Newcomers to interpreting
The language is there; memory, note-taking and holding a long stretch are not yet.
TRIS · School
Consecutive interpreting course
In consecutive interpreting the interpreter is visible: standing beside the speaker, where bearing shapes not only the content but the course of the meeting.
Who it is for
Who the course suits
Those accompanying delegations
Negotiations, site visits, official missions — work where the interpreter is in full view.
Translators
The first step into interpreting: consecutive gives the base the booth is built on.
Content
What we teach
Note-taking
Your own system of symbols: neither shorthand nor summary, but a support for memory that still reads five minutes later.
Memory
Holding a two to three minute stretch, catching the structure of a thought, not losing a list of seven items.
Numbers, names, titles
What gets lost most often and is noticed at once: sums, dates, positions, organisation names.
Working with a speaker
How to ask for a pause, how to stop someone speaking for ten minutes straight, how to check without derailing the meeting.
Etiquette and the limits of the role
Where the interpreter conveys meaning, and where they are asked to advise — and why the second is not their job.
Delivery
Voice, pace, eye contact, what to do with your hands: in consecutive work this is part of the job, not a detail.
Format
How the classes run
Taught by practitioners
Classes are led by interpreters who work at real events, not only talk about them.
Small groups
Everyone has to take their own turns, not watch others take theirs.
Material from real events
Talks with real delivery, interruptions and terminology, not polished teaching texts.
Programme status
The programme is being updated
Enrolment is paused while we revise the content and the method for the way the profession works today. Once the programme is ready we will write to everyone who left their details.
Application
Would you like to study at the TRIS translation school?
Leave a request — we will add you to our list of interested applicants and write once the updated programme is ready. Tell us about your experience, education and what you are looking for: it helps us form groups and take your needs into account in the new programme.