CITS Continues a Series of Professional Meetings with UN Translation and Terminology Experts

The final month of the year at CITS is full of events – not only for our students, but also for our trainers and staff members. A workshop by Grigori Tsoukanov, Senior Reviser at the Russian Translation Service of the UN Office in New York, was another important event of December. The event involved staff members of CITS and the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Astrakhan State University, including practicing translators and translation teachers.

At the online meeting, Grigori Tsoukanov shared both his knowledge in the sphere and his invaluable experience he’d gained while working for the UN Russian Translation Service. He gave examples on the main stylistic, terminological, grammatical and other mistakes made by translators. The workshop participants were given a number of sentences containing non-obvious mistakes to analyze them and find errors made in the text. The staff members of CITS and the Faculty of Foreign Languages also did an exercise on finding synonyms that are encountered in texts most of all, and even received a few tasks to complete at home.

It is the first time our school has worked with Grigori Tsoukanov, and we hope that classes with the UN expert will continue next year.