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Interpreters & Interrupters
RING OF FIRE 4 - Interpreting Practice
Ring of Fire is a weekly terminology practice session for all levels of interpreters, students, new and seasoned, and can be used for all languages, including ASL.
In this practice:
Medical Category
Range of Motion, Insomnia, Coronary Calcium Scan, Aseptic, Septic, Colitis, Nurse Case Manager, Pap Smear Pap is actually an abbreviation for Papanicolaou; Heart Failure, Bariatric Surgery.
Legal Category
Mitigation, Parole, Proceedings, Guilty Plea, Probation, Preliminary Hearing, Proffer, Pretrial Hearing, Pretrial Services, Refrain From, Trespassing,
General Category
Onset, Smoke Detector, Forwarding Address, Disclose, Balance, Shortage, Available Spaces, Billing, Refinance, Escrow.
The Ring of Fire.
MARITZA:Welcome to the Ring of Fire, a weekly terminology practice session for interpreters of all levels. Ring of Fire can be used for all languages, including ASL. Thanks for joining me. I'm your host, Maritza. I'll be reading terms from three categories, medical, legal, and general. To practice, listen to the terms and interpret. If you don't know a term, add it to your glossary. Nobody knows all the words, so take your time. Feel free to press pause after each term. I leave 10 seconds between terms. Before your next interpreting session, read the new terms you added to your glossary. As you read, your brain will memorize the terms. There's no need in memorizing long lists of words. It's time consuming boring, and definitely not fun. When the term comes up when you're interpreting, your brain will recall it. You'll find the list of the words in the episode description. Download or bookmark the practice for future use. Let's get started. Medical category. Range of motion. Insomnia. Coronary calcium scan. Aseptic. Septic. Colitis. Nurse case manager. Pap smear Pap is actually an abbreviation for Papa Nico Lao. Heart failure. Bariatric surgery. Legal category. Mitigation. Parole. Proceedings. Guilty plea. Probation. Preliminary hearing. Proffer. Pre trial hearing. Pre trial services. Refrain from, trespassing, general category, onset, smoke detector, forwarding address, disclose, balance, shortage, Available spaces. Billing. Refinance. Escrow. How did you do? Too difficult? Too easy? How many terms did you add to your glossary? And now, the bonus. When we're interpreting, sometimes we encounter frozen text. These are phrases that are repeated several times in a conversation, or in different calls or sessions. Sometimes the agency that you work for will give you a script. The script will belong to one of their clients and it will have the frozen text. This will help you translate the frozen text if it's not already translated, and when that particular client comes about and they use the script, you can just read it from your script that you've already translated. Let's get started. I hereby release my medical team of any liability that may occur. Have you ever had any of the following conditions? Are you allergic to any medication? Please provide your best estimate of your monthly income. This call may be monitored or recorded for quality or training purposes. XYC Company is a debt collection agency. Any information obtained in this call will be used for those purposes. Thanks for joining me. Tune in next week for the next Ring of Fire.
