Congratulations to all our Graduates!

The pilot session of the WritePoint Translation Course concluded this week and by all accounts the program was a fantastic success. The group was smart, motivated and talented and was a pleasure to teach. Now they are moving out of the "hothouse" and into the world of professional translation. About half of the class has already begun paid translation work and all are busy using all the tools and resources they gained in the course to build their new careers.

Right now, I'm busy editing and evaluating their final projects. In order to graduate from the course, each student must complete two real translation projects for real clients. Students have the option of choosing projects recruited by my company or finding clients for themselves (we discuss ways of finding clients extensively during the course).

Projects that the recent graduates completed included websites, academic papers, press releases, news and feature articles, book excerpts and PowerPoint presentations. The majority have produced translations of a very high standard, and their clients are very satisfied.

One student, who chose a project for a client she found herself, received the following response in an email:

"We received all the translations. You did a truly amazing job - perfect in all aspects. We appreciate your effort, professionalism, and efficiency very much... We will definitely be happy to work with you again and refer you to other people."

This does not surprise me that much. Last week I received an email from Adv. Michael Prawer, who taught the legal translations module, who had been reviewing some student assignments: "I must say that for non-lawyers (and even for lawyers) those whose work I have corrected did excellent jobs."

Congratulations to all the graduates. You all worked very hard and we had a great time.