Environment-Liverpool Planes and Mining Licenses

TEDxDubbo - Fiona Simson - Fuel vs Food, a Personal Passion

Listen (and take notes) to Fiona Samson's Ted Talk about the situation in the Liverpool plains regarding mining.  She believes that the current legislation favours mining over agriculture, water and food and is passionate about mining not being allowed if it poses a threat to agricultural areas or to valuable natural resources.  

Groundwater

Consecutive practice
Check Michael Caton's short speech at the Our Land Our Water Our Future campaign at the Sydney Mint in April 2014.

Michael Caton speaking at OLOWOF launch from David Lowe on Vimeo.

Immigration- Note-taking practice

Hi all,

We have been looking at analysing speeches and discourse of different genres as a step to help us be better prepared for consecutive interpreting.

The video below is about immigration compliance. It is an info commercial, so sorry about the commercial aspect of it, but I think it will be very useful for you.

I have created a worksheet with some hints on how to use the video.

Law and Justice

This week's topic is Law and Justice. There is currently a debate in our country about the proposed changes to the Australian Racial Discrimination Act. This video of Senator Penny Wong is a very good  one to practise your note-taking and consecutive interpreting skills.



You can also check this previous post on Law and Order where you will find a slide show with the recording of a police officer explaining  the process of an arrest.

This post on Court Interpreting  will give you some background on the latest developments in legal interpreting studies in Australia as well as a sobering look at the situation of legal interpreting in Spain.

Check the video on this other post on Court Interpreting from Vancouver Community College on Ethical Challenges for Court Interpreters. You can use it for consecutive and note-taking practice .

Finally here is a post with links and resources related to the topics of Law, Police and Justice. Please feel free to send me any interesting materials that you think I could add to this list.

Consecutive Practice

Revisit this very good video on memory techiques and note-taking.

How can you practise consecutive interpreting at home?

There are many sites with video/audio materials that you can use to practise note-taking and consecutive interpreting skills. You can check educational institutions where translating and interpreting is taught, websites dedicated to famous speeches by politicians, famous speeches on films, TEd talks, university podcasts (iTunesU), radio programs (e.g. ABC Law Report), etc. Check the permanent links on the right side bar.

Today I am introducing WISE Interpreting Workshop speeches for consecutive practice. This is a project by The London Metropolitan University and the Universidad Europea de Valencia.

The video below is about cricket (English).



The video below is in Spanish and its topic is tourism (Las Fallas, Valencia).

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.

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

It's not a disgrace...

This video was produced for the Spanish speaking community of NSW. It is in Spanish with English subtitles. It will be very good practice for the topics of health and welfare. It's not a disgrace...it's dementia - Spanish

Note-taking Revisited

248/365 one of those days

In a previous post, Note Taking for Consecutive Interpreting , we watched some videos on note-taking techniques. Today you can check this site, Interpreter Training Resources. Even though it is aimed at a French audience, the skills described are transferable, and often they use English examples, like;
The rule of thumb is that unless a word is short (4-5 letters) the interpreter should note it in an abbreviated form.

Check the whole file here

You can find the example above in the document,  Rozan - The 7 Principles of Note-taking.
Spanish students, check this out: Los pequeños detalles que marcan la gran diferencia en interpretación consecutiva, por Judith de dos palabras.
Happy practising!

TEDxTalks & Spanish

I have told you about TEDXTalks Open Translation Project in previous posts.





















The video above was transalted into Spanish by  Lourdes Cahuich  , who said:

Jill Tarter's TED Prize wish is the best talk I've translated because she inspired me to look beyond my everyday problems and made me look at my life as a human being -- "one possible outcome of billions of years of evolution of Hydrogen and Helium" -- and how the SETI research could change our history.

La charla del deseo TED Prize de Jill Tarter es la mejor charla que he traducido por que ella me inspira a mirar más allá de mis problemas cotidianos y me hace ver mi vida como ser humano como..."un posible resultado de miles de millones de años de evolución del hidrógeno y el helio", y cómo la investigación SETI cambiará nuestra historia. 

You will find Translators from many other languages talking about the videos they have found most inspiring here.

Note Taking for Consecutive Interpreting

On a previous post, we had a look at some great examples of consecutive and simultaneous interpreting. I know some of you have to take the final exam for consecutive interpreting very shortly. Check the videos below for great advice on note taking.
The first one is a speech "Soluciones ante la crisis" and the note taking at the same time.

The video below is a speech on food, "los locávoros" .

The following video is an explanation of how the notes for the previous video were taken.

This one is another demonstration.

The last one is some comments on how to avoid problems and improve your note-taking skills.


You can listen to them and practise your note-taking skills.

Interpreters & Translators

Bootheando has published a very interesting post with the video below.

Those of you who can read Spanish* can check the post here. For the rest, a summary follows.

It's hard for many students to decide whether to become interpreters or translators. Toby Screech, a conference interpreter (AIIC accredited in English, Dutch, French and German) explains the main differences between interpreting and translating.
Watch the video and use it to practise your interpreting skills.

*Spanish speakers can also listen to this great radio program where three Spanish interpreters talk about their job. We are even taken to a school of interpreting in Spain.

Interpreting Videos

• Agrupacion de Interperetes AIB
• Consecutive example: Roger Waters 1, 2
• Directorate General for Interpretation EU: Working with and as an Interpreter: Check this test example: Testing Times Part 1 and Part 2
• Geneva Uni Interpreting videos
• Interpreting Training Videos
• Interperting Training part1
• Interpreting Trainig Part 2
• Monterey Interpreting videos
• Simultaneous examples: Conference speech. Check the other examples on the youtube sidebar
• snag films, eductional videos, useful for consecutives. The story of Vinh is a full length doco.
• Thought leaders: Interviews with international leaders and innovators in fields relevant to flexible educational practice. Good for consecutive practice. 
• 21 accents (funny and inspiring)

Interpreting Links

• AD blog Alexander Drechsel
• AIIC’s collaborativeQ&A forum
• Aventuras de una traductora interprete de Madrid
• Bootheando: El blog de un intérprete de conferencias
• Bootheando's list of Interpreting blogs
• Consecutive Practice Materials (links to speeches and other practice material)
• Discursos del Che (Spanish)
• Diversity Health Institute
• Diversity e Issue
• dos palabras
• El interprete
• EMCI-Modules (Interpreting and Translating)
• Enlace (UHK, UNSW interpreting practice and issues)
• EULITA conference papers: legal interpreting & translating presentations
• Ewandro Magalhaes
• Explainity  short speeches with explanatory videos
• Five principles/skills in training interpreters
• Forum: pphb
• From Our Lips to Your Ears
• In my words
• Interpreternaut
• Interpreter Training Resources  
• Interpreting Training Videos 
• Isabel Framer
• Language and Mind Mastery
• Leeds University
• Legal Interpreting training  links
• Mandarin-English Dialogues Carl Gene Fordham
• Medical Spanish English Interpreting
• MOOCs: udacity,  coursera free online courses on many fields of study, e.g. introduction to finance
• NNI (National Network for Interpreting)
• Onu: Radio Onu (Spanish)
• NNI (National Network for Interpreting)
• Onu en minutos (Spanish consecutive practice)
• Oral Presentations-Splendid Speaking
• ORCIT: theory and practice
• Practical Guide for Professional Conference Interpreters
• Rompiendo el hielo
• Sample tests for the OET (Ocupational English Test) for health practitioners
• SCICtrain
• SOS-VICS formaciónde intérpretes en contextos de violencia de género
• Speechpool
• Soccer/football: Guia de Pronunciacion 
• TED Talks
• The Interpreter Diaries  by Lourdes de Rioja
• The Professional Interpreter (English-Spanish)
• The Speech Accent Archive
• The Translation and Interpretation blog 
• Traducterpretes e Intrerpretores
• United Nations Radio 
• Vigo University Resources
• SBS podcasts in 68 languages: Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Indonesian, Italian, Greek
• Sarah Dillon's blog 
• A Word in Your Ear video blog by Lourdes de Rioja with videos on note-taking, etc.
• WebMD Health information with recordings (USA)

• 2M Language Services