Workshops/Forums/Training Opportunities

Improve your translation skills through workshops and training; exchange information across worldwide translator communities through forums.

Workshops

• #TranslatingEurope Workshops. Access to several workshops per month related to both translation and interpretation.
• American Translators Association (ATA). Offers virtual and face-to-face translation workshops and seminars.
• Association of Translators and Interpreters of Alberta (ATIA). Organises webinars, examinations for incoming translator/interpreter members of ATIA, and other events related to translation.
• MCIS Language Solutions. Publishes online newsletters monthly to update readers on their new programs, workshops, webinars, events, training sessions for translators/interpreters, etc.
• Traduversia. In this website you will be able to find workshops about audiovisual translation in Spanish.

Monolingual Forums

• Centro Virtual Cervantes (Spanish, monolingual). Here you have several forums in Spanish for translators, hispanists, educators, etc.
• Larousse Forum (French, monolingual). Ask any question related to the French language.
• Larousse Forum (French/English, bilingual). Ask any question related to a translation from English to French or from French into English.
• Twitter: @RAEinforma (Spanish, monolingual). Ask any linguistic question to the Real Academia Española to this account using #dudaRAE.

Multilingual Forums

• ProZ  Translation industry discussion forums (multilingual). Open discussion forum about translation and interpretation.
• Tatoeba (multilingual). It is a large database of sentences and translations developed by members worldwide.
• Translators Cafe (multilingual). It includes translation, interpretation, literature, CAT tools, language-specific forums, etc.
• WordReference Forums (multilingual). It includes a great variety of language-specific forums.

Training Opportunities for Translators

• Association of Translators and Interpreters of Alberta (ATIA). Lists plentiful training opportunities for translators and interpreters.
• MCIS Training Programs. Organised by MCIS Language Solutions, a not-for-profit social enterprise, it focuses on training community translators and interpreters in medical, legal and social services translation. Some of the Training Programs are certified.
• SDL Trados. Offers translators and project managers a series of training courses that introduce the use of several translation (management) software.
• Translation Program. Offered by the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, it lists various courses of translation between English and other languages (i.e. Arabic. Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, French, Chinese, Korean), some of which are certified.