Japanese listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation skills training - Translation

Author: Fan Chunjuan, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2001-06-01
Features: Translation courses are practical courses with a relatively high starting point and should be closely tied to actual practice. Translation courses are about practice—only through practice can one learn translation. Therefore, if translation textbooks are disconnected from reality, students will feel that what they have learned is just theoretical knowledge, unable to solve practical problems when they graduate and start working as professional translators. To align with translation practice, this book presents translations of various types of source texts, including both Japanese-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-Japanese translations. The materials are diverse, combining practicality with representativeness, while fully considering scientificity, knowledge, comprehensiveness, and systematicity. The entire book includes 90 complete original passages of various genres and contents (see the appendix for a detailed list of original titles). The book is divided into three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. The beginner and intermediate levels focus on Japanese-to-Chinese translation, while the advanced level focuses on Chinese-to-Japanese translation. Due to the limitations of the original texts, efforts have been made to progress from simple to complex and from easy to difficult. The three levels consist of a total of 17 lessons, each comprising eight parts: original text, annotations, translation, translation tips, translation knowledge, discussion questions, skill training exercises, and reference answers for skill training. The translation tips and translation knowledge systematically and hierarchically explain translation theory and Sino-Japanese mutual translation techniques from the perspectives of translation engineering and the translation thinking process. In addition to serving as a university-level textbook for Japanese majors and a graduate-level textbook, this book, as a highly practical work on translation theory and Sino-Japanese mutual translation techniques, is also available for reference and use by Japanese teachers, translators, and a broad range of amateur Japanese learners and enthusiasts. The materials for this book are primarily drawn from the author's published translations over the past 30 years.