Recognise that translation is a professional activity that uses professional tools and processes.
Understand concepts like Translation Memory, Glossary and File Filtering
Have access to a professional tool
Know how to use the tool for a translation project
Know how to use the basic functions, like concordances, searching, and working in the grid
Course Content
Welcome and Introduction
A quick overview
How to use this course
04:07
Introduction – What does it mean to be professional?
03:12
The Tools used by Translators
Translation in the Digital World
Professional translators have come a long way from the days when translations were hammered into stone.
Nearly all human translation is done with the help of computers.
So what are those Computer Aided Translation tools?
What are CAT tools?
03:26
Before you start: CAT Tool Concepts, Ideas and Principles
There is a wide range of CAT tools, but the key concepts are:
* To filter and protect File Formats
* To store and retrieve each sentence you translate
* To offer you a Work Space for all your translations
Filter and Protect
02:18
CAT tools Quiz
Store and Retrieve: The Translation Memory
01:44
Store and Retrieve: Terminology
02:47
What is important about Terminology?
Introducing to you: A Space to Work: The Workbench
Imported quiz
CAT tools Quiz
SmartCat the Tool for this Course – Sign up
The next two videos explain how you can sign up to SmartCat and set yourself up.
This is a pre-requisite to actually working with SmartCat as a CAT tool
The CAT Tool for this course (Video OK, no text)
01:43
Sign up to SmartCat
02:57
How-To: Video Tutorials about the Basics
The next three sessions are step-by-step tutorial videos.
Each video explains the key skills required to work in SmartCat.
There are two ways to use the videos:
a) Watch them before you first translate a document.
b) Use them as reference when you translate
Don’t forget that SmartCat also has a useful helpfile, which you find here:
https://help.smartcat.ai/hc/en-us/sections/360004140360-Editor-Tools
The previous video tutorials are like pieces of a puzzle, we still have to see how a whole workflow with SmartCat works.
Here it is - and you can use the source file to do it yourself.