Technical Translation
Aims
Goal: explain your product's technology to a non-technical listener — one analogy carried through, outcomes with numbers, one defined term, zero buzzwords.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Speak human
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Technical Translation
Read a 241-word text about Technical Translation
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Technical Translation Vocabulary
8 items
- Reading10 min
Reading: A model answer: 'So how does it actually work?'
Read a 304-word text about A model answer: 'So how does it actually work?'
- Practice7 min
Practice: Practice: Making Technical Language Accessible
Error-correction exercise, 4 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Practice: plain-language tools
Gap-fill exercise, 6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Match the jargon to the human version
Matching exercise, 6 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Role Play: Explaining Tech to a Non-Technical Investor
Role-play: You're in a meeting with a non-technical investor who likes your market opportunity but needs to understand what your product actually does under the hood, explained in simple terms. (4 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: translate your own tech
3 discussion questions
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Target vocabulary
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