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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 target language, and marketing.

This episode is about interpreting numbers, something that many interpreters struggle with.


Here are some of the resources I mentioned:
- You can find out more about Giles' effort model here.
- My podcast episode about memory.
- My podcast episode about analysis.
- My podcast episode about being concise.
- Louise Jarvis's 5 tips for dealing with numbers.
- Anton Klevansky's app Numerizer.
- The Interpreter Practice Generator app.
- The BBC Scotland video about number recall.
- The Economist's World in Figures still exists!
- Anja Rütten's blog post about using SmarTerp.

Research:
- CAI Tool-Supported SI of Numbers: A Theoretical and Methodological Contribution by Francesca Frittella
- Numbers during simultaneous interpreting by Shanmugalingam, Pradheep (2018)
- Numbers in simultaneous interpretation by Cristina Mazza
- The whole picture: Processing of numbers and their context in simultaneous interpreting, Paweł Korpal and Katarzyna Stachowiak-Szymczak (2018)
- Simultaneous Interpretation of Numbers: Comparing German and English to Italian. Diletta Pinochi (2009)
- Fluency in rendering numbers in simultaneous interpreting, Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny, I. Ivaska, Adriano Ferraresi (2023)
- Numbers in simultaneous interpreting: an experimental study. Kay Fan Andrew Cheung, 2009

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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 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 target language, and marketing.

This episode is dedicated to linguistic interference.

Here are some of the exercises I suggest:
- in simultaneous, start every sentence in a different place from the original.
- try making your EVS (décalage) longer.
- practise sight translation, giving yourself time to think about whether the output sounds natural.
- do gap filling exercises (Cloze tests).
- in simultaneous, press pause after an idea, then reformulate it, looking for concise and natural formulations, as opposed to parroting.
- work on your target language (collocations, particularly).
- when you encounter a tricky word to translate, where it's tempting to use a calque (e.g. précarité in French), look it up and consider the various contexts in which it is used. How can you make sure you're expressing the idea, rather than translating the word?
- think about how speakers frame/introduce ideas in your source language(s). Can you think of good ways to render these introductory phrases in your target language?


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 info@theinterpretingcoach.com

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 target language, and marketing.

This episode is dedicated to one of my hobby horses: analytical skills.

I gave several examples from a French speech on the EU's Speech Repository. It's by Michael Picq (speech number 32840).

Here are some of the exercises I suggest:
- listen to a speech and enter the information in a 4-column table (links, main info, secondary, details)
- listen to a speech then write the outline (e.g. bullet points)
- work on summarising texts/speeches
- do a 'bare bones' simultaneous, just getting the main ideas across
- pick an interview, listen to the question and the first few words of the answer. See if you can anticipate what the speaker will say next.
- gap filling exercises (Cloze)
- listen to a speech in chunks and ask yourself questions: why is the speaker saying this? What are they likely to say next? Is this fact or opinion? What biases does the speaker have? etc.
- get a speech transcript and annotate it. You can write little notes based on your background knowledge, or link parts of the speech with arrows, or circle the logical connectors, etc.

I highly recommend the Listening & Analysis resource on the ORCIT website (orcit.eu) for more 'theory' and exercises to help with analysis.

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 info@theinterpretingcoach.com