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The Complete InterpreterThe worst mistakes made by interpreter trainersSupport the showHi! 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 for interpreter trainers.I've tried to think about which approaches I think are successful in the classroom, and which are likely to yield less good results:2025-07-1438 minThe Complete InterpreterRetourists, don't make these mistakes!Support the showHi! 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 interpreters who work into a B language ('retourists').Based on my experience of coaching retourists, I've drawn up a list of approaches that I think...2025-07-0727 minThe Complete InterpreterHow to create a stress management strategy for an examHi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.Sign up for my workshop to create an action plan for the EU testSupport the showWhy '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 creating a stress management strategy ahead of an important exam, e...2025-05-0548 minThe Complete InterpreterHow to be a great relay (long version)Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.Support the showSign up for my workshop on salami technique, 8th May 2025 6.30 pm (UK)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 relay: what annoys you when you're taking relay, what you find helpful, and your...2025-04-281h 22The Complete InterpreterHow to be a great relay in simultaneousHi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.Support the showSign up for my workshop on salami technique, 8th May 2025 6.30 pm (UK)This episode is about relay: what annoys you when you're taking relay, what you find helpful, and your tips for being a good relay for other interpreters.There's a longer version of this podcast if you're still thirsty for more. It covers the same content, but with more thoughts, stories, explanations...and echoey sound! You can find the longer version here.T...2025-04-2852 minThe Complete InterpreterApproaches to tackling impostor syndromeHi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.Support the showWhy '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 impostor syndrome.Here are some of the approaches I suggest (I've added chapter markers to help you navigate):OBJECTIVE METHODS to...2025-02-1748 minThe Complete InterpreterDealing with numbersSupport the showHi! 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...2024-11-251h 04The Complete InterpreterLanguage interference when interpretingHi! 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...2024-10-2127 minThe Complete InterpreterWorking on analytical skillsHi! 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...2024-10-0748 minThe Complete InterpreterApproaches to interpreting from SOV>SVO (e.g. Japanese>English)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.In this episode, I talk about the strategies you might consider when interpreting from a language with a Subject-Object-Verb word order (e.g. Japanese) into a language with a Subject-Verb-Object order.Look out for a...2024-09-2332 minThe Complete InterpreterHow to get the best out of a language tutor to improve your retourHi! 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.In this episode, I talk about how conversation classes or 'language enhancement' can help you improve your B language, and the sorts of exercises you could do with your tutor, e.g. :- preparing a speech...2024-09-0941 minThe Complete InterpreterIntroverts and energy levelsHi! 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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.For this episode, I was curious to learn whether introverts are more affected by Zoom fatigue than extroverts, and how introverts can recharge their batteries when they're feeling drained.Do you find it difficult to transition between a 'draining' activity...2024-06-1116 minThe Complete InterpreterImproved mood and cognition: should you be eating 50 g of chocolate a day? đHi! 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.With Easter just around the corner, this is a lighthearted episode investigating whether chocolate can improve your mood and cognitive function.[You may notice that I use the terms 'flavanols' and 'flavonoids' interchangeably in this...2024-03-2537 minThe Complete InterpreterExercises for early simultaneousHi! 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 devoted to a discussion of exercises that can be useful in the 'early simultaneous stage' - particularly for improving split attention.A bit shoutout to Andy Gillies and his book Conference Interpreting...2024-03-1859 minThe Complete InterpreterHabituation: a tactic for reducing performance and exam stressHi! 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 why you should get used to exam stress đ, or rather, how the habituation effect can attenuate your response to stress - and also, why habituation is sometimes a bad thing!Let...2024-03-1126 minThe Complete InterpreterExploring collocations to improve your B languageHi! 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 collocations: identifying them, exploring them, and practising using them. Collocations can make you sound more natural in the target language, and if you get them wrong, can mark you out as a...2024-03-0435 minThe Complete InterpreterIs your practice lazy or deliberate?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 deliberate practice: what it is and how to do it!Here's the link to the paper by Elisabet Tiselius, titled 'Deliberate Practice: the Unicorn of Interpreting Studies'.Andy Gillies's book, containing...2024-02-2650 minThe Complete InterpreterInterpreting a speaker with a strong accentHi! 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.In this episode, I talk about speakers with strong accents.This is a subject I love, and so I may have become a bit carried away and shared lots of anecdotes (or....what some people may...2024-02-1948 minThe Complete InterpreterHow to eat for energy!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 you can tweak your diet to keep your energy levels high and avoid the dreaded post-lunch slump! I also discuss the importance of avoiding blood sugar spikes and troughs.Let me know...2024-02-1231 minThe Complete InterpreterStarting simultaneous? 5 bad habits to avoidHi! 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.This episode is for those of you who have just begun simultaneous. There are a few habits or approaches that I think it's best NOT to fall into. See if you agree!1. too short a...2024-02-0538 minThe Complete InterpreterHow to overcome your lizard brainHi! 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.Have you ever been in a stressful situation and felt completely frozen, or panicky? Panic is not a helpful reaction when you're in the booth and you need to be thinking clearly so as to analyse the speaker's message and convey...2024-01-2932 minThe Complete InterpreterOne (sim) interpreter, several speakers: letting the audience know a new speaker is beginningHi! 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 you can let the audience know a new speaker has begun talking (in simultaneous). Here are some ideas:say 'Question' and 'Answer' if it's an interview in that formatUse the...2024-01-2222 minThe Complete InterpreterHow to set goals that stick in 2024Hi! 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...2024-01-1531 minThe Complete InterpreterAn A and two Bs: an interview with Sylvie Levi Roos about retours and moreHi! 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...2023-12-181h 13The Complete InterpreterSome end of year thoughtsHi! 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...2023-12-1119 minThe Complete InterpreterHow visualisation can help your consecutiveHi! 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 storywhen the speaker says...2023-12-0423 minThe Complete InterpreterWorking with a practice partnerHi! 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...2023-11-2744 minThe Complete InterpreterAsking for feedbackHi! 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...2023-11-2048 minThe Complete InterpreterDealing with slow speakersHi! 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...2023-11-1321 minThe Complete InterpreterTalking about acts of violence (a vocabulary-building podcast for English retourists)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 (a...2023-11-0617 minThe Complete InterpreterSapientia potentia est: a few useful Latin phrases for youHi! 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 purposead lib: improvisead infinitum: for everalma mater: your universityalumnus/alumna: graduate of a particular universitybona fide...2023-10-3029 minThe Complete InterpreterSo...should you, like, avoid saying 'so' and 'like'?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? đApologies for the sound quality. I recorded this episode in a dif...2023-10-2327 minThe Complete InterpreterWhy you should continue doing consec without notes (even if you hate it!)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 why consecutive without notes is a useful exercise, even if you graduated ages ago.Here are some of the benefits:- warm-up/firing up your neurones- activating relevant vocabulary...2023-10-1619 minThe Complete InterpreterThoughts about preparing for the EU accreditation test (part 3)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.This episode is all about the EU accreditation test for freelance interpreters. I've shared some thoughts about how to be well prepared on the day, and also how to plan your 'campaign' when you sign up for the test.2023-10-0956 minThe Complete Interpreter'Ums' and 'ers' in interpreting - can they be eliminated?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 the dreaded 'ums' and 'ers' that can interrupt the flow of our interpreting.Quick summary:To increase your awareness of 'ums'record yourself audio/videoget a friend to...2023-10-0218 minThe Complete InterpreterTwo fun tricks for working on your retourHi! 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 two fun ways to work on your retour that didn't exist when I last worked intensively on mine, ten years ago.These are:Sight 'translation' (interpretation, really) using DeepL or...2023-09-2521 minThe Complete InterpreterTips for keeping your memory in top shapeHi! 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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.This episode is all about memory!To improve your long term memory and recall of facts and vocab:- create mental images, using all your senses- create a mental image or story using rhymes, humour, or something...2023-07-2436 minThe Complete InterpreterEU accreditation test for freelances: hints and tips from successful candidates (part 2)Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.For this episode, I interviewed five freelance interpreters who have recently taken (and passed!) the EU interinstitutional accreditation test.A big thank you to Andrea Alvisi, Gavin Darroch, Jonathan McGregor, Charlotte Ford, and Raquel Jones.They share lots of information and tips about :- the format of the exam- the difficulty of the speeches- facing the panel!- how long they spent preparing for the test- what sort of activities they did to prepare2023-07-171h 28The Complete InterpreterEverything you always wanted to know about the EU interinstitutional accreditation testHi! 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.This episode is all about the EU accreditation test for freelance interpreters.I'd like to thank Cathy Pearson for graciously agreeing to give up so much of her time to be interviewed for the show, as well...2023-07-101h 53The Complete InterpreterThe cycle of change - creating lasting habitsHi! 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 a relatively simple model that can help you visualise the process of change (e.g. creating a healthy habit, or trying to quit an unhealthy one).The model is based on work by...2023-07-0328 minThe Complete InterpreterSpeech preparation to improve your retour? Who has time for that?!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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.In this episode, I talk about the many benefits of preparing practice speeches in your B language:discovering, activating, and retaining terminology and whole chunks of idiomatic languagepractising and improving your pronunciation and intonationif you're working from a bullet...2023-06-2621 minThe Complete InterpreterImprove your performance with self-affirmation techniquesHi! 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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.In this episode, I talk about how a simple mindset technique can help improve your performance (in exams, or in the booth, for example).One of my students actually tried this before her final interpreting exams a few years ago...2023-06-1905 minThe Complete InterpreterEchoic memory and how you use it when interpretingHi! 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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.In this episode, I talk about 'echoic memory' (your memory of the sounds you hear): how it works, whether you can improve it, and how some interpreters use it to give a more complete rendition in simultaneous.By the way...2023-06-1231 minThe Complete InterpreterEverything you always wanted to know about the UN interpreting examsHi! 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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.This episode is all about the UN interpreting exams, both freelance (GLR or Global Language Roster) and staff (CELP).I couldn't have produced the episode without the assistance of many colleagues, including UN examiners Gillian Curry and Alice Ryckmans, Zilin Cui...2023-06-052h 27The Complete InterpreterBad day in the booth? How to 'let go' of mistakesHi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.This episode is about making mistakes and learning to move on from them. It was inspired by Stefano, who wrote: "I wonder if you could consider the topic of "Managing bad performance or errors". Let me give you an example. Yesterday I hesitated during the translation of an interview on TV. It was nothing major. Still, I could not sleep last night. What can I do?"It's really important to understand whether your mistake(s) affect your client to the point where you n...2023-05-2952 minThe Complete InterpreterImproving formal register in a B language, part 3 (activation)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.Before we get any further: this is episode 3 of 3 on this particular subject, so please listen to episodes 1 and 2, if you haven't done so already.In this episode, I talk about activating formal vocabulary in your B language.2023-05-2219 minThe Complete InterpreterRusty retour? How to refresh your work > BHi! 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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.In this episode, I discuss some approaches to refreshing your retour skills.Here are some approaches:â˘Immersion (or at least, getting in âthe zoneâ)â˘Activation â practising constructivelyâ˘Reflection â donât practise randomly; reflect on your progressâ˘Consistenc...2023-05-1521 minThe Complete InterpreterExercises to improve formal register in a B language, part 2 (vocabulary-building)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.Before we get any further: this is episode 2 of 3 on this particular subject, so please listen to episode 1, if you haven't done so already.In this episode, I talk about vocabulary-building to improve the formal register of your...2023-05-0824 minThe Complete InterpreterSalami technique vs short dĂŠcalage in retourHi! 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 two strategies for simultaneous: salami technique (also known as segmentation or 'chunking') and keeping a short dĂŠcalage to try to avoid omissions.Both of these can be successful techniques for retourists (although I...2023-05-0134 minThe Complete InterpreterUsing generic terms to improve your retourHi! 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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.This episode is all about generic terms, i.e. words that describe a type, category, or class of thing.Another way of looking at it is that this episode is all about different ways to say 'thing'!To increase...2023-04-2414 minThe Complete InterpreterExercises for improving your formal register in a B language (pt 1, awareness-raising)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'm focusing on improving your formal register (in a B language, in particular).To me, this involves:increasing your awareness of formal vs informal registerVocabulary-buildingActivating your shiny new formal vocabulary!To improve your sensitivity...2023-04-1720 minThe Complete InterpreterHow to be clearer in simultaneousHi! 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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.In this episode, I talk about what it means to interpret 'clearly' (in simultaneous, mostly, although many of the principles apply to consecutive as well).Here's a quick summary.To me, 'clarity' involves both acoustic clarity (the audience needs...2023-04-1029 minThe Complete InterpreterYou say tomato...American English vs British English terms that could confuse (or amuse)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 a few expressions whose different meanings in American English and British English could give rise to confusion.There is of course no one accent or variant of English that is 'superior' to another...2023-04-0319 minThe Complete InterpreterTips for avoiding procrastinationHi! 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 go through a series of techniques that can help you avoid procrastination, depending on your REASON for putting off the task you need to do:- if the task seems too BIG, think about setting clearer...2023-03-2724 minThe Complete InterpreterBeing concise in simultaneousHi! 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 share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.In this episode, I talk about being concise: what's the point? How can you reduce your word count (and is that REALLY what's important?).Here a summary of my suggestions:Cut out repetition and redundancyAvoid fillers, hesitations and qualifiers...2023-03-2018 min