will also be addressed.This course emphasizes the importance of note-taking for interpreters. Several techniques are reviewed so that students develop their own practical method.
This course reviews basic Spanish grammar concepts such as common parts of speech, tenses and sentence structure, and emphasizes comprehension and text analysis. This course is conducted in Spanish and enables students to have a better understanding of Spanish as a source language for translation and interpretation.
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The English for Family and Friends program provides a private, supportive English-language…