Specialised translation from Spanish to French : law and applied economics

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Traduction, de l'espagnol en français, de textes à caractère juridique. Les traductions se font à partir de documents authentiques que l'on est amené à traduire dans la profession et qui sont confiés exclusivement à un traducteur juré.

Le cours sera dispensé par deux enseignantes et sera ventilé comme suit :

• Volet judiciaire : Laurence Hamels (6 premières séances)
• Volet administratif et notarié : Valérie Spapen (6 séances suivantes)

Applied economics

In this course, you'll be facing the universe of specialized translation. You'll discover a large range of fields, topics and text shapes. Those texts will match different levels of difficulty. This learning process will allow you to understand better what a professional translator is.
This course is divided in 2 parts:
Written translation: Translation of texts dealing with micro- and macro-economy (monetary, tax, employment, environment, development policies, companies and markets). Specialized texts dealing with different topics and written in different printing format (editorials, press releases, reports, records, etc.) The level of difficulty will be flexible (grammar, loan translation, vocabulary adapted to style and text level, etc.)
Sight Translation: Oral translation exercise without any external resource: translation in French of a text dealing with the domains mentioned above, intermediate level. Flow, language level and quality are critical (vocabulary, tense sequence, grammar, natural speech in French, etc.)

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Familiariser l'étudiant avec le vocabulaire spécifique utilisé dans ces différents types de texte. Adapter son texte au public visé. Produire un texte clair, cohérent, utilisant un vocabulaire adapté et correct.

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At the end of the course, you'll be able to translate economic orientated texts, in written or oral way.
In written translation, you'll be able to analyze, understand, relay and reformulate in French the meaning of the specialized text. You'll also be able to comment the translation difficulties and justify your translation choices.
You will be able to translate a specialized text in the economic field at sight too. You'll translate without any external resource, you'll translate the meaning, the nuances, extract the logical links and reformulate the text in French in a natural, flowing and high-quality way.
You'll be able to use basic translation tools (unilingual and bilingual dictionaries) and the Internet.

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Maîtrise du français et de l'espagnol.

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Advanced knowledge of Spanish language.

Excellent knowledge of French

Curiosity for the different topics seen in class

Superficial understanding of the big fields seen in class

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Les étudiants seront invités à préparer à domicile et/ou en classe des extraits. Après mise en commun de différentes propositions, une version commune sera postée sur un fichier partagé sur Google Drive. Afin d'optimiser l'apprentissage et de garantir la richesse des échanges en classe, les étudiants sont tenus d'effectuer leurs propres préparations et s'abstiendront de recourir à des outils de traduction automatique.

Il est prévu que nous assistions à une audience de la Cour d'assises de Liège la semaine du 5 octobre et que nous recevions un traducteur juré lors d'une séance de cours.

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To improve your level in written translation, you'll read the texts, make your research and prepare a written translation at home. In class, you'll compare your translation to your fellow students' own translation and you'll analyze the solutions found to solve translation problems (phrase construction and structures, vocabulary and language level have to be adapted to the text). You'll also learn how to justify your translation choices.
To improve your level in sight translation, you'll prepare the text during a set time, without dictionaries or other resources, you'll learn to detect the logical connectors, you'll translate in French, then we'll be listening to an audio recording and will correct it as a group and then you'll be able to listen to your own recording as many times as necessary. This way, you'll be able to detect your own translating defaults and you'll be using the group correction to improve your own performance. By comparing your translation to your fellow students' you'll improve your skills in sight translation and you'll develop some automatic reflexes which will be very useful in your future career.

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Présentiel.

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Face-to-face course


Additional information:

Distance learning if face-to-face mode is not authorized because of the Covid, 2-hour class per week during Q1.

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Lectures de documents spécifiques aux traductions réalisées.

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Spanish unilingual dictionary French unilingual dictionary Following and reading of current affairs (online newspaper for example) in Spanish and French

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Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam


Further information:

Examen : traduction de deux extraits de 250 mots chacun correspondant à chaque volet. L'examen, d'une durée totale de 3 heures, se fera sur papier. Dictionnaire unilingue français, lexique des termes juridiques (Dalloz), grammaire et/ou dictionnaire des synonymes autorisés.

Les étudiant.es sont tenu.es de prendre connaissance de la charte ULiège sur l'utilisation de l'IA https://www.student.uliege.be/cms/c_19230399/fr/faq-student-charte-uliege-d-utilisation-des-intelligences-artificielles-generatives-dans-les-travaux-universitaires. 
Attention : l'utilisation de l'IA dans le cadre de ce cours est soumise aux contraintes précisées par les enseignantes.
 
L'utilisation de l'IA n'est autorisée que pour certaines activités qui seront définies en classe.

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Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam AND oral exam


Further information:

This teaching unit ("Unité d'enseignement," or UE) is subject to the principle of the "note absorbante," which means that the student having obtained a mark below 8/20 for one of the learning activities ("activités d'apprentissage," or AA) will receive a failing grade for the entire unit and will have to retake the failed AA in the second session regardless of the mathematical average of the two AA grades

Final exam at the end of Q1

Final note will be divided in 2 parts:

40% on a sight translation, done without any external resource and scheduled before the exam session (generally the last class), recorded in an audio format. Assessment standards: General vocabulary, specialized vocabulary, grammar, meaning, phrase constructions and speed.



60% on a written exam. Duration: 3.30 hours. Choice between 2 texts to translate, between 600 and 800 words each. All resources available can be used except the automatic translation software such as DeepL (failing to fulfill this instruction will lead you to immediate sanction). Assessment standards: Orthography, grammar, phrase constructions, style, general vocabulary, specialized vocabulary, typography, punctuation, meaning and omissions

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Premises for this course is not decided yet. If computer premises is not available, please come with your laptop and please download and install "Audacity" (free software, to download it, please clink here http://audacity.portalux.com/) Coming to class during the year is highly recommended to be able to improve your level. Please don't send any translation by email, no marking

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Valérie Spapen, V.Spapen@uliege.be

Laurence hamels, lhamels@uliege.be 

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Email: lcharlier@uliege.be