French Interpreting Practice. Level 3

Author: Cai Xiaohong
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: In the compilation of "Practical French Interpretation (Level 3)," the authors not only took "Practical English Interpretation (Level 3)" as a blueprint, primarily referencing its writing model and thematic content, but also placed greater emphasis on the fundamental principles and skills of interpretation training.
1. Strive to select authentic interpretation texts as materials.
2. Adapt written materials as much as possible into spoken discourse.
3. Even in the "Single-Sentence Translation" exercises designed for exam preparation, the authors made every effort to choose sentences that are both structurally complete and convey full communicative meaning, such as idiomatic expressions, slogans, and common phrases.
4. The "English-Chinese Mutual Translation" and "Text Interpretation" sections from "Practical English Interpretation (Level 3)" were revised to "Dialogue Interpretation" and "Discourse Interpretation," aiming to highlight the oral expression characteristics of discourse.
The cognitive process of interpretation mainly consists of three stages: logical comprehension, conceptual memory, and communicative expression, each relying on a series of related skills. The logical comprehension stage primarily depends on techniques such as source language information reception, analysis and induction, and predictive reasoning. To this end, each unit's "Interpretation Practice" is paired with listening completion exercises, and each unit's interpretation discourse is accompanied by audio recordings.