Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpretation: A Short Course is the essential step-by-step guide to note-taking skills. This user-friendly guide is a particularly valuable resource for student translators, professionals looking to refresh their skills, and translator trainers looking for innovative ways to approach note-taking. Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an information business © 2017 Andrew Gillies.
The right of Andrew Gillies to be identified as the author of this work is asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. More often than not, the "big ones" will t They tell you that one interpretation after another cannot be taught and that note-taking depends on the personality of the interpreter. The analysis chapter has been amended to include only the types of speech analysis that directly affect note-taking.
A summary of other authors' notation guidelines is included in Part III for comparison and reference.
Part I
Note shorter synonyms
Note a different SVO group with the same meaning
Noting only two of the three elements in SVO
Make several short sentences out of one long one
Choosing what to remember will be one of the most important things you learn when learning to interpret consecutively. You will notice that many of the words you made up have very similar meanings to each other. To make the groups I use more clear, I've added a brief explanation of the common denominator to each group in the third column.
Not only is there no connection, but we move on to another part of the speech. Now mark the links and note the corresponding symbol on the margin on the left side of the box. This will save you time in practice and work, and you will get used to the presence of an edge on the page.
Now make notes, either in your pad or in the space provided, of the same speech by McCulley (on pages 68 and 69) following the SVO pattern from Chapter 3. Uses of the Margin" to see what other uses the margin has, when taking notes Use the notes you have made from written texts as part of previous chapters and during your own practice – notes that include the Subject Verb Object units and the connections between them – try to reproduce orally a version of the source speech, either in the same language or a target language, from these notes.
The best description of the technique performers should use to read from their notes when performing in sequence is that given by Jones reproduced in the next box. This will reveal the top of the next page, while you can still see the bottom of the previous one. Marking on both sides of the page makes it impossible (no matter how you turn the page) for both the current page and the next page to be visible at the same time.
Someone has created a set of notes that is a useful exercise in the skills described in the previous chapters. As the method becomes more automatic, you can move on to other chapters of this book and the last two levels of the following chart.
Lists 1
Used in conjunction with diagonal notation, it holds any number of permutations and still provides the interpreter with a clear picture of what is going on. If you try writing Fra Ger UK horizontally on your notepad, you'll see how much less clear it is on the page. The same technique can be applied to other columns if, for example, there is more than one verb or object.
Expanding the example further, we can see that the same note-taking system can record any number of combinations. Because the French, German and British governments have reduced customs duties, visa fees and administrative burdens. Because the French, German and British governments have reduced, simplified or eliminated customs duties, visa fees and administrative burdens.
Verticality and Hierarchies of Values 83 When the list is in the object column of the notebook, you might want to make it even clearer on the page by adding a hyphen before each item in the list.
Lists 2
Advances in science, new community initiatives and new government policies are working to solve problems big and small in our cities. Although many actions to reverse global warming require the cooperation of governments and international efforts, there are also things we can do in our own neighborhoods to make the world cleaner and safer and to reduce global warming. Try to record the following passage ( Hasanov ) in the attached box or on your own notepad.
Remember you are still not trying to record or reproduce everything; you are looking for the Subject Verb Object group, the links and now the hierarchies of value. Verticality and hierarchies of values 85 States, in short Turkish Council, established by the Nakhchivan Agreement in 2009, strengthens the mutual trust between the parties; maintaining peace in the region and beyond; the promotion of common positions on foreign policy issues;.
Lists 3
- Ideas
- Who is speaking
- Verb tense and modal verbs
- Proper names, numbers, dates, lists
- The last sentence of a speech
However, in the second example, the UK and Ireland are taken as a single item in the same list. A list that now has four items, not five as in the first example. In practice, you will have to say "UK and Ireland" faster - at the same time as you say the single names of other countries.
This chapter suggests that the most important elements are furthest to the left and that any two elements in the same idea that are aligned vertically on the page are of equal value. However, we do not need to record the same subject every time, because by recording the verbs parallel to each other on the page, we can assume that a space in the subject position means that the verbs have the same subject. Remembering that what is in parentheses is less important information that qualifies the element immediately above or below the parentheses, you can reproduce a version of this part of the speech from the notes.
Apply the analysis and note-taking techniques you learned in the previous chapters to speech transcriptions. They are all notated using underlines in the notes following the passage. To give you an idea, here is a list of the symbols used in the sample notes in Part III that (with one exception, made specifically for a particular speech) this author uses regularly.
It will be enough to jog our memory and remember what information was contained in the original. In the following example, the speaker, Chukka Umunna, is speaking to the Japanese Chamber of Industry and Commerce in the UK. Japanese companies have invested in several manufacturing plants in the North East of the United Kingdom, and that, if we can't.
Another example of rhetorical repetition is found here where the speaker in the same speech reverses the order to repeat the same thing. Regularly doing this exercise will help you take notes more concisely while listening in the future. If possible, you should still try to note the number, name and other details in the correct place on the notepad page.
These points are collected and summarized from books you will find in the bibliography at the back.
Part II
You can see that much of the useful information is contained in the clause rather than in the main subject verb (Object) group. Then, as usual, we note the SVO group in the clause from left to right. However, what is important to remember is to recognize the relative importance of the clause in the sentence and record accordingly.
Note: You can also use the callout bar to display multiple iterations of a concept, as shown in the following example. If we think someone is particularly important, we can highlight them by marking them along the margin on the left. The interpreter should return the favor by clearly writing the same numbers as in the example in the margin.
In the same way, pay attention to question words (why, how, who, where, when, what) preceded by a question mark on the left margin. And to complicate matters, background information can be first or second in a pair of ideas. This category also includes terms like first, second, third, which refer to the order of sections in the text itself.
In the example below, the speaker talks about the fate of Roma boys versus that of Roma girls. Start the list of details on the right side of the page so you can add the rest to the left, in the SVO configuration, later. In this case, you should mark these elements in the order you hear them, but change their position Example (McCulley).
You will have listed the elements in the order you heard them (given in square brackets [1] ), but you will have placed them on the page as shown here. This will give you the following notes even though you noted the elements in the order you heard them. In the next example, not only links are capitalized, but also the word worse.
SMS and chat abbreviations or spellings can also be used in the same way.
