I've written quite a lot about speech preparation as a useful exercise, both for interpreters and for trainers. In this post, for example, I've talked about ...

I've spent twenty years helping interpreters improve their retour (at least I hope my techniques are helpful! 😉), but I'll let you into a little secret: ...

In my last blog post, I attempted to convince you of the value of speech prep, especially if you are a retourist and you use speech ...

I ran a webinar recently about improving your retour (i.e. interpreting into a B language - a language other than your mother tongue), and I asked ...

I'm sure you've been told at some point in your career as an interpreter (or when you were a student) that you should be more concise ...

Last Friday, I experimented with something new. I set up an online co-working session on Zoom, emailed my subscribers to let them know about it, and ...

English: an essential part of many interpreters' language combinations. And English is all around us, so it should be easy to maintain....right? Well...maybe you're so used ...

I'm first and foremost an interpreter and trainer, but some of you may know I have a background in fitness training and complementary therapies.This means I've ...

If you’re a fellow interpreter trainer and you’ve dipped your toes into the online training waters, it probably won’t have taken you long to realise that ...

CPD = lifelong learning So, you've just taken your final year interpreting exams, and you're looking forward (hmm...) to entering the brave new world of post-coronavirus ...

I was teaching a class at the University of Manchester yesterday, and listening to the interpreting students tackle a piece of rapid, 'real-life' French reminded me ...

Time management in the modern world Nowadays, everybody's busy busy busy! We're all juggling multiple assignments, jobs, devices, apps, websites, passwords...It's exhausting sometimes. And I'll admit ...

Disclaimer Like many website owners, I have a set of terms and conditions that insist that my content is for information purposes only, and exhort readers ...

Mind/body techniques for concentration and stress relief Last week, I was at the London Language Show demonstrating simple techniques to help interpreters and translators beat stress, ...

Are you great at dealing with technical jargon in simultaneous? Are you bad with numbers? Are your notes sloppy? Do you have a bad memory? These ...

I hesitated about the title of this blog post for a long time. Not least because it sounds as if I'm writing about shoes. At first, ...

Back to school, back to stress Here in Europe, the summer holidays are drawing to a close. How are you feeling? Do you find the rentrée, ...

'What do you do to develop your retour?' I sometimes ask my interpreting students this question. I'm curious to know what they do with their limited time ...

Unless you've been living in a parallel universe for the past few weeks, you will know what the big event is this Sunday: the World Cup ...

In any situation in life where you want to excel, it makes sense to work to your strengths and find ways to compensate for your weaknesses ...

In my last post, I talked about the benefits of having a native speaker of your B language listen to you when you're practising your retour. Today, I ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged (as Jane Austen might say) that improving your retour is a lifelong task. Like any other interpreting skill - only more ...

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates I've been an interpreter trainer for fifteen years, and I can pass on ...

How can I serve you? For some years now, I've been thinking: Wouldn't it be great if there were more digital content to help aspiring interpreters? ...