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

Interpreting & Subtitltles: 60-second lectures

Visit the previous post on interpreting and 60-second lectures, Is It Wrong To Punish Prisoners? and do the worksheet on in:
Now you can listen to the lecture on the video below. This time:

• Take notes as a consecutive note-taking excercise
• Pause after each sentence for interpreting practice
• Try to write subtitles (caption) in your Target Language. There is a caption option, but nobody has done it yet. Be the first!

Amazing Tool: The Book

Spanish interpreting/translating students, check out this video from leerestademoda.com. You can minimize it, take notes and interpret, cover the subtitles an dstop it to interpret, translate it, use it for pronunciation practice, etc.
Everyone else, just enjoy it and start reading!


This reminded me of a very funny video about the same topic that adid the rounds a few years ago. This time is from Norway, so if you speak Norwegian, you can practise as above. Otherwise enjoy the subtitles!

Subtitles

 

If you are interested in learning about subtitles, listen to the following podcasts:

• Peter Templeton: Subtitles

  An interview with an editor of subtitles at SBS TV, Sydney

• Donna Tieri: Subtitler

  An interview with an subtitler of Italian/English at SBS TV, Sydney

   

Subtitles

Last week's sky from our classrooms

Have you ever wondered about subtitles? Who does this type of job? Is it a translator, interpreter. a linguist or just someone who speaks two languages fluently?

Listen to this interview with Peter Templeton, chief editor of Subtitling at SBS.