theinterpretingcoach

Sophie Llewellyn Smith is a conference interpreter with 15 years' experience of interpreter training. On her site theinterpretingcoach.com, you will find eBooks and eCourses to help you consolidate or update your interpreting skills in areas such as note-taking, research skills, analytical skills, and retour interpreting (working into a B language). Each course breaks the skills down into manageable sections and uses a mixture of text, audio and video to examine underlying principles and work on practical exercises. In this way, you can use self-study at your own pace to target your weaknesses, improve your performance and become more marketable.

The tampon tax in the UK

19th February 2020 by theinterpretingcoach

UK elections on 15th October

19th February 2020 by theinterpretingcoach

This could be used as a difficult, fast consecutive, a simultaneous, or even a consecutive without notes (if you are familiar with the political backdrop). It’s quite idiomatic in places, tricky to understand if you don’t have the right background knowledge, and will go out of date very quickly.

Community midwives in the UK

19th February 2020 by theinterpretingcoach

England’s birth rate has fallen to a record low

19th February 2020 by theinterpretingcoach

Packed lunches are not an unconditional right in Italy

19th February 2020 by theinterpretingcoach

5 minute speech about packed lunches, and whether schoolchildren in Italy should be allowed to bring them in, rather than eating canteen food. Apologies, at one point in the speech I referred to a ‘packed school dinner’ when I clearly meant ‘packed lunch’.

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