ABSTRACT
This book is not intended to be read from cover to cover but used as a reference work to be dipped into as and when necessary. And the exercises are meant as a complement to your normal interpreting practice, not a substitute. Similar exercises are grouped together where possible, but that doesn't mean that you should do the exercises in the order they are presented here — this is not a course book. Nor should you try to do all of the exercises in the book — that's probably not even possible! Instead, you should work out, perhaps in consultation with a teacher, what skills you need to work on and then you can look up practice exercises for those skills here. Interpreter trainers looking for ideas to help students with a given skill can turn to the appropriate section of the book or check the index to find a suitable exercise. Where possible, similar exercises within each chapter have been grouped together, so do browse back and forth either side of the exercise you’re looking at.
