A Great Journey

An internship is a great opportunity for university students to acquire precious knowledge and experiences in their majors. During the internship period, I worked with a lot of talented people and learned a massive amount of new things from them. I and my colleagues worked together as a team to translate a specialized book which, in my opinion, causes a lot of problems as it relates to a whole new field. We needed to read a wide range of related papers and search for proper information in order to understand thoroughly and translate correctly. On this occasion, I figured out that subjects that I was taught in my faculty were extremely helpful. They provide me with the core knowledge which assists me a lot in comprehending new information or complex structures of the texts as research papers are written neatly and contain many difficult and complex sentences.

Along the way, we also received a lot of information and knowledge from other people, especially from our lecturer, Mr.Tin. Thanks to his help, we could understand all the difficult terms and translate things that we have never seen before. Moreover, as we worked as a team, I learned and refined my teamwork skill a lot. In order to work effectively, we tried to build our own working system. We did all the drafts individually and then we revised them many times and fixed whenever there were mistakes before making them the final versions. Following a system like this actually helps us to keep up with the workload and give out our best-translated versions. Also, by the team working, I learned a lot from my colleagues. I could understand the texts in different views and discuss it with my team to come to an agreement. Furthermore, we had opportunities to expose to many ideas and writing styles which will be extremely helpful in our translating careers. After 2 months of internship, personally, I learned more than I had ever expected.

Ho Thanh Mai