Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, and marketing.Before we get any further: this is episode 3 of 3 on this particular subject, so please listen to episodes 1 and 2, if you haven't done so already.In this episode, I talk about activating formal vocabulary in your B language.Here are some of the exercises I suggest:selecting 5 or 10 formal words (verbs, nouns, adjectives), researching them in a dictionary and collocations dictionary, and inventing example sentences to anchor them in your memory.preparing a speech of your own in your B language, and incorporating some of the formal words you've chosen.preparing a speech of your own in your B language incorporating formal features (for example, a speech at an inauguration or prize-giving ceremony).choosing a suitable text in your B language, such as a blog post, and rewriting it to make it more formal.choosing a suitable speech in your B language and doing a simultaneous reformulation exercise, making the speech more formal.Let me know what you'd like me to talk about next! Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)Support the showMy website and blog: https://theinterpretingcoach.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/interpretingcoach/Twitter: @terpcoachLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-interpreting-coach/Or email me at [email protected]

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