Consecutive Interpreting (Translation Practices Explained)

Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course provides a step-by-step guide to consecutive interpreting. This user-friendly coursebook tackles key skills such as presentation, analysis, note-taking and reformulation, as well as advanced market-related skills such as preparation for assignments, protocol and practical tips for working interpreters. Each chapter provides examples of the skill, as well as a variety of exercises to learn the skill both in isolation and then in combination with other skills.

Including model answers, a glossary of terms and further reading suggestions, this is the essential coursebook for all students of consecutive interpreting as well as for interpreter-trainers looking for innovative ways of teaching consecutive interpreting.

Andrew Gillies has worked as a freelance conference interpreter for more than 20 years. He works from French, German and Polish into English at a number of EU and European institutions as well as for private clients. He has a background in Teaching English as a foreign language and when not conference interpreting has trained conference interpreters at numerous universities around Europe as well as at for the European Parliament and the International Association of Conference Interpreters. 
He is the author of several books, including Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreting (2017), and also created the Interpreter Training Resources website.
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