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Instructors: Thomas Michael Baumgart
Event type:
Practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
06.MKD.0020
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 20
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie zzgl. Bevorzugung höherer Fachsemester
Allocation scheme: 100% MA KD
Requirements / organisational issues:
- This course is aimed at students with German as their mother tongue (A language) as well as students with German as a non-native language (B or C language).
- In order to pass the course, active and regular participation in class is required.
- Recommended literature and useful teaching material is the series "Basiswissen für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer" (Basic knowledge for interpreters and translators). This book series exists for the following countries: Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands, China, Russia, United Kingdom, USA, Poland, Austria, Turkey. Future interpreters and translators are advised to purchase the book, but it is not compulsory for successful course participation.
- We also use interactive and media-supported materials for knowledge consolidation, including the browser and app-based learning platform Kahoot! (www.kahoot.com). By using the quiz, the acquired knowledge should be consolidated in a playful way. It is not necessary to download the app. A smartphone, tablet or laptop is required to participate in the quiz rounds in class. Further details will be discussed in the first session.
- Emerging teaching materials will be uploaded to the Seafile platform. Further details will be discussed in the first session.
Contents:
In the course we deal with the two sub-topics "German language for interpreters" and "German cultural studies for interpreters".
Sub-topic "German language for interpreters"
During the sessions we deal with the following key questions and aspects to train our language skills:
- How are speeches structured, what is their purpose? Together we analyse speeches in an interpreting oriented manner.
- Exercises for learning conference vocabulary and developing German terms and phrases in a conference environment
- Basic information and tips on terminological preparation of assignments and presentation of CAI tools/terminology management tools
Sub-topic "German cultural studies for interpreters"
"Keep to the subject and the words will come." (Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius, Roman scholar, 234-149 BC): General and background knowledge plays a decisive role in the everyday life of an interpreter. All too often a (future) interpreter becomes aware of how many knowledge gaps need to be filled. Political and cultural general knowledge, on which this course focuses, turns out to be a particularly fundamental field of knowledge.
Based on the above-mentioned book series "Basiswissen für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer", we will deal with the topics of politics, public administration, business and the media from an interpreter-oriented and Germany-oriented perspective.
The aim of the course is to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of the above-mentioned contents, which will serve the participants in their studies and later in their professional life.
Recommended reading list:
Book series „Basiswissen für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer“ (Berlin: Frank & Timme, Verlag für wissenschaftliche Literatur), see for example here: https://hds.hebis.de/ubmz/Search/Results?type=allfields&service=catalog&lookfor=basiswissen%20f%C3%BCr%20dolmetscher%20und%20%C3%BCbersetzer
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