Working with a practice partner

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 how I maintain and improve my retour skills by working with a practice partner.

Here are some of the resources that come up:
Podcast about the UN exams
Podcast about EU interinstitutional test
Podcast about preparing speeches in a B language
Speech Repository speech about organ donation

Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next!
 
Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

Chapters

• 2:09 Intro
• 3:04 Coaches need a coach too!
• 7:49 The rise of CPD
• 12:02 Why do I have a practice partner?
• 16:37 How can a practice partner help you?
• 25:44 How I work with a partner (frequency, types of exercises)
• 25:48 Clip from "organ donation" speech (English)
• 28:46 Clip from my interpretation into French (B)
• 30:06 Commentary on my version
• 31:40 My practice partner's interpretation into French (A)
• 35:34 Analysis of what I learned
• 37:18 Where to find a practice partner
• 38:41 When is it a good idea to work with a partner?
• 42:43 Who should you work with?
• 42:43 Outro