The Complete Interpreter
The Complete Interpreter
Sophie Llewellyn Smith
A podcast to help spoken language conference interpreters or public service interpreters stand out in a competitive market by improving their skills, mindset, and marketing.
The worst mistakes made by interpreter trainers
Support the show Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is for interpreter trainers. I've tried to think about which approaches I think are suc...
Jul 13, 2025
38 min
Retourists, don't make these mistakes!
Support the show Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to interpreters who work into a B language ('retourists'). Based on my exp...
Jul 6, 2025
27 min
How to create a stress management strategy for an exam
Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Sign up for my workshop to create an action plan for the EU test Support the show Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to creati...
May 5, 2025
48 min
How to be a great relay (long version)
Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Support the show Sign up for my workshop on salami technique, 8th May 2025 6.30 pm (UK) Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is about relay: w...
Apr 28, 2025
1 hr 22 min
How to be a great relay in simultaneous
Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Support the show Sign up for my workshop on salami technique, 8th May 2025 6.30 pm (UK) This episode is about relay: what annoys you when you're taking relay, what you find helpful, and your tips for being a good relay for other interpreters. There's a longer version of this podcast if you're still thirsty for more. It covers the same content, but with more thoughts, stories, explanations...and echoey sound! You ...
Apr 28, 2025
52 min
Approaches to tackling impostor syndrome
Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Support the show Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to impostor syndrome. Here are some of the approaches I suggest (I've add...
Feb 17, 2025
48 min
Language interference when interpreting
Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to linguistic interference. Here are some of the exercises I suggest: - in simultaneous, s...
Oct 20, 2024
27 min
Working on analytical skills
Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. This episode is dedicated to one of my hobby horses: analytical skills. I gave several examples from a French speech...
Oct 7, 2024
48 min
Approaches to interpreting from SOV>SVO (e.g. Japanese>English)
Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. In this episode, I talk about the strategies you might consider when interpreting from a language with a Subject-Obje...
Sep 23, 2024
32 min
How to get the best out of a language tutor to improve your retour
Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach. Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of target language, and marketing. In this episode, I talk about how conversation classes or 'language enhancement' can help you improve your B language...
Sep 9, 2024
41 min
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