The Complete Interpreter

<p>A podcast to help spoken language conference interpreters or public service interpreters stand out in a competitive market by improving their skills, mindset, and marketing.</p>

The worst mistakes made by interpreter trainers

Support the show Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is for interpreter trainers. I've tried to think about which approaches I think are suc...

07-13
38:57

Retourists, don't make these mistakes!

Support the show Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to interpreters who work into a B language ('retourists'). Based on my exp...

07-06
27:38

How to create a stress management strategy for an exam

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Sign up for my workshop to create an action plan for the EU test Support the show Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to creati...

05-05
48:21

How to be a great relay (long version)

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Support the show Sign up for my workshop on salami technique, 8th May 2025 6.30 pm (UK) Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is about relay: w...

04-28
01:22:33

How to be a great relay in simultaneous

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Support the show Sign up for my workshop on salami technique, 8th May 2025 6.30 pm (UK) This episode is about relay: what annoys you when you're taking relay, what you find helpful, and your tips for being a good relay for other interpreters. There's a longer version of this podcast if you're still thirsty for more. It covers the same content, but with more thoughts, stories, explanations...and echoey sound! You ...

04-28
52:17

Approaches to tackling impostor syndrome

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Support the show Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to impostor syndrome. Here are some of the approaches I suggest (I've add...

02-17
48:41

Language interference when interpreting

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to linguistic interference. Here are some of the exercises I suggest: - in simultaneous, s...

10-20
27:57

Working on analytical skills

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to one of my hobby horses: analytical skills. I gave several examples from a French speech...

10-07
48:14

Approaches to interpreting from SOV>SVO (e.g. Japanese>English)

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. In this episode, I talk about the strategies you might consider when interpreting from a language with a Subject-Obje...

09-23
32:25

How to get the best out of a language tutor to improve your retour

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. In this episode, I talk about how conversation classes or 'language enhancement' can help you improve your B language...

09-09
41:51

Improved mood and cognition: should you be eating 50 g of chocolate a day? 😁

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. With Easter just around the corner, this is a lighthearted episode investigating whether chocolate can improve your m...

03-25
37:16

Exercises for early simultaneous

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is devoted to a discussion of exercises that can be useful in the 'early simultaneous stage' - particula...

03-18
59:17

Habituation: a tactic for reducing performance and exam stress

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of language, and marketing. In this episode, I talk about why you should get used to exam stress 😉, or rather, how the habituation effect can attenuate ...

03-11
26:01

Exploring collocations to improve your B language

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of language, and marketing. In this episode, I talk about collocations: identifying them, exploring them, and practising using them. Collocations can ma...

03-04
35:19

How to eat for energy!

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing. In this episode, I talk about how you can tweak your diet to keep your energy levels high and avoid the dreaded post-lunch slump! I also disc...

02-12
31:12

Starting simultaneous? 5 bad habits to avoid

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just an interpreting or translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of language, and marketing. This episode is for those of you who have just begun simultaneous. There are a few habits or approaches tha...

02-05
38:38

How to overcome your lizard brain

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing. Have you ever been in a stressful situation and felt completely frozen, or panicky? Panic is not a helpful reaction when you're in the booth ...

01-29
32:03

One (sim) interpreter, several speakers: letting the audience know a new speaker is beginning

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of language, and marketing. In this episode, I talk about how you can let the audience know a new speaker has begun talking (in simultaneous). Here are ...

01-22
22:53

How to set goals that stick in 2024

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing. In this episode, I talk about New Year's Resolutions (or intentions, or goals...however you want to describe them) and how to make them stick...

01-15
31:02

An A and two Bs: an interview with Sylvie Levi Roos about retours and more

Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just an interpreting or translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing. For this episode, I interviewed our colleague Sylvie Levi Roos about her long career, in which she worked as a French booth ...

12-18
01:13:51

shadi Aghighi

hello thanks I found your words kinda useful..thanks..

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