Translation Seminar in French I.

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- understanding and mastering the basic methodological principles of translation from English into Slovak and implementing them in practice. After studying and mastering the content of this course, the student acquires the basic knowledge and masters the methodology of working with the source and target language by analysing the text and manages to transform the text from the source language into the target language with regard to its structure and lexis.
- focusing on translation from a foreign language into Slovak, acquiring practical knowledge in the field of translation of various simpler text units with emphasis on understanding the original text and its contextual context
Competence:
- mastering translation techniques
- identifying different styles of text
- identifying and correcting erroneous parts of the text
- understanding the author's ideas transforming them into the target language.
Skills:
- acquiring skills in translating cultural phenomena, learning to work with synonymy and homonymy, analysing a text from an editor's point of view and editing it
- applying the methodology of translating texts in the course of a business transaction, acquiring skills in translating advertising materials, institutional texts, and basic legal texts.