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Priya's Thursday, Two Ways

9 lessons · 24 prompts

A day in the life of a Translator: what changes with these prompts.

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Priya, a legal and medical translator working from German into English.

Priya starts Thursday with a long contract in German and a client who wants it by Monday. Normally she would read the whole thing twice before typing a word. This time she opens Claude, pastes the first section, and asks for a plain first-pass draft with a note on any unclear phrases.

The draft is rough, but it gives her a shape to work with. She flags two sentences that do not make sense in the source, then uses the reading-the-source prompt to ask what the German might mean in context. That saves her a call to the client.

After lunch, she builds a glossary for the contract's recurring terms using the terminology prompt. She checks each entry against her usual legal references, then moves to a short medical leaflet that needs a cultural adaptation for UK readers.

By four o'clock, she has a clean draft of the contract section and a leaflet that reads like it was written in English. She uses the time she won back to take her daughter to swimming lessons, something she usually misses on deadline weeks.

Before

  • Blank page, blinking cursor, deadline close.
  • Term searches eat the afternoon.
  • Client calls for one unclear word.
  • Weekends spent catching up.

After this course

  • A rough draft waiting to be edited.
  • Glossary built before the first coffee.
  • Questions answered in the source text.
  • Swimming lessons on a Thursday.

What you'll learn

  • First-Pass Drafts: Get a rough AI draft you can edit, so you start from a version instead of a blank page.
  • Reading the Source: Untangle confusing source passages before you commit to a translation.
  • Terminology Lists: Research terms and build a consistent glossary for a project.
  • Polishing Your Draft: Catch accuracy and fluency problems in your own draft before delivery.
  • Cultural Adaptation: Make content feel native to the target audience instead of translated.
  • Interpreting Prep: Prepare vocabulary and phrasing before a live interpreting assignment.
  • Specialized Texts: Work through legal, medical, and technical wording with more control.
  • Consistency and Review: Keep long or shared projects consistent and review another translator's work.

How this course works

  1. 9 lessonsOne task of your job each, from first-pass draft translation to client and project admin.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.