It’s easy to produce bland, generic, insipid translations that more or less get the meaning across (properly referred to in the field as “flapdoodle”). But it’s also a risky proposition, because you’re sure to leave your reader cold and unimpressed. Not to mention that it’s no fun.
If you want to spark joy, showcase your human value, wow your clients, and enthral your readers, you need to dare to use colourful real-life words that turn heads and move hearts—just like professional writers do every day.
This 3-hour workshop for all into-English translators will have you working on gobbledygook to come up with cogent, inspired, incisive words that will elevate your texts to new heights.
With this training, say goodbye to run-of-the-mill translations and hello to crisp, lively, compelling prose that will delight your clients and strike a resounding chord with your readers.
Joachim Lépine, M. Ed., C. Tr. is a trainer and translator with more than 10 years of experience teaching translation and related topics to university students and working professionals. Some of his training clients have included OTTIAQ, Editors Canada, Magistrad, the Translation Bureau, and Training for Translators.
He is also the founder of the Regroupement des langagiers de l’Estrie and the owner Traductions LION, which offers French-to-English translation services as well as language, productivity, and communication workshops. He was Coordinator of the Continuing Education Committee for OTTIAQ, Canada’s largest organisation of language professionals, from 2013 to 2020.
Joachim holds a bachelor’s in fine arts from Concordia University, a bachelor’s in translation from Université de Sherbrooke, and a master’s in education from Plymouth State University.