Working with a practice partner

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, 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)

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Chapters

1. Working with a practice partner (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:02:09)

3. Coaches need a coach too! (00:03:04)

4. The rise of CPD (00:07:49)

5. Why do I have a practice partner? (00:12:02)

6. How can a practice partner help you? (00:16:37)

7. How I work with a partner (frequency, types of exercises) (00:25:44)

8. Clip from "organ donation" speech (English) (00:25:48)

9. Clip from my interpretation into French (B) (00:28:46)

10. Commentary on my version (00:30:06)

11. My practice partner's interpretation into French (A) (00:31:40)

12. Analysis of what I learned (00:35:34)

13. Where to find a practice partner (00:37:18)

14. When is it a good idea to work with a partner? (00:38:41)

15. Who should you work with? (00:42:43)

16. Outro (00:42:43)