Practice Interpreting platform

Whether you are setting out to add a new language to your combination, reactivate a rusty C or try your hand at consecutive for the first time since graduation, you’ll find a practice group to suit your needs here.

The basic principles shared by all our member groups are deliberate practice (systematic and purposeful practice aimed at improving specific aspects of a skill) and exchange between peers —an exchange of practice materials, feedback, and advice. Anyone participating in an interpreting practice group acts as Speaker, Interpreter, and Listener.

Listeners and Interpreters work together for a profitable practice session and they pair up based on their language combination (for example, someone working on adding an English B would pair up with a native English listener). Interpreters communicate what specific skills or difficulties they are working on so that Listeners can focus on them while listening to their performance. During the feedback parts of the session, they get together again in private to discuss the Interpreter’s performance, and the Listener provides their feedback and advice for improvement.

Speakers, on the other hand, are expected to prepare or find practice-appropriate materials such as speeches or debates.

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