Consecutive note-taking
How best to avoid the potential pit-falls of poor note-taking. Dick, formerly organiser of EU Commission interpreter training course and subsequently trainer of trainers, tells us. Dick, antiguo...
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Zooming in on Mary’s notes for a better appreciation of the difficulty of top-quality consecutive interpretation. Nos acercamos a las notas de Mary para apreciar la dificultad de una interpretación...
View ArticleA consecutive demo: los locávoros
THE MAKING OF: Gemma and I are both interpreters and we were asked to do a speech and consecutive for you to show you just one example of how an interpreter’s consecutive notes are used to convey a...
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Consec Test Speech: Boudica A consecutive demo: Boudica Test speech analysis: Boudica Note-taking in consecutive interpreting. On the reconstruction of an individualised language. Kurt Kohn &...
View ArticleWhy consecutive learning is important?
“Although I’m retired from the Commission now I still do a bit of training now and again and I sometimes get asked why students of conference interpreting on university interpretation courses spend so...
View ArticleAnalysis exercises for consecutive interpreting
‘Analysis’ is often cited as one of the most important skills in consecutive interpreting but it’s one that is less often practised in isolation. In this film Andrew Gillies suggests 3 exercises aimed...
View ArticleSymbols: dos and don’ts
When note-taking for consecutive interpreting is mentioned the first thing that student interpreters ask about are symbols. And although it is true that knowing a reasonable number of very useful...
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