Arabic-L:PEDA:How to become a UN Translator Responses

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1) Subject:How to become a UN Translator Response
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Date: 23 May 2003
From: Milena Savova <ms93 at nyu.edu>
Subject:How to become a UN Translator Response

Periodically, the UN conducts examinations for translators and  
interpreters.  There was one announced a week ago (the information is  
probably available on the UN website) . The exams will be in September.  
  However, these are exams for people who know how to translate.  The UN  
does not have translator training courses.  They have language training  
courses open only to their staff.  So one has to learn the languages   
as well as translation somewhere else before applying to take those  
exams.   I hope this answers the question.

Milena Savova
Director
Center for Foreign Languages and Translation
New York University

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Date: 23 May 2003
From: Dorota Kowalska <dorota at aaahawk.com>
Subject:How to become a UN Translator Response

Most UN Translators are recruited or pass through the l’Ecole de  
Traduction et d’interprétation, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland. Here  
is their web site (French & Italian only): http://www.unige.ch/eti/

Dorota Kowalska

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3)
Date: 23 May 2003
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject:How to become a UN Translator Response

> .Swahili and vice versa. Does anyone know of this
> training program or have any contacts at the UN that
> we might talk to?
Mohamed Didaoui, who used to work at UNIDO in Vienna has also published  
on translator training, and I think he was the editor of the dalil  
al-mutarjim, two volumes of UN materials, including information on the  
tests translators have to pass to become UN translators.
It is a UNIDO publication:
2 volumes: Sales No. A/E.89.III.E.2
ISBN: 92-1-006010-5

Jan

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