I have really enjoyed taking the course, Translation in Practice. The lectures of Professor Yuan Yao have been well organized and carefully written; the examples are generally interesting and inspiring; and our assignments are always challenging. The only drawback in the course is that we have never got a chance to read any model answers of the assignments. Some of the questions we have encountered will stay unknown after the completion of the course. In addition, the grading system needs revision as the existing one cannot cover all levels of work submitted, especially when there were one or more students who failed to provide any of their work and who deserved nothing, but not a 60 % grade mark.

the issue with this peer graded course is that it's quite annoying to wait for grading,and the forum comments in the discussion are usually posted by others thoughtlessly, which makes the discussion points pointless to read because they aren't moderated. The assignments are pretty intense, actually, so actually requires quite a hgh level of proficiency in English and Chinese. Otherwise the course theories and techniques are well designed and a lot of effort is put into it. if one is already proficient in both English and Chinese, then it is a very good course if one puts in the efort

The courses are curated with planned introductions for each unit and sections, and Ms.Yao tries very hard to complement it with related examples and practices,.

However, it can be better to expand the scope and the diversity of practice modules by adding some political, socioeconomic or entertainment & cultural materials to them.

The course is great with many materials, especially the examples, they are easy to understand. I learned so much from the course. I also speak Chinese, so the course is appropriate for me, but I think with people who don't speak Chinese, it will be a little hard to understand all the examples.

Good video content to get a basic idea of what translating is about. Though I can't really fault a free course for it, it is unfortunate that for a non-Chinese speaker a lot of the nuance and meaning is actually 'lost in translation'.

Useful knowledge however, it would be better if chinese was mentioned in the title of the course. It is misleading. I would not have chosen this course if it was mentioned in the title for I do not speak chinese.

Chinese English translation is not the only one I wish., but I wish they would teach me to translate by paraphrasing English words instead. other than that, it's a good course.

In the syllabus of the course is not clear that the focus is Chinese-English translation, I think this information could be more clear before signing up for the course.

Thanks to those who reviewed my assignments.

Many thanks to the instructor who prepared this wonderful course for us.

It would be great if the assignments are graded by professors.

This course is exciting and very instructive .

It is a very educational course.

While I learnt from the video lectures good strategies to improve my translations, I feel that some of the assignments do not necessarily reinforce the ideas. And peer review without comments doesn't really help us improve our translations much.

In-depth and explained in detail. Could be even better if materials in a more diverse format, e.g. readings, photos, tables, are provided.

it was a great experience so far