Starting simultaneous? 5 bad habits to avoid

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just an interpreting or 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.

This episode is for those of you who have just begun simultaneous. There are a few habits or approaches that I think it's best NOT to fall into.  See if you agree!

1. too short a décalage
2. trying to say EVERYTHING
3. sticking exactly to the sentence structure and word order of the original
4. 'translating'
5. not having a pure client

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

Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 5:17 Common problems in simultaneous (esp. for retourists)
• 10:34 Bad habit 1: short décalage
• 16:00 Bad habit 2: trying to say everything
• 18:03 Bad habit 3: sticking to the SL sentence structure + word order
• 21:02 Bad habit 4: 'translating' the original
• 22:54 Bad habit 5: not having a pure client
• 28:11 Summary: be a swan, not a parrot
• 31:15 Images to help understand simultaneous
• 37:53 Outro