This course is intended to enhance your understanding of and skills in translation from French to English through sustained translation practice as well as through the discussion of translation strategies. 

You explore the kinds of syntactical, stylistic, lexical and culturally-specific problems that arise when translating from French source texts to English target texts in a range of translation scenarios and across a range of text types. Common translation challenges such as transfer, compensation, gloss, exoticism, deceptive cognates, lexical gaps and cultural specificities as well as constraints of house style and character count will be identified and discussed, and you will learn how to develop techniques for dealing with these when translating into English