The World Health Organization is recruiting an
English – French translator/editor
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Duration of contract: 2 years
Application deadline: 11 May 2009
Requirements: Degree in translation or modern languages, French mother tongue, at least five years of translation experience
More information on the WHO’s website
To see more jobs for translators, visit the Language and Translation Job Board.

Online Certificate in Technical Translation and Electronic Tools: Portuguese-English, English-Portuguese
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
From May 5 to July 7 2009
50 hours, 10 weeks
Course modules:
The Professional Market (10 hours). What Is Translation?; Text and Brief; Translator-Client Relations.
Electronic Tools (15 hours). Revision Tools; Internet Searches and Resources; Terminology Management Tools; Translation Memories (SDL Trados, DéjàVu).
Translation Strategies (15 hours). Translation Techniques; Parallel Texts; Terminology Mining; Practical Considerations.
Final Projects (10 hours). Large translation projects to be carried out by the course participants, which will be expected to put into practice what they have …

The International Atomic Energy Agency is recruiting an English to French translator.
Main duties: English to French translation of legal, scientific and technical texts, terminology research
Requirements: French as main language, thorough knowledge of English, University degree and at least 3 years of experience in translation
Location: Vienna, Austria
Duration of contract: 3 years
Application deadline: April 22, 2009
More information on the IAEA’s website.
To see more jobs for translators, visit the Language and Translation Job Board.

Friday, March 20, 2009
Medical translation course starts in May
By MARIKO KATO
Staff writer
Japan’s first full-scale medical translation course will start in May at translation colleges run by Inter Group Co. to produce trained interpreters for hospitals.
Yearlong courses in medical translation between Japanese and English will be held at five branches of Inter Group, known as Inter Schools, for a total of 104 students in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima and Fukuoka.
The courses will be supervised by Rinku General Medical Center in Osaka, which opened an international clinic in 2006 where foreign patients …

The Department of Afroasiatic Studies, Sign Language and Language Practice (DASL) at the University of the Free State in South Africa is presenting the first Spring School for Translation Studies in Africa from 28 September to 3 October 2009.
The Spring School is presented for masters and doctoral students in translation studies from all over Africa with the aim of working towards an African agenda for translation studies.
The aim is to present the Spring School on an annual basis at various locations on the African continent.
The Spring School for Translation Studies …

PERFILES | En profundidad
Ioannis Ikonomou: El traductor griego que habla 32 lenguas
Albert Segura | Bruselas
Actualizado miércoles 18/03/2009 19:47 horas
¿Mi mayor locura? ¡Intenté aprender euskera en Pekín!’ Ioannis Ikonomou (Iraklio, Grecia, 1964) es uno de los 1.750 traductores que emplea la Comisión Europea, pero el único capaz de hablar 32 idiomas diferentes.[...]
Inglés, francés, alemán, español, holandés, portugués, sueco, italiano, danés, polaco, húngaro, turco, checo y eslovaco son sus 14 lenguas de trabajo y el griego su idioma materno.
Pero también se siente “cómodo” hablando en ruso, búlgaro, turco, árabe, hebreo, chino, …

Summer Translation Institute at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
June 25 – July 24, 2009
The Summer Translation Institute (STI), hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages at Western Michigan University, offers a unique opportunity for advanced language learners and professionals to improve their translation skills while working on their language proficiency. This program is unique in that it provides intensive translation training in Arabic, Chinese, French, and Japanese, which is available only in a handful of graduate programs in the United States despite the high demand for translators in the marketplace.
More information …