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A report of Mr. Igor Maslennikov about Simultaneous interpretation from Russian into German (the native language of Mr. Maslennikov is Russian).

Prepare yourself for this kind of job: - He spoke with all lecturers over the phone and find out the general contents of their reports and the time each of them intended to dedicate to the report; - He prepared a glossary for his interpretation to gather all the vocabulary which he would need for the job (nouns, verbs and semantic word combinations).

Maslennikov prepared himself systematically, that is, he prepared a glossary on the basis of keywords.

The theme of the conference was: "Integration of Belarus into the European community", thus the primary focus of this conference would be on Belarus. This was the departure point for Mr. Maslennikov preparing his glossary.

Focus your research on the topic. It is not necessary “to copy all dictionaries”. Then you can start to “gather the necessary words and word combinations”. That can be done using general and specific dictionaries, “materials of the previous conferences with relevant themes, articles from political magazines and newspapers, and materials from the Internet”.

“It is important to use current periodicals and other up-to-date sources of information to determine which accepted terms are used in the other country for describing the realities of one's native country.”

In Simultaneous Interpretations it would be necessary to translate abbreviations from one language into the abbreviations of another one, “and there is usually no time for decoding”. So it is good to make a glossary of abbreviations, too.

“During simultaneous interpretation, sometimes it is necessary to remember a word in the given context, a word combination, or the translation into the other language within a few seconds, and such glossaries are very useful in those cases.”

“It is impossible to use glossaries prepared by other translators. Each translator prepares his or her own glossary according to their knowledge of language, experience of previous translations, and a specific topic of the interpretation job. The printed-out glossaries can be kept and re-read from time to time to brush up one's linguistic knowledge of relevant themes. They can always be used to prepare for upcoming interpretation jobs.”