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The Complete Interpreter

By: Sophie Llewellyn Smith
  • Summary

  • A podcast to help spoken language conference interpreters or public service interpreters stand out in a competitive market by improving their skills, mindset, and marketing.

    © 2024 Sophie Llewellyn Smith
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Episodes
  • Improved mood and cognition: should you be eating 50 g of chocolate a day? 😁
    Mar 25 2024

    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.

    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 episode. That's because flavanols and flavonols and subclasses of flavonoids.]

    Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!

    Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

    Support the show

    My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
    Twitter: @terpcoach
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

    Or email me at info@theinterpretingcoach.com

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    37 mins
  • Exercises for early simultaneous
    Mar 18 2024

    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.

    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: a Student's Practice Book, as well as the fantastically useful interpretertrainingresources.eu

    You can find Robin Setton's article here, and Karla Déjean Le Féal's article here. I also mentioned Cyril Joyce's early sim exercise in this episode, and Roderick Jones's methodical approach to using consecutive as a basis for early simultaneous.

    And of course I suggested the ORCIT website, which contains useful material not only about simultaneous, but consecutive without notes, note-taking, and public speaking as well.

    Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!

    Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

    Support the show

    My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
    Twitter: @terpcoach
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

    Or email me at info@theinterpretingcoach.com

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    59 mins
  • Habituation: a tactic for reducing performance and exam stress
    Mar 11 2024

    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 why you should get used to exam stress 😉, or rather, how the habituation effect can attenuate your response to stress - and also, why habituation is sometimes a bad thing!

    Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!

    Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)



    Support the show

    My website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/
    Twitter: @terpcoach
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/

    Or email me at info@theinterpretingcoach.com

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    26 mins

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