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Free online resources for your foreign language training

22-Oct-2021

Mastering a foreign language and its legal terminology is important and should form part of the continuous training of legal practitioners. It is a precondition to effective contacts across Member States, which are in turn the cornerstone for judicial cooperation. It is essential that all stakeholders pay attention to training on legal terminology of foreign languages. There are many resources available online that are of great use to notaries.

The European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) provides a handbook, which is a compilation of the most relevant training materials used in EJTN courses on judicial cooperation in civil matters. Definitions, exercises and real-life case reviews make this handbook an invaluable practical resource:
https://www.ejtn.eu/MRDDocuments/Civil_Linguistics_Handbook_ENG_2016.pdf

The Academy of European Law provides an online training course “Legal English for Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters”:
https://www.era-comm.eu/interactive_language_training/e_learning/story_html5.html

Finally, on the European Commission's e-justice portal, you can find a linguistic manual “English for Mediation in Cross-Border Civil and Commercial Matters”. It is developed by Prof Eva Samaniego Fernández, including language exercises on legal terminology:
https://e-justice.europa.eu/european-training-platform/search-training-materials/english-mediation-cross-border-civil-and-commercial-matters_en
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