Obstacles Of Listening Comprehension In Chinese-Russian Consecutive Interpreting And The Solutions

As the first and essential step in interpreting,listening comprehension often impacts the following steps in the process,and finally determines the quality of consecutive interpretation.Therefore,it is important for interpreters to find out and overcome the obstacles standing in the way of accurate and efficient listening comprehension.From the perspective of a native Russian speaker,the author focuses on the obstacles of listening comprehension in Chinese-Russian interpretation,based on an analysis of the author's consecutive interpreting practice during the mock conference of Xi Jinping's keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Asian Civilization Dialogue Conference.This paper begins with an introduction to the nature of listening comprehension,followed by its characteristics in interpreting,and then discusses the significance of solving the listening comprehension problem by expounding its impact on interpretaion from Chinese into Russian.In the case study,the paper analizes the errors caused by listening comprehension obstacles encountered in the author's practice during the mock conference,including language barriers of vocabulary,syntactic structure,and discourse,as well as non-language barriers of background knowledge,situational and psychological factors.After that,the author proposes several corresponding solutions to overcome these obstacles,which include getting fully prepared using both linguistic and non-verbal knowledge,and mastering inference skills and predictive ability.The author hopes to share the interpretation practice experience in this paper and help other interpreters to solve the problem of listening comprehension in the Chinese-Russian interpreting process.