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Use all the consecutive speeches for note-taking practice.

If you struggled with sections of a speech, read the transcript afterwards.

Use the caption function to check your understanding of a tricky speech.

fill in the glossary templates with your A language equivalents and learn the vocabulary.

Now, what can you do with all of this? The answer will partly depend on whether your English is a C or a B language. This is not the kind of material that you can only access for 6 months or a year you can dip in an out of the modules whenever you like – your access is permanent (as long as my website continues to exist!). Oh, a very important point: if you decide to purchase one of the modules, you will have indefinite, on demand access. We’ve tried hard to reflect a variety of viewpoints and accents in each module, and to cover the key terminology that you need to know in order to interpret successfully.

an Excel glossary template containing key terminology, vocabulary that comes up in the speeches, and any relevant idioms.

a ‘resources’ section with more suggestions for audio or video practice material and further background reading.

a note-taking exercise to practise note-taking technique or symbols.

The exercise might be a listening comprehension or some other exercise to practise analysis, for instance.

a listening exercise this could be based on one of the practice speeches, or a podcast or lecture.

a reading exercise (often, this is a reading comprehension), based on a relevant article or paper.

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Again, we give a brief introduction, some terminology, and often some guidance on how to tackle the speech – or a suggested focus. These could be panel debates, TED talks, interviews, lectures, etc. 3 carefully selected ‘real life’ speeches representing a variety of accents and viewpoints.You’ll also find a short introduction and some terminology that you can choose to research before tackling the speech, or to ignore if you’d rather tackle it without preparation.

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Each video is captioned and comes with a full transcript. 3 tailor-made practice speeches, prepared by yours truly, Catriona, and Kirsten, on the topic of the month.I thought it might be nice to give you an E4T taster, with a peek behind the scenes of several modules, along with some tips on how you can make the most of the content. We’ve had some great feedback about the materials (called E4T: English for Interpreters), which are intended to give you a helping hand with improving your English C (or B!) but we’ve also had questions about how to make the most of the materials, and what the content of the modules actually consists of.

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Or perhaps you can access plenty of suitable practice material, but you’re short of time and you’d like a shortcut.Ī few months ago, I launched a new series of modules focusing on English, along with my colleagues Catriona Howard and Kirsten Coope. Or maybe the multitude of different accents and variants of English you hear is stressful when you’re interpreting. Well…maybe you’re so used to hearing Globish at work that you struggle when Irish, British, American, Indian, or Kenyan speakers take the floor. English: an essential part of many interpreters’ language combinations.Īnd English is all around us, so it should be easy to maintain….right?