How to learn simultaneous interpreting - suggestions needed

Wolf Kux wrote:

First, purchase a headphone with a microphone;
Second, try to get image & sound from a news TV on your PC (e.g. Al-Jazeera english, DWelle, CNN, etc.);
Third, listening news on your headphones, spell them to your microphone on your target language. If possible get your voice written over an audio file.

After your exercised so, try to hear the same image & sound, but now listening your audio file accordingly.

You could hear all your mistakes, and imagine a strategy to avoid the same errors in future!!

Remember, that an interpreter always makes some mistakes, and correct them only if absolutely needed, if not, forget the mistake, and go ahead.

On soccer games, the defense players should never fail to take the ball away from player of the other team, but the front players (like Ronaldinho, Maradona, and others) are forgiven for their mistakes on not to shot inside goal.

An interpreter is something like a front soccer player. Sometimes his/her mistakes are also forgiven. If you could interpret correctly about 70-80% of all spelled sentences, it could be considered a good interpreter.

HTH



[Editada em 2011-09-03 23:05 GMT]

[Editada em 2011-09-03 23:06 GMT]

Joanna Spychala wrote:

I would start by interpreting very simple speeches and then gradually increase the level of difficulty. I believe this method is used in most interpreting schools and it has definitely worked for me.

At this stage, speeches prepared for training purposes are the best interpreting material. Try e.g. http://speechpool.net and http://live.fti.unige.ch (of course, not all the speeches there are suitable for beginners).

You can also ask your friends to make speeches for you: don't start with specialist topics or politics but with your friends' stories about funny situations or summer trips. You shouldn't think in terms of 'sentences' - instead of this, just try to convey the meaning, to re-tell a story.

If you want to practice shadowing in your native language - do not reproduce sentences word by word but repeat what you've just heard in your own words (even if this means you will lose some information on the way).

I also highly recommend to read (and use) tips from "Conference Interpreting: A Student’s Practice Book" by Andrew Gillies (http://aiic.net/page/6626/book-review-conference-interpreting-a-student-s-practice-book-by-andrew-gillies/lang/1).

[Edited at 2014-04-24 18:54 GMT]

Joanna Spychala wrote:

I can't really comment on that as I do not really have any DPSI experience. However, I would try to look for some real 'speeches' (where one person speaks for at least 5 minutes without being interrupted) - this way you can quite easily improve your general technique and learn how to process source text in simultaneous interpretation. Quick role-changing as in a dialogue might actually be more challenging than that. But then again, I am looking at the whole thing from the point of view of a conference interpreter, and not a public service interpreter. Still, I think it might be easier to focus on the target-oriented preparation for DPSI when you get some solid basics of simultaneous interpretation first.

[Edited at 2014-04-25 15:33 GMT]