- 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...
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