- •Interpreting
- •Introduction
- •The aim is clear: we do not teach languages, we teach “interpreting” Skills
- •Intuition, concentration vs dispersed attention, good memory, dominant hemisphere/ear preference.
- •Section 1. Передача имен собственных и географических названий.
- •Section 2. Article
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise Ex.1. Tongue Tanglers (для отработки дикции).
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training Ex.1.Restore the order of the paragraphs The real Romney-Obama dog fight
- •Answer: 1e ; 2a ; 3b; 4d ; 5f ; 6c; Ex.2.Selective Listening.
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Global public square. Henry kissinger (former u.S. Secretary of state)
- •Interview for cnn's 'Fareed Zakaria gps' (cnn - Sunday, June 8, 2008)
- •1. What do you think is the most important skill that a president is going to need? What could throw them off course? What advice would you give them, no matter who were elected?
- •2. Do you think that fundamentally the United States and Russia could have a significantly greater strategic cooperation than they do now?
- •5. So, you are not in favor of kicking Russia out of the g8? And if you were to extend the g8, would you include China?
- •6. But in a broader sense, what you are talking about is drawing these emerging powers into the global framework. Would it be better to try to create new lines?
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Pick up 3-4 articles on any urgent topic that proves interesting to you.
- •Section 1. Перевод неологизмов
- •Section 2. Article
- •International relations
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise Ex.1.Tongue Twisters (для отработки дикции).
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training Historic handshakes
- •2. John f. Kennedy- Nikita Khrushchev 1961
- •3. Richard Nixon- Mao Tse-tung, 1972
- •4. Menachem Begin - Anwar Sadat, 1977
- •5. Ronald Reagan -Mikhail Gorbachev 1985
- •6. F.W. De Klerk -Nelson Mandela, 1990
- •7. Yitzhak Rabin – Yasser Arafat – Bill Clinton, 1993
- •8. Clinton and Castro, 2000
- •9. Queen Elizabeth II and Martin McGuinness 2012
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Section9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training. Your portfolio. Краткий реферативный перевод первой статьи
- •Section 1. Перевод заимствований.
- •Section 2. Article Ex.1 Read and express each paragraph in three sentences (present your speech by memory without using text or notes) Performance art
- •Inspiring or Degrading?
- •Memorable performance art actions and artworks
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise
- •5. We live in a very sick society in which rudeness, sadism and sex have all become commodities. We have become a society of barbarians who love to be entertained by vulgarians. Steve Allen
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Kurt Vonnegut Interview
- •Ex 2. Make up an imaginary interview in the target language. (use questions stated below if necessary)
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Краткий реферативный перевод второй статьи
- •Section 2. Article
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training
- •1. Athletic Performance Is a Mental Game
- •2. Robbery Foiled By Gun-Toting us Pensioner
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Краткий реферативный перевод третьей статьи
- •Section 2. Article
- •Is science a boon to human life?
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Составьте обзорное ессе по выбранной тематике с выражением собственного мнения по данному вопросу на языке оригинала
- •Section 1. Перевод реалий
- •Section 2. Article
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Sight Translation
- •Ex 3. Translate a sentence and ask your partner to restore the original phrase. Check up the correctness of translation.
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting Hawking highlights
- •4. If you were a young physicist just starting out today, what would you study?
- •5. What do you think most about during the day?
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Оформите задание 1
- •Book 1 Portfolio
- •How to improve your memory
- •1. Astana: The world's weirdest capital city
- •2. Mexican police arrest officer suspected in airport shooting
- •3. Texas man finds his car 42 years after it was stolen
- •4. Why we should look to the Arctic
- •350 Injured on bloodiest day of Yemen uprising
- •Afghan government minister accused of hampering fight against insurgents
- •Text 6 Бойтесь Вашингтона с его благожелательностью
- •Text 10 а может, замолвим несколько добрых слов о России?
- •Interview 1
- •Interview 2
- •Interview 3
- •Interview 4
- •Interview 5
- •Interview 6 Полный текст эксклюзивного интервью Сергея Лаврова
- •Appendix 1
- •Ex1. Phonetic shadowing with/without text support
- •7. First ‘honest African leader’ prize given
- •8. South Korea loses national treasure in fire
- •10. British Museum to get bigger
- •11. Models under 16 banned in London
- •12. Calls to Punish Bad Language in Football
- •13. Olympic Security ceo Admits "Shambles"
- •14. Un calls for death penalty abolition
- •15. Divorce is bad for the environment
- •16.Uk plans huge wind farm programme
- •17. Afternoon naps increase risk of stroke
- •18. Museum of Laziness opens in Colombia
- •19. 10,000 Germ Species In/On Our Body
- •20. Learn In Your Sleep, Researchers Say
- •Work in pairs or groups
- •2. Putin is ‘Time’ magazine’s person of 2007
- •2. Person of the year survey
- •12. Calls to Punish Bad Language in Football
- •4. Four-letter language survey
- •14. Un calls for death penalty abolition
- •3. Death penalty survey
- •Appendix 2
- •9. Диремы с формальным подлежащим
- •Appendix 3
- •Appendix 4 keys to Section 1
- •Keys to Section 9 “Written translation”
- •Keys to Section 4 “Memory Exercise"
- •Appendix 5
- •Структурные трансформации
Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training
Ex. 1. Training in obstacle conditions. Read the text and comprehend it despite the obstacle conditions creating by your partner (for example, by counting aloud). Take turns. Give short Russian translation.
1. Athletic Performance Is a Mental Game
More and more one hears that such and such an elite athlete has hired a sports psychologist to help improve performance. An experiment that has been performed in many universities is the one in which the team, often a basketball team, is divided into three equal groups. The first group is told to do absolutely nothing connected with their sport. They are told to stay off the court. The second group is instructed to physically practice throwing hoops for an hour per day. The third group is instructed to spend an hour each day imagining themselves throwing hoops. At the end of the allotted time all three teams were assessed for improvements in sinking hoops. The results in all cases were the same. Those told to stay off the court showed no improvement, or even a poorer performance, those who practiced physically improved by approximately 25% and those who just imagined throwing hoops had improved by 23%.
2. Robbery Foiled By Gun-Toting us Pensioner
A courageous pensioner has foiled two American teenagers' attempt at an armed robbery in a dramatic incident caught on CCTV. The 19-year-olds burst into an internet cafe in Florida - one armed with a gun and the other with a baseball bat - and began holding up customers. But the pair had not reckoned with 71-year-old Samuel Williams, who leapt from behind his computer screen and began firing at them with his own pistol. The duo fled and tumbled over each other as he continued firing - before both were arrested for attempted armed robbery. Police said Mr Williams held a concealed firearms licence and Bill Gladson of the Marion County State Attorney's Office said the shooting appeared justified.
3. Divorce ceremonies pick up in Japan after disaster
Ceremonies to celebrate divorces have gained momentum in Japan. The ceremony to mark a couple's transition to being single again costs 55,000 yen (423 pounds), includes a buffet meal and culminates with the ritual smashing of their wedding rings with a gavel. The ceremony also includes a "divorce dress," Designer Akiue Go said he created the dress with emphasis on the back for a specific reason. "I designed this dress so the woman's back looks the most beautiful when she turns around and walks away," he said. Hiroki Terai, a 31-year-old former salesman, spotted a gap in the market and pioneered the divorce ceremony two years ago. Since then, he's celebrated more than 80 break-ups. Requests for the ceremony have tripled since the March 11 9.0 magnitude quake set off a massive tsunami.
Section 7. Sample Translation
Train yourself in sight translation from Russian into English. Time of text presentation should be no more than 2 minutes.
Почему из кенийцев получаются такие хорошие бегуны ("The Atlantic ", США) |
Why Kenyans Make Such Great Runners |
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Западные исследования природы кенийских бегунов и вообще успешных африканских атлетов осложняются особенно щекотливой расовой политикой. Статистику трудно игнорировать. Страна среднего размера с населением в 41 миллион доминирует в мировых соревнованиях по бегу. Выберите любое состязание по бегу на длинные дистанции. Вы обнаружите, что около 70 или 80% ее победителей с конца 1980-ых, когда восточноафриканское питание и технологии начали догонять западные, были из Кении. Еще более удивительно то, что три четверти кенийских чемпионов принадлежат этническому меньшинству, численность которого всего 4,4 миллиона, или 0,06% мирового населения. Два отдельных исследования, проведенных европейцами в небольшом регионе в западной Кении, в котором родилось большинство победителей состязаний, обнаружили, что молодые люди там могут, потренировавшись всего нескольких месяцев, стабильно побеждать в соревнованиях некоторых лучших профессиональных бегунов с Запада. Другими словами, у них, казалось, было некое физическое преимущество, которое характерно для их сообщества - что делает его, вероятно, генетическим. |
Western research on the nature of Kenyan runners, and on successful African athletes in general, is complicated by some particularly thorny racial politics.The statistics are hard to ignore. This medium-size country of 41 million dominates the world in competitive running. Pick any long-distance race. You'll often find that up to about 70 or 80 percent of its winners since the late 1980s, when East African nutrition and technology started catching up with the West, have been from Kenya. And even more amazing is that three-fourths of the Kenyan champions come from an ethnic minority of 4.4. million, or 0.06% of global population. Two separate, European-led studies in a small region in western Kenya, which produces most of the race-winners, found that young men there could, with only a few months training, reliably outperform some of the West's best professional runners. In other words, they appeared to have a physical advantage that is common to their community, making it probably genetic.
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Исследователи обнаружили существенные различия в индексе массы тела и структуре костей между западными профессионалами и кенийскими любителями, которые обошли их в соревнованиях. У обследованных кенийцев была меньшая масса тела для их роста, более длинные ноги, более короткие туловища и более тонкие конечности. Один из исследователей сказал, что физические особенности кенийцев «сходны с птичьими», отметив, что эти черты делают их более эффективными бегунами, особенно на большие расстояния. Исследователи обнаружили у них более высокое количество эритроцитов и в своих выводах исследователи подчеркнули «птичье строение ног», что делает бег менее энергозатратным и придает шагу исключительную эффективность. Удивительным образом, популярные западные книги, посвященные теме успеха кенийцев в беге, меньше сосредотачиваются на этих генетических различиях, а больше на культурных. (кенийцы становятся великими бегунами, потому что, они все время тренируются, бегая в деревнях за своими овцами, потому что бегают босиком, потому что едят «простую еду») Еще одним аргументом является то, что многие лучшие бегуны Кении родом из солнечной гористой местности в Восточно-Африканской рифтовой долине. Большая высота над уровнем моря - приблизительно 7000 футов - возможно, помогает местным бегунам развить легкие, которые нормально функционируют в более разреженном воздухе. |
The studies found significant differences in body mass index and bone structure between the Western pros and the Kenyan amateurs who had bested them. The studied Kenyans had less mass for their height, longer legs, shorter torsos, and more slender limbs. One of the researchers described the Kenyan physical differences as "bird-like," noting that these traits would make them more efficient runners, especially over long distances. Researchers observed a higher number of red blood cells and in their conclusions, emphasized the "bird-like legs" that make running less energy-intensive and give their stride exceptional efficiency.
Surprisingly, Western popular writing about Kenyans' running success seems to focus less on these genetic distinctions and more on cultural differences. (they get practice running as they chase their sheep across the countryside, they run barefoot, they have "simple food") Another argument notes that many of Kenya's best runners come from the sunny highlands in the Great Rift Valley. The high elevation -- about 7,000 feet -- could help runners here develop lungs capable of functioning in thinner air.
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Разговоры о том, как хороши африканские атлеты, могут иметь нехорошие последствия в западном мире. Период американского рабства был частично оправдан аргументами, что африканцы были «специально созданы» для физического труда, а белые - для труда умственного; эти идеи еще сохранились в американском патернализме и расизме до сегодняшнего дня. Западные авторы пишут о «черных генах скорости», а кениец Кип Кеино (Kip Keino), выигравший золотую медаль на Олимпийских играх, осуждает подобные исследования как расистское. Бег, как любой другой спорт, является физическим трудом, и спортивный успех формируют физические особенности. То, что у Ларри Берда (Larry Bird) и Майкла Джордана (Michael Jordan) высокий рост, не означает, что они не являются, прежде всего, великими атлетами. Олимпиец Майкл Фелпс (Michael Phelps) своими рекордами по плаванию частично обязан своей необычной фигуре, генетически врожденной: нельзя удлинить руки с помощью тренировок. Все атлеты частично обязаны своим успехом собственным физическим особенностям, но так как бегуны Календжин имеют определенные черты, общие для их этнической группы, и так как эта этническая группа - часть истории колониализма и белой эксплуатации чернокожих, то эту тему труднее обсуждать. Однако это не делает их атлетичность менее удивительной. |
Talking about the greatness of African athletes can be fraught in the Western world. Generations of American slavery were justified in part by arguments that Africans were "specialized" for physical labor, and whites for mental work, ideas that have persisted in American paternalism and racism through today. Westerners write about the "black speed genes," and Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winner Kip Keino condemns the research as racist. Running, like any sport, is inherently physical, and physical traits inform athletic success. Just because Larry Bird and Michael Jordan are tall doesn't mean they aren't first and foremost great athletes. Part of Olympian Michael Phelps' record-breaking swimming is his unusual body shape, which is genetically inborn; you can't train for longer arms. All athletes owe some of their success to their own physical traits, but because Kalenjin runners share those traits across an ethnic group, and because that ethnic group is part of the story of colonialism and white exploitation of blacks for their physical labor, it's harder to talk about. But that doesn't make their athleticism any less amazing.
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