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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 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 in advance, and incorporating 4-5 phrases and one or two useful idioms
- watching a video or listening to a podcast, then giving an oral summary
- chatting about everyday stuff, e.g. an item you saw on the news
- role plays
- describing a picture, going from the more concrete to an abstract discussion
- listening to your tutor giving a rather informal speech, and turning it into a more formal register
gap filling exercises
Here's the link to my blog post (for interpreting students) about working constructively with a tutor.

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!
Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Why conversation classes or tuition are useful (00:02:37)

3. Why get a tutor rather than working by yourself? (00:12:06)

4. Disadvantages of a language tutor (00:15:42)

5. Possible exercises for language enhancement sessions (00:27:19)

6. Where to find a tutor? (00:39:05)