Intercultural Communication and Translation News

Imperial College London is running a distance learning course:

Translation Technology: Localisation e-Learning Course
11 January - 26 March 2010

Imperial College London is pleased to announce next run of a popular 11 weeks e-learning programme for professional translators. This is an exciting course on software and games localisation run in collaboration with the Humanities Department at the College.

This course will be valuable to anyone who wants to further their career in the translation industry, and is a very important stepping-stone to becoming a software localiser.

Topics include:
• Introduction to the key concepts of localisation
• Localising resource (software) files
• Localising help files (WinHelp and WebHelp)
• Screenshooting and localising graphics
• Localising games

Places on the course are limited therefore early booking is recommended.

For further details please visit our website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/cpd/localisation

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