Protocol Routine

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Protocol Routine

• Unit One

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Unit Objectives

• After studying this unit, you should
• understand what and how to prepare for the
  interpreting tasks in the long run.
• find ways to improve your interpreting skills and
  performance.
• master the basic words and expressions about
  protocol routine.
• know some cultural background knowledge about
  protocol routine.

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Preparing --Warm-up Exercises

• How do you usually prepare for a reception task?
• Is preparation necessary in interpreting? Why/Why
  not?
• What and how shall an interpreter prepare for a
  reception-interpreting task?
• What kind of interpreting skills do you think an
  interpreter should master?

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Preparing --Skills Presentation

• Two Types of Pre-interpreting Preparation
• Long-term Preparation
• Short-term Preparation
• What and How to Prepare in the Long Run
• What to Prepare?
• How to Prepare?

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Preparing --Phrases Interpreting

• English to Chinese
• Recover from the jet lag
• Thoughtful Arrangement
• Hospitability
• Souvenir
• Accommodations
• Claim baggage
• Proceed through the customs
• Itinerary
• Farewell speech
• Adjust to the time difference

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Preparing --Phrases Interpreting

• Chinese to English
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1. to hold a banquet in honor of.
2. to bid farewell to .
3. Come all the way to.
4. After you!
5. I have long been looking forward to meeting you.
6. a welcoming address
7. to pay tribute to .
8. Looking back
9. Looking ahead
10. Take care!

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Preparing --Sentences Interpreting

• English to Chinese
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• ??,???????????,?????,??????ABC????????
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Preparing --Sentences Interpreting

• B. Chinese to English
• 1. Mr. Smith, Im very happy to welcome you
  and all the other members of your delegation to
  our country. We hope youll have a pleasant visit
  here.
• 2. As a Chinese saying goes, Isnt it a
  great pleasure to have friends coming from afar?
  
• 3. Allow me to express our warm welcome and
  cordial greetings to our distinguished guests
  coming from afar.
• 4. I hope you will be frank with us and give
  whatever opinions and suggestions you may have in
  regard to the tentative schedule. Well see what
  we can do to meet your wishes.
• 5. You are welcome to visit us again any
  time. Our door is always open to friends.

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Performing --Decoding (Note-taking)
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Performing --Memorizing
(Story-retelling)

• Listen to the recordings of Text A again. Try to
  catch more details and improve your notes. Then
  retell the speech in your own words with the help
  of your notes.

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Performing --Encoding (Message Reconstructing)

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Performing --Coordinating (Field
Interpreting)

• sales representative
• International Business Department
• claim luggage
• parking lot
• non-stop flight
• The jet lag will catch up with me tomorrow.
• in that case
• recover from jet lag
• the Cantonese gourmet
• Splendid China

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Packaging --Interpreting and
Assessment

1. come all the way to see me off
2. Have you checked in?
3. go through customs
4. I hope it will remind you of me and of our
   friendship.
5. I appreciate very much everything youve done for
   me.
6. A thousand miles a person can see off a friend,
   but he has no choice but to say good-bye in the
   end.

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Packaging --Interpreting and
Assessment
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Packaging -- Feedback and Comments
Aims of this Unit Students Feedback
Teachers Comments The candidate has met
the standard, knowledge and skill
requirements. Candidates ___________________
Date ___________________ Assessor
____________________ Date
___________________
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Assignment --Simulation Exercises

• Work in groups. Role-play the following
  situations with your partners, acting as the
  Chinese speaker, English speaker and the
  interpreter respectively. One group will be
  invited to perform in class.

Situation A You are the receptionist of AR
Company. A visitor, Mr. Carl Smith, has an
appointment with the General Manager, John Lewis,
but he is in a meeting at the moment. You receive
the visitor and start a conversation with him.
You speak Chinese while Carl is an
English-speaker.
Situation B You are Assistant Manager of Company
Nike. Go to the airport to welcome Peter
ODonnell, a trainee manager in the head office
in New York. Greet him, introduce yourself and
make a small talk. On the way to the hotel,
introduce the city and some places of interest.
You speak Chinese while Peter is an
English-speaker.
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Points to Remember

• A well-prepared interpreter is usually confident
  and relaxed and an experienced interpreter never
  stops preparing for the interpreting tasks.
• Interpreters must continually work to improve
  their mastery of basic linguistic and
  interpreting skills command of general and
  subject knowledge and a strong cross-cultural
  awareness.
• It is advisable for the trainees to keep on
  practicing interpreting, reading widely and
  learning to collect and summarize what has been
  learned.