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Interpreting Tuition

DPSI Candidate on Exam day

 Scottish / French Law

Modules for Colleges

Groups

Job opportunities for a freelance Interpreter

You are able to register and work for:
Police 
Media
Home Office Immigration
Job Interviews Business Meetings
Training courses
Social Services Hospitals           Education Solicitors         
Courts
Citizens Advice Bureau
Translation Agencies

Work opportunities when on holiday in France with:
Estate Agents
Police
Hospital etc...

Skills

Listening Skills

Legal Interpreting Courses

Scottish Legal System

French Legal system

We facilitate courses in French & English (Scottish Law)

Courses are devised to meet the requirements for:

• Lawyers wishing to improve their legal vocabulary as a working tool
• Home office and Police officers

• Students wishing to sit the the DPSI examination in interpreting (Legal Option : French-Scottish Law)

• Awareness of the professional standard in interpreting for both the service user and the service provider so that an efficient working relationship is established as opposed to an "informal arrangement" which include child, family , friend and untrained interpreters.

• The professional approach between the service user (who needs to be aware of the trained interpreter's expectations) and the service provider (the trained interpreter cannot wear the hat of the service provider but does need to advise him/her of cultural differences, inferences etc..)  See the excellent research paper "Translating, Interpreting And Communication Support Service across the Public Sector in Scotland: A Literature review" By J.McPake & R. Johnstone (2002)  see  this link

Skills

Listening Skills are paramount to a professional interpreter

Tuition is offered on the basis of:

One to one	Distance learning
Group	In house

• What is the DPSI?
  The Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (DPSI)
  provides evidence of the ability to interpret between providers and users of the public services who do not share a common language.
  The DPSI diploma is granted by the Institute of Linguists (IoL) London.
• What are the specialised options?
  • Legal : Scottish-French Law
  • Health
  • Local Government Services, including social services, housing, welfare and education Social Services and Government services.
• What does the examination consists of?
  • interpreting using consecutive and simultaneous techniques
  • sight translation from and into English
  • written translation from and into English.

The format of the examination is as follows:

Oral Tasks

• Task 1A - Consecutive & Simultaneous interpreting task into English. (15 min)
• Task 1B - Consecutive & Simultaneous interpreting task from English.(15 min)
• Task 2A - Oral sight translation from English (10 min.-5 min to study text of 180 words approx, and 5 min. to deliver)
• Task 2B -  Oral sight translation from English (time as above)

See a sample of material used for the course to prepare candidates

to the oral tasks: Candidate on Exam day

Written Tasks

• Task 3A - Translation into English (1 Hour)
• Task 3B - Translation from English (1 Hour)
• Please contact us for a Course Content.

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