Date:
Jul 16, 2011
Time:
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

J-E Translation Workshop: Fiendishly Difficult Sentences
Speaker: Richard Walker

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2011
Time: 14:00-17:00
Place: Forum 8, Shibuya (http://www.forum-8.co.jp/access/index.html)
Address: Dogenzaka 2-10-17, Shibuya, Tokyo
Phone: 03-3780-0008
Cost: JAT members free, Non-members 1,000 yen (advance registration not necessary)
Koryukai: Time: 5:15-7:30 pm Cost: 2000 yen (food only/cash bar)
The Aldgate British Pub (http://www.the-aldgate.com/)
Sign up at the meeting, or let us know in advance.
Inquiries to: [email protected]

Outline
This will be a hands-on J-E workshop about how to tackle long, convoluted, messy
sentences in Japanese, the kind that stop you dead in your tracks and
motivate you to update your Facebook status instead. We will look at
strategies to more efficiently parse them, and also at ways to turn them
into serviceable English. The first part of the workshop will be a short
discussion of some techniques that the presenter finds useful, after which
we will break into smaller groups to learn how other people approach the
task. Attendees are invited to submit examples of real-life sentences
they’ve encountered for use as samples during the workshop (please remove
any information that would identify the source or breach confidentiality)
to: [email protected].

Speaker Profile
Richard Walker has been translating professionally since 1988 and is the
sole proprietor of Praxis, Inc. in Yokohama. His specialties are in finance,
law and business. He is a past director of JAT and has given presentations
on the use of voice recognition in translation at Project Tokyo, IJET and
for the JTF.