Ukraine-Europe Linguistic Centre offers a crash course in professional interpreting comprising two-months training in two-way consecutive interpreting.

The course is intended to raise professional awareness of students in the issues of basic interpretation and translation approaches, interpreters` devices and tools, interpreters` ethics, communication aspects of interpreting, interpretation audiences, training and preparation methods, professional interpreters` basic vocabulary, interpretation psychology and stress factors.

Course duration – 24 sessions (48 classroom hours). Classes are held ONLINE. Full course completion is formally certified.  

Among other subjects, the course covers:

• general translation theory basics (transformations, equivalence, main approaches, intermediate translation models, etc.);
• specific features and difficulties of oral translation (interpretation) with special emphasis on modern communication peculiarities (high speech tempo, newly coined metaphors, general `democratization` of the language, professional slang);
• linguistic   aspects   of  interpreting   (transformational  and  denotatum-based  approaches, background information role, domination of regular equivalents, limited context);
• psychophysiology of interpreting (categorization of stress factors, methods of relaxation, `role model` of an interpreter);
• phonetics in interpreting (interdependence of pronunciation and perception, pauses and intonation, typical deviations from RP);
• professional interpreting techniques and devices, including text compression, rephrasing, generalization, omissions, `ready-made` speech clichés;
• professional interpreting `success story`, including description of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors which determine the success of interpretation;
• interpretation difficulties and barriers, including high speech tempo,  speakers` incorrect pronunciation, `precision words` (numerals, geographical and proper names), semantically incomplete utterances;
• interpreters` typical mistakes, including omissions, semantic and stylistic incoherence, delays, attempts to catch up with the speaker, etc.;
• specifics of English-Ukrainian / Russian language pair, including:
• predominantly verbal way of expression in English vs. predominantly nominative in Ukrainian / Russian;
• differences in rhetoric;
• role of context;
• methods of compensation;
• specific features of professional interpreting varieties, including interpreting at technical, scientific, and political conferences and seminars, focus group discussions, round table talks, presentations, press-conferences, etc.

Theoretical lecturing is minimal – the key of the course is training based on special system of activities as well as interpreting practice, based on video/audio recordings of speeches and presentations.

 

For the course price (one-to-one tuition only): please contact us here.