Học phiên dịch: Các lỗi thường xảy ra trong quá trình phiên dịch (updating)

- Listening / Note taking

• Fast speaking speaker, hard to interrupt / to slow down if the chair doesn't signal him
• Speaker forgetting about the interpreter and going on and on
• Speaker stopping too often and/or too early (before you get to understand the idea he's explaining)
• Chair, panelists or delegates chatting while you're trying to listen

Reading / Remembering

• Bad links, not knowing who does what to whom / what has to be changed because of what and by whom / ...
• Forgetting tenses (changes done, being done or to be done?)
• Indecipherable symbols or abbreviations - and putting on a perfect poker face instead of facial expressions that would indicate to the entire audience that your are TOTALLY lost: Double effort.

Speaking

• Being listened to (lately, we had a room of 100, with 80 francophones chattering while my colleague was trying to talk loud enough to be understood by the remaining 20 anglophone delegates).
• Not being interrupted by the speaker (they'll tend to take back the floor when you pause for longer than 0.5 seconds. When you are trying to decipher your notes, the pause is often mistaken - people think you're done).
• Managing to focus when your speaker turns out to be fluent enough in your target language to interrupt you and to correct you (ah, legal conferences!) . And remembering at what point he interrupted you. And getting going again. (And putting aside your pride. If you're confident enough you won't really care and even be grateful if the speaker himself is kind and understanding).

Misc

• Biactives: Going into the right language ;
• Not running out of paper ;
• Being prepared to start note taking all the times. Even in a restaurant, after hours, when you have to use your napkin as a notepad (though you always should have a small Moleskine notepad in your jacket) and you colleague's back as a support.
• During Q&A's, when speaker replies in a different language than the one he usually speaks. It might (shouldn't!) happen that you won't be listening from the beginning, since your brain will tell you that you don't need to interpret his intervention.