The Mock Consecutive Interpretation Report On Obama’s Speech In Fudan University

In the report, the writer chose an English speech made by Obama at FudanUniversity in2009as the material for the consecutive interpretation practice. Andthe writer takes some problems that occurred during the consecutive interpretationprocess as example for analysis to find, corresponding interpretation strategiesfor such kind of speech.The report includes four parts: task description, procedure description, caseanalysis and conclusion.The task description and procedure description give a brief introduction of thetask and make a detailed description of the overall translation practice process. Thecase analysis part is the essence of this report, using the recordings of theinterpretation as the study object. This part covers some typical problems the writerencountered in the whole process. These problems relates to listening,distinguishing, transforming and expressing. Of the listening problems, the writercannot grasp quickly the main structures of the sentence or predict the speechcontents. The writer also meets some difficulties in transforming sentence structureand word meaning. In terms of expressing problems, the writer may overlook someinformation and can not express fluently what the speaker meant. Theinterpretation strategy the writer concluded is also stated. In the summary andconclusion part, the writer summaries the problems in the whole process of theinterpretation and provides some helpful suggestions. In the following interpretingpractices, the writer should learn to grasp the main structures of the sentence,catch the main information and the key words in a sentence. To solve the problemsin transforming part, the writer should know the differences of the two language insentence structure and master the transforming rules between Chinese and English.In the expression part, the writer should pay attention to such expression skill aspause, coherence and logic.