Preparation

Preparation tips

Tips to help interpreters prepare for your meeting

Guidelines for Conference Preparation – Setton & Dawrant

Annotating the text of a speech for SIM – Rowland Palairet

How to prepare for CI assignments

NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews as a meeting preparation tool

Know thy speaker! Claudia Monacelli

Preparation for an interpreting assignment : Barbara Dumara. EMCI lecture

EMCI Przygotowanie do tłumaczenia ustnego

Preparing to interpret numbers – Fritella

Follow current sporting events!

The Secret Symphony Strategy

¿Cómo preparar una reunión?
The Eloquent Detective – Dick Fleming
How to prepare and research for an interpreting assignment – Susanne Birker-Guillen

Meeting Preparation: Then and Now – Mary FONS I FLEMING

Thiery-sense-of-SituationDownload

Preparation tips – Valerie Taylor Bouladon

The Interpretation Station

Mono- and bi-lingual terminology extraction with SketchEngine – Josh Goldsmith


Meeting preparation in conference interpreting – Isabel Jimenez-Ugarte, European Parliament

Activation

Activation is an important part of preparation and one that is often overlooked by student interpreters. Here are some ideas for you.

Activation exercises

Flashcards (digital or analogue)

6 steps to activate language

Glossaries

How to build a glossary @ Interpreters CPD

All about glossaries @ Interpreters CPD

General reference

CIA factbook

BBC country profiles

European Parliament Fact Sheets

European Parliamentary Research Service (Google EPRS + topic)

Howstuffworks.com

The Khan Academy

the very multi-lingual WIKIpedia

Google as a dictionary 1

Google as a dictionary 2

Using Google as a dictionary 3