Skills in Interpretation--

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• Skills in Interpretation--
• I. Figure Interpreting

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• Figure Interpreting
• Report on the Work of the Government
  
• Delivered
  by Premier Wen Jiabao, on March 5, 2007

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Figure Interpreting

• 2006???????3.93???,?????7694??
• In 2006, National revenue reached 3.93 trillion
  yuan, a year-on-year increase of 769. 4 billion
  yuan.

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Figure Interpreting

• 2001??????????5098???,?1998??4.6??
• In 2001,Chinas total import and export volume
  reached 509.8 billion, 4.6 times as much as that
  in 1998.

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Figure Interpreting

• ??????6341????,??1870?,??????2???
• Shanghai covers an area of 6341 square kilometers
  with a population of 18.7 million, including a
  transient population of 2 million.

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• Skills in Interpretation---
• II. Note-taking

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Note takingA crucial technique of consecutive
interpretation

• Short-Term Memory (STM) The duration of STM is
  very short. It is up 6 to 30 seconds. Memory in
  interpreting only lasts for a short time.
• Long-Term Memory (LTM) ???

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Note taking

• Notes can help improve concentration,
  facilitate analysis of the speech, activate your
  memory and improve the accuracy of reproduction.
• It is accepted that notes are helpful to the
  interpretation, but its help is only secondary.
  In fact, the whole message depends largely on
  memory rather than notes.

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Note taking

• Tip
• Keep a dynamic balance between memory and notes
  and try to be less dependent on your notes.

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Warming-up Exercises 1

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  ????25?????

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The sentences could be noted as follows

• College Town 306 ??
• 240
  rest
  
• ??eg classroom dor.
• 
  canteen
• 
  shop
• 2.5 bi RMB

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Warming-up Exercises 1

• ??
• hectare
• ????
• educational facilities
• Interpreting Practice

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Reference

• The College Town covers an area of 306 hectares,
  of/among which 240 hectares are used for various
  kinds of educational facilities such as
  classrooms, while the rest (are used) for
  dormitories, canteens and shops.
• The total cost of building the whole college town
  will be 2.5 billion yuan.

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Note-taking What to note

• -Note down the main ideas. (words)
• -Systematically note down the links between
  different ideas.
• -Pay attention to conjunctions, verb tenses,
  conditional forms, and modal verbs.
• -Note down accurately the numbers, dates and
  proper names.
• Tip Digest before taking notes!

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Guidelines for Note-Taking

• 1. Concentrate on the lecture/speech
• the contradiction between listening and
  writing
• Great attention should be paid to
  understanding

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Guidelines for Note-Taking

• 2. Use whatever language that comes to your mind
• Interpreters are encouraged to use target
  language to take notes, thus helping the
  expressing of the final interpretation
• Target language (less transcoding, more demanding
  )
• Source Language (less strain during processing)
• the combination of TL and SL

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Guidelines for Note-Taking

• 3. Take notes selectively
• (125-140 words per minute// 25 words per minute)

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Guidelines for Note-Taking

• 4. Be brief. Write down only the major points and
  important information
• use abbreviations, symbols, acronyms
• use whatever language that comes to your mind
  SL or TL)
• Eg
• The negotiation held between the UN and rebel
  forces in Afghanistan broke down.
• (?UN??) X

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Guidelines for Note-Taking

• 5. Write legibly
• Notes are useless if you cannot read them
  later
• 6. Take notes vertically. T?
• break up the sentence into sense units
• 7. Don't be concerned with spelling and grammar.

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Guidelines for Note-Taking

• Tip
• Notes are essentially individual in character.
  Try to develop your own personalized note-taking
  methods.

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• College class notes
• Taken down in details, in source language with
  understanding. They are useful after class.
• Shorthand notes
• Taken automatically/ mechanically in the source
  language without any analysis/ thinking.
• Interpretation notes
• They are helpful for the interpretation but its
  help is only secondary. Great attention is paid
  to understanding. Note down key points and most
  of the message is in your mind. Notes are there
  to trigger passive memory in your mind. It is
  useless after interpretation.

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Note-taking

• In-class Practice (EC)

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Words and expressions

• declare open
• symposium (on)
• extend warm welcome to
• express ones sincere thanks to
• generous help
• popularize the use of
• deservers reference and study
• I wish the symposium a complete success

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In-class Practice (EC)

• Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen I declare
  open the international symposium on internet
  service. Id like to extend warm welcome to all
  the guests from various circle.//
• Id like to express my sincere thanks to the
  British and Australian companies and specialists
  whose generous help makes the successful opening
  possible.//

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In-class Practice (EC)

• Some overseas developed countries have
  accumulated much experience in promoting the
  internet service. The experience deservers
  reference and study. Through exchange, we will be
  able to get more information and knowledge.//

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In-class Practice (EC)

• I believe the symposium will be constructive and
  significant in popularizing the use of internet
  service in China. I wish the symposium a complete
  success.//

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In-class Practice (EC)

• Your Performance
• Notes Comparison
• Interpreting Practice

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Interpreting Practice (EC)

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