Interpreter CPD Resources

The site comprises content written for this site by conference interpreters, extracts from CPD literature for conference interpreters, as well as links to other websites and material there for conference interpreters. Interpreters CPD Resources is non-profit and unsponsored.

Material about interpreting skills and interpreting has been drafted by conference interpreters and/or major institutions and interpreter organisations.

Much of the site covers skills that are not interpreting skills – marketing, negotiating, time-management etc. Advice on these skills applies to most small businesses and as such there is a wealth of materials online about them aimed at all the other businesses in the world that are not interpreting businesses. So as not to overburden this site we have only linked to material written by, and/or for, conference interpreters.

Similarly knowledge-based courses, or well-being courses, are not directed only at interpreters and therefore there are thousands of them out there. (You can take a course about how cars are manufactured or how search algorithms are built that might be useful and/or interesting to you but nothing really to do with interpreting). Again we’ve stuck with courses designed for interpreters specifically so as keep the site manageable.

Most of the skills we should have learnt when studying conference interpreting, in initial training, like public speaking, note-taking, analysis, simultaneous, sight translation… are NOT here. Similarly there not much material about language acquisition here. But never fear, you can find that on our partner website Interpreter Training Resources.

Curated by Andy Gillies.