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Note taking

• NGUYEN QUY TAM
• Translators Interpreters Training Division
• English Department
• Hanoi University of Foreign Studies

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• International Conference
• at
• Dublin City University, Ireland
• 10th 14th January 2005
• Presentation by
• Nguyen Quy Tam

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• Three types of taking notes
• Reading taking notes
• Listening taking notes
• Interpreters taking notes

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• How much?
• as much as you can?

University students Translator-background

• or just essentials

Interpreters Consecutive or Simultaneous.
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People who love symbols, figures, abbrev.,
spaces, arrows, lines, anything that makes
sense to them!

• Text lovers

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• Listen to a talk on mobile phone and take note

audio tape is played
Look at your notes and tell the class as much as
you can about the talk
note are compared
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• I would like to speak to you to day on the
  subject of communication. I met up yesterday with
  some old friends and while I was having dinner
  with them - there was five of them - at least two
  of them were interrupted during the course of the
  dinner to answer their mobile phones.

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Notes

• 1. are products of comprehension

• 2. are supplementary, not replacing memory

• 3. are visual aids, not text aids

• 4. connect to what interpreters know,
  experienced, heard, seen, .

• 5. connect to what interpreters studied, or
  researched on the subject matters.

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Notes
6. are an inventive set of anything that takes
minimal time but carries maximal meaning to
interpreters

• 7. should not at all be governed by language rules

• 8. are visual aids, not text aids

• 9. are individual, not universial

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Why ?

• to support memory

What ?
message(s) / specific info
When ?
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• I would like to speak to you to day on the
  subject of communication. I met up yesterday with
  some old friends and while I was having dinner
  with them, they were 5 in number, at least 2 of
  them were interrupted during the course of the
  dinner to answer their mobile phones.

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• Now, I took this for granted. It didnt upset
  me particularly and the friends concerned
  apologized and kept the phone calls to the
  minimum but I said to myself what on earth we did
  before we have mobile phones. And it is not that
  long ago.

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• I remember in the old days, especially in
  Italy, a country much given to telephoning that
  you had to get tokens which you then put into the
  slot in the public telephone booth and you had to
  have a collection of tokens sufficiently large to
  keep your phone call going for the duration you
  wished. Very often the line broke down too, and
  the sometimes the token didnt fall through.

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• I remember in England we had a similar system
  where we would put pennies in the slot and then
  pressed Button A or Button B.
• It was all very different and the communication
  of course was probably more complicated that we
  tended to keep telephoning to a minimum. And it
  was also very expensive, but not at all nowadays.

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• I wonder to myself also is this really
  progress. Are we making progress in communication
  because we all communicate nonstop by phone, by
  email, whatever? I began to wonder if we havent
  actually become slaves to these telephones. It
  means that you can no longer get away from
  anyone. As long as you have your mobile phone on,
  people will find you wherever you are.

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• The other point about mobile phones which I
  would like to mention is that they are very
  probably quite dangerous to our health as well. I
  dont know if you have heard about some recent
  court cases, one particularly in the United
  States. I believe the case was against Nokia for
  brain damage possibly caused by the use of, or
  excessive use of mobile phone. So that is another
  aspect to bear in mind as you plough on
  telephoning each other days nights.

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• And then when I think to myself that now when
  communication is made easy now by the use of
  mobile phone, I also found myself coming home in
  the evening, having switched off the phone
  because I was giving speeches or at the meetings,
  finding myself with 10 news messages. My heart
  sink I have to say. And then I really do wonder
  once youve got the mobile phone, you will never
  get rid of it.

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• When ?

• as soon as interpreters get hold of the message/s

But how ?
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• Short term memory usually works on the
  combination of
• 1. graphics visualized
• 2. items listed
• 3. charts visualized
• 4. logical linkages visualized
• 5. background knowledge retrieved

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• Listen to what another senior interpreter
  says about note taking
• audio text plays

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• Listen to another senior interpreter talking
  about dealing with numbers in note taking.
• audio text plays

In note taking Numbers Units of measurement
Information
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• FIRST VIEWING DVD clip plays
• Notice how the interpreter works with his notes

SECOND VIEWING DVD clip plays

• Notice how the interpreter

1. starts his notes
2. works with his papers

• 3. uses his notes when giving his
  interpretation

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• How to practice note taking ?

• 4. With spoken texts in Target Language

3. With written texts in Target Language

• 2. With spoken texts in your mother tongue

• 1. With written texts in your mother tongue

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• Thank you for your attention.
• Any questions ?