Make greater progress in a shorter time learning how to accurately transfer messages to a target language with Consecutive Interpreting from English. 

Improve your self-awareness and self-confidence with the Five-Step Follow-Up, which includes a way to determine the impact of errors on interpretation. Develop independent and accurate self-monitoring skills, which every highly skilled interpreter must have. Exercise materials progress from easy to more difficult within each unit.

Topics include:

• History and Uses of Consecutive Interpreting
• Intralingual Exercises
• Errors in Interpretation
• Listening Phase
• Note-Taking and Analysis
• Memory
• Reformulation
• Monitoring and Correction

Use this innovative step-by-step approach to hone your skill in comprehending, transferring, and reformulating the message with out the pressures of simultaneous interpreting. Gain confidence and proficiency in consecutive interpreting and you are likely to be more accurate and less fatigued when interpreting conversations or lectures. You will also be more prepared to move on to the more demanding challenges of simultaneous interpreting.

The Effective Interpreting Series is a multi-installment series offering five sets of source materials in English to use with any other language in a language pair, and five sets of source materials in American Sign Language (ASL). The series takes the complex skill of simultaneous interpreting and breaks it down into manageable components, allowing interpreters to increase the individual skills that lead to effective simultaneous interpreting.

About the author:

Carol J. Patrie, Ph.D., was instrumental in designing and implementing the Master of Arts in Interpretation at Gallaudet University. An author of many National and International publications and a sought-after speaker and trainer, Patrie is one of the foremost professionals in the field of Interpretation and Education.