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Student Sharing – SI Student Intern in Campus – LAM, Tak Nok Harry
| It's been almost a year since my first SI job on campus, and this journey is fascinating! From staff briefing sessions to college assemblies and formal meetings, these SI jobs have equipped me with practical experiences that I would never have gained in the classroom. |
| I've taken a few interpreting courses before, but SI in the real world could be very different. While we mostly get the presentation slides or the meeting documents, there could still be a lot of information that we need to prepare, for example some other movies by the same director in a post-screening talk. Preparation time is usually limited, particularly when the documents are confidential, but since SI interpreters work in pairs, it's always teamwork. Although it's impossible to be "fully prepared" as an interpreter, research and communication are indeed useful. |
| I also had a taste of "expect the unexpected" which I had heard of in lessons. We're trained to use professional equipment in SI booths, but we may not even have a booth in real life. It's also common that the speakers don't follow their scripts, but it's most important to remain professional and do our best under any circumstances, even when the speaker starts singing in Hakka. |
| All in all, the SI student intern experience is not only a way of putting classroom knowledge into practice, but also a very unique part of my university life as a translation major student. |
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