Interpreting & Translating Courses at Petersham TAFE, 2104

Breaking News!
Diploma of Translating and Diploma of Interpreting in the Smart and Skilled 2014 NSW Skills List

Petersham TAFE is offering Interpreting and Translating courses in Korean, Mandarin (Interpreting), Chinese (Translating) and Spanish.
Our courses are Diploma of Translating 11698, Diploma of Interpreting 11692 and Advanced Diploma of Interpreting 11693.
Please check our wiki for information on how to apply for one of our courses.
To get an idea about what we do, watch this video where Marjorie, a 2012 Interpreting student, tells you about her Diploma of Interpreting course.

La sorpresa y bailamos?

Maru was telling us about a video that made her cry at work. What a coincidence that as soon as I got home a friend of mine who lives in NY had sent me exactly the same video! Here it is for you to practise your not-taking skills, consecutive interpreting skills and subtitling attempts. Below I am also posting a second video that would be perfect for the same type of practice. Only that the subtitles have already been written! Check them out. Would you do them in the same way? We'll talk about it in class.
¿Bailamos? by dm_523e02e4c6a97

Court Interpreting

Check the video below from Vancouver Community College on Ethical Challenges for Court Interpreters. Interesting and very good consecutive practice. there are many more to the right of the youtube video page

Tourism

Last week we were dealing with the subject of tourism. Check the video about San Lorenzo festivities in Huesca, Aragon (Spain). As usual, use the video to practice your note-taking and interpreting skills.

Noticias Aragón - 09/08/13

• Noticias Aragón - 09/08/13

Telephone Interpreting-Spanish

I follow several groups on facebook on ESL or interpreting related issues. Through one of them I received this video about telephone interpreting published by the University of Vigo. Check the University of Vigo website and use this video for practice in interpreting an introduction to the key note speaker. There are several videos for this lecture. The one I selected is the beginning of the lecture. Note how the presenter mentions Australia! As usual, use the video to take notes and practise your interpreting skils.

More on Note-Taking

Thanks to Rodolfo for sending a link to these Note-Taking videos.

Visualising Speeches & Mind Maps for Consecutives

The video below is the one I mentioned in class. Note that there are many similar ones on different topics.

Enjoy the practice! we will discuss it in class, but it'd be great if you left your comments here.

Translate from Image to Image

Helping a student find background materials for an Ethics assignment I came across some very interesting resources. One of them was a slide show on professional liability. It was published by a member of MiTiN, the equivalent to our AUSIT in Michigan.

The other thing that I thought may interest you is this entry in the MiTiN blog, When experience is your only dictionary. I hope you enjoy it and keep it in mind when we next meet after the holidays and I give you a problematic text to translate.
Have a good break!

EC Audiovisual Service - Video

Great resource to practise consecutive interpreting and note-taking. You can change the voice off of the video from Spanish into English (and other languages).


EC Audiovisual Service - Video

Student Picked Videos for Analysing Speeches

Most of you have already finished the assessment task on analysing speeches. Below you'll find some of the videos you chose. Check each other videos and use them to practise further. You can concentrate on one of the note-taking skills we've been practising so far (structure maps, mind maps, summary of content, mini summaries, diagonal SVO, etc). Thnak you everyone for your good work!

• Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book
• Kate Swaffer Dementia My Story
• TED TALKS: Christopher DeCharms A look inside the brain
• Osteoporosis
• Last Interview with Hugo Chavez
• The Girl Who Silenced The World For five minutes

I will leave you with The greatest Speech Ever,  Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King

Analising speeches and note-taking practice

During the last few weeks, we have been learning about speech analyis and have practised different ways of looking at a speech.

Use Paul Keating s famous speech The Redfern Address (1992) to do the following analyisis:

• Understanding content: listen and then write a summary of the speeech
• Structure Map: Listen and only note down the funcitonal parts of the speech 
• Mini Summary: Listen and note down the main ideas only
• Mind map: Listen and draw a mind map of the speech

• You should try to render the speech into your target language looking at your mind map notes
• You can listen to it a couple of days later and take notes using some of the techniques practiced in class to

You can get the script here.

Note Taking Continued

As promised, this is the video we were talking about in class yesterday. It is a 1999 lecture on consecutive interpretation delivered by Nick Roche to a small group of interpreting students.

This week our topic was Government and international relations. You can use the video below to practice your note-taking skills . Check the section on minute 8:00 where he talks about the changes in international relations between Latin American countries and Europe.

Finally, listen to this interview with an architect about local governmet regulation relating to building matters. You can access a worksheet that will help you with your glossary compilation and comprehension of the discourse.

Here we come 2013!

Welcome to our new 2013 Translating and interpreting posts.

Many of yo are new students, so I thought you would like to watch this video the Role of the Interpreter.

A google search will bring up other interesting videos about the role of an interpreter. Watch them and take notes to bring to our next class.