Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course

by Andrew Gillies

Consecutive A Short Course provides a step-by-step guide to consecutive interpreting. This user-friendly coursebook tackles key skills such as presentation, analysis, note-taking and reformulation, as well as advanced market-related skills such as preparation for assignments, protocol and practical tips for working interpreters. Each chapter provides examples of the skill, as well as a variety of exercises to learn the skill both in isolation and then in combination with other skills.

Including model answers, a glossary of terms and further reading suggestions, this is the essential coursebook for all students of consecutive interpreting as well as for interpreter-trainers looking for innovative ways of teaching consecutive interpreting.

269 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2019

About the author

Andrew Gillies has been a freelance conference interpreter since 1996 and works from French, German and Polish into English at the European Parliament, the European Patent Office, the European Space Agency and the European Commission.

Formerly a Teacher of English as Foreign Language he has been training interpreters since 1999 and has taught at the interpreting schools in Łódż, Warsaw, Cracow, Cologne, Westminster, Lisbon and ISIT, Paris as well as for the European Parliament in Brussels. He also gives Training of Trainers workshops for AIIC (the International Association of Conference Interpreters) and ISIT (Institut Supérieure d'Interprétation et Traduction).

Andrew Gillies has published a number of books and articles on conference interpreter training and has translated J-F Rozan's La prise de notes en interprétation consécutive into English.