ABSTRACT

In this chapter student interpreter introduces to links, compile groups of similar links, start taking notes that can be used to reproduce speeches and start taking notes from the spoken word. Identifying the ideas is a major step towards understanding and recreating a speech as an interpreter, but just as important as the ideas themselves are the relationships between them: the links. Links are words or expressions that tell student interpreter how the two ideas fit together. The chapter identifies some links and the words and expressions that are used to represent them, as well as develop a technique for noting them that reflects their importance within a speech. It shows how to move from noting from text to paper to the real thing. The chapter is divided into three parts: taking notes directly, reproducing speeches from notes, and note-taking from the spoken word.