Noting sooner or later

THEME 25
Theoretical Part
NOTING SOONER OR LATER
Interpreting requires a good memory. But no matter how strong yours is, it is still easy to forget important details. And that’s especially true when you need to interpret larger chunks of speech. Fortunately, there are plenty of note-taking methods that can help you recall details and dialog.
Note-taking is very useful for consecutive translation. Notetaking is an additional work for the interpreter in doing consecutive translation. Note-taking must be directed to the semantic points of the speech. This task is done by fixing the information with the help of symbols. The symbols are worked out and improved by the interpreters themselves in the process of their work. Note-taking is not obstrusion. The interpreter may create his own list of symbols. The main point is that the note-taking must be understandable to the interpreter. “During consecutive interpreting the speaker stops every 1-5 minutes (usually at the end of every “paragraph” or complete thought) and the interpreter then steps into render what was said into the target language. A key skill involved in consecutive interpreting is note-taking, since few people can memorize a full paragraph in one hearing without loss of detail. But interpreter’s notes are very different from those of, say, a stenographer, because writing down words in the source language makes the interpreter’s job harder when he has to translate the speech into the target language”.
Sometimes interpreters work out their own symbol which allows them to take down not the words, but the thoughts of the speaker in a sort of language-independent form. Then the interpreter’s output is more idiomatic and less source-language bound. During pronouncing the speech the interpreter writes the main points of the speakers' speech. This kind of work is called a note taking, The symbols must be economical, i.e. words which are Ncnutnticully close to each other may be marked by one symbol. К or exHinple: Symbol “ о “ -may be used for “yig‘ilish, majlis, unjumun, kongress, forum, seminar, uchrashuv, kengash, sessiya, ussambleya, simpozium, konferentsiya, sektsiya, muzokaraand others; “-o-“ hamkorlik, shartnoma, kelishuv, bitirn, о ‘zaro aloqa, о 'zaro ta’sir, do 'stlik, birdamlik, о‘zaro yordam, hamjihatiik, ikki tomonlama rozilik, and others.
When the instructor says, “This is important” get it exactly and * (mark it). Get a reference to the text or other source if you can. Faster writing also must be practiced. One way to do this is to write abbreviations for words. An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word used when writing to represent the complete word. You must be able to recognize the complete word from its abbreviation.
You can form your own abbreviation for just about any word. Here are three ways you can do this.

1. 
   Write just the beginning of a long word. Here are some examples of long words that have been abbreviated by writing just the beginning of the word: