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10 Ways to Prepare for Translation,

Interpretation and Localization ManagementProf. Julie Johnson

September 25, 201410:00 a.m. (PST)

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Working with recordings: Analysis

• Watch/listen to a segment, then stop and orally summarize the key information reported

Explain it to yourself out loud in your own words

• Replay the segment to check yourself.• Repeat until you can do it.• Try the next segment…

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Working with recordings: Analysis

Variations:• Summarize in same language as the

recording• Summarize in your other language• Listen, but then summarize/outline it in

writing

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Working with recordings: Language Enhancement

• “Shadow” recordings in your foreign language(s)– For comprehension– For native-sounding expression– Guess meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary, then look it

up.

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Really Listen in Everyday Life

• Practice listening to people in this same way:

Attentively enough that you could explain it to someone else

Try reflecting back to the person what you understood

So you’re saying that….You mean…Do I have this right? ….

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Working with written texts

• Read a news article or other document then

Explain it to yourself out loud in your own words

Write a summary

Outline the key points

Diagram it

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Working with written texts

• As you read:• Ask yourself: What is this sentence doing?

Stating a thesis? Setting the stage? Providing an

example? Presenting an opposing point?....

• Outline it in the margin

• Circle all of the links between ideas

• Highlight all of the words that convey an opinion,

point of view, or tone

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Working with written texts:Language Enhancement

• Read aloud• Transcribe a paragraph or two by hand• First guess the meaning of unfamiliar

vocabulary, then look it up

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General Language Enhancement

• Keep a notebook (small pocket notebook; in phone)

1. Words and expressions you encounter that want to assimilate into your own vocabularyReview each morning and purposely use them until they become your own

2. Thoughts you think but are not sure how to express in your foreign languageListen/watch for them. When you hear or see the solution, note it downUse it until it becomes your own