The Complete Interpreter

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.

In this episode, I talk about New Year's Resolutions (or intentions, or goals...however you want to describe them) and how to make them stick.

The blog post that prompted this episode is by Nick Wignall. You can find it here.

And the German podcast recommended to me by Anja is called Betreutes Fühlen.

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!
 
Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

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Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just an interpreting or translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.

For this episode, I interviewed our colleague Sylvie Levi Roos about her long career, in which she worked as a French booth interpreter with two B languages. We had a long chat about how she developed and maintained two retour languages, and what her top tips are for retourists.

Many thanks to Sylvie for sharing her time and wisdom with listeners!

Here are some of the resources mentioned in the podcast:
- EbS (Europe by Satellite), European Union's TV information service
- Le Monde in English
- Journal Officiel de la République française
- TV5 Monde
- the podcast episode about memory


Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!

Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

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My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
Twitter: @terpcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

Or email me at [email protected]

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of language, and marketing.

This episode is more of a chat than anything else. Don't expect to learn a lot! I talk a bit about questions you can ask yourself to review the year, and think ahead to 2024. For example:

• What achievements are you most proud of?
• What lessons did you learn?
• Who made the biggest impact on you?
• What could you STOP doing in 2024?
• What brings you energy and joy, and how can you incorporate those things into your day?
• What are your learning/process goals for next year?

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!
 
Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

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My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
Twitter: @terpcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

Or email me at [email protected]

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.

In this episode, I talk about how visualisation can help you take fewer notes in consecutive in the following situations:

• when the speaker gives an explanation (especially about a familiar topic)
• when the speaker tells a story
• when the speaker says something personal.

If you'd like to look at the 'apple visualisation scale', click here.

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!
 
Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

Support the show

My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
Twitter: @terpcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

Or email me at [email protected]

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of language, and marketing.

In this episode, I talk about how I maintain and improve my retour skills by working with a practice partner.

Here are some of the resources that come up:
Podcast about the UN exams
Podcast about EU interinstitutional test
Podcast about preparing speeches in a B language
Speech Repository speech about organ donation

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!
 
Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

Support the show

My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
Twitter: @terpcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

Or email me at [email protected]

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just an interpreting or translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of language, and marketing.

In this episode, I talk about asking for feedback - not always an easy thing to do!

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!

Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

Support the show

My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
Twitter: @terpcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

Or email me at [email protected]

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just an interpreting or translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.

In this episode, I talk about dealing with slow speakers in simultaneous.

If you have French in your combination and you're interested in trying out the same speech I used, you can find it here. I tried the section between 02:35-08:13. Afterwards I thought it probably wasn't THAT slow! 😊

Here are some of the tricks and strategies I mentioned:

• slowing down your output!
• judicious use of fillers (e.g. Ladies and Gentlemen, NOT 'um', 'er', 'you know', 'like', 'I mean', etc.)
• repeating/paraphrasing something that's just been said
• allowing yourself to be very complete and explicit
• expanding phrases, e.g. 'economic or military in nature'
• using intonation/emphasis to make sure the shape of the sentence is still clear (i.e. the big picture)
• using rhetorical questions

And above all:

• don't be a parrot (in terms of copying the sentence structure of the original)
• use salami technique
• try to anticipate and use your background knowledge to make sense of the original
• where possible, communicate to the speakers that they don't need to speak excessively slowly

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!

Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

Support the show

My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
Twitter: @terpcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

Or email me at [email protected]

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.

In this episode, designed for English retourists, I go through some exercises and strategies to help you describe acts of violence, conflict, etc. in English.

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!
 
Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

Support the show

My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
Twitter: @terpcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

Or email me at [email protected]

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of language, and marketing.

In this episode, I talk about Latin words or phrases that are commonly used in English.

• ad hoc: for a particular purpose
• ad lib: improvise
• ad infinitum: for ever
• alma mater: your university
• alumnus/alumna: graduate of a particular university
• bona fide: in good faith, genuine
• carpe diem: seize the day
• a caveat: condition, objection
• de facto/de jure: in reality/in law
• deus ex machina: a plot device (in a play or book) to resolve an impossible problem
• ergo: therefore
• e.g. (exempli gratia = for example), i.e. (id est = in other words)
• etcetera
• in camera: behind closed doors
• in situ: on the spot
• mea culpa: it's my fault
• per capita: per person
• per diem: daily (e.g. daily allowance)
• persona non grata: an unwelcome person
• per se: in itself, specifically
• prima facie: at first sight
• quid pro quo: 'this for that', an exchange
• status quo: state of affairs
• verbatim: word for word
• vice versa: the other way round

Mens sana in corpore sano: a healthy mind in a healthy body
Pecunia not olet: money doesn't stink
Plenus venter non studet libenter: a full belly doesn't like studying!

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Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

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Support the show

My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
Twitter: @terpcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

Or email me at [email protected]

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just an interpreting or translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.

In this episode (which may only be of interest if you're really into linguistics), I talk about 'like' and 'so', two meaningless fillers...or are they? 😉

Apologies for the sound quality. I recorded this episode in a different place, and the sound is quite fuzzy.

By the way, if you want to see a map of bread 'rolls' (or barms, teacakes, stotties, or baps), click here.

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!

Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

Support the show

My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
Twitter: @terpcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

Or email me at [email protected]