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IW 134: Interview Sharon N-Solow Part 1: CIT - Cracking Open the Interpreter's Head
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IW 134: Interview Sharon N-Solow Part 1: CIT - Cracking Open the Interpreter's Head
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00:00:02 Tim
Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. Wherever you are, this is the Interpreter's Workshop podcast. I'm Tim Curry, your host. Here we talk everything sign language interpreting the ins, the outs, the ups, the downs, the sideways of interpreting. If you're a student, a new interpreter, experienced interpreter, this is the place for you. If you want to know more, go to interpretersworkshop.com.
00:00:28 Tim
Let's start talking... interpreting.
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00:00:34 Tim
And now the quote of the day by American actor James Dean.
00:00:40 Tim
“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”
00:00:47 Tim
Every moment is now, living the moment, being in the moment.
00:00:53 Tim
We've all heard it. The philosophy of not worrying about the future.
00:00:59 Tim
Not thinking about the past and dwelling there, but being here now gives us new meaning.
00:01:08 Tim
It definitely works for interpreters.
00:01:10 Tim
To be ready now, to be in the moment.
00:01:14 Tim
To understand what is happening right now. Today, we revisit a wonderful guest we've had in the past, Sharon Neumann Solow.
00:01:26 Tim
She describes to us her experience at the Conference of CIT, which is an organization known as the Conference of Interpreter Trainers.
00:01:37 Tim
We learn a little bit more about Sharon, about CIT, and how that impacts the sign language interpreter profession, especially in the US.
00:01:49 Tim
And we'll be talking in the next couple of episodes more about her impact…
00:01:55 Tim
That's Sharon's impact on our profession with a new book that she has coming out very soon.
00:02:04 Tim
So, let's meet Sharon again and feel the love, the laughter, the wisdom from an old friend. Let's get started.
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00:02:18 Tim
Well, here we are visiting someone we've already talked to on the podcast. We're here to find out what's happening now.
00:02:27 Tim
My guest is an educator, a mentor and an author, which we'll hear about later.
00:02:33 Tim
And she's a friend to many throughout the world. She is a pioneer from the sign language interpreting profession in the US, and has definitely sparked imagination, inspiration and excitement in our profession, so please welcome back to the podcast…
00:02:52 Tim
Sharon Neumann Solow.
00:02:54 Sharon
Hi, thank you.
00:02:55 Sharon
What a lovely introduction.
00:02:56 Sharon
Thank you.
00:02:57 Tim
Welcome, Sharon. Recently there was a conference in U.S. called CIT.
00:03:04 Tim
The organization is called the Conference of Interpreter Trainers.
00:03:09 Tim
I believe it was started around 1979 was the first conference, and of course probably started before then.
00:03:16 Tim
Can you explain to those of us who have never gone to this conference what is this conference about?
00:03:23 Tim
Who is it for and what impact is it making on the profession?
00:03:28 Sharon
The conference was…
00:03:32 Sharon
…born of a group of people who were in the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, RID in the US.
00:03:40 Sharon
Who were starting to do some training of interpreters, but we didn't have a lot of resources and connections with each other were sparse.
00:03:52 Sharon
Would meet at the RID Convention, for example.
00:03:56 Tim
Mm-hmm.
00:03:57 Sharon
So, we decided to create a separate organization for educators and that was unfortunately, labeled Conference of Interpreter Trainers.
00:04:09 Sharon
Unfortunately, in the sense that we go to conferences regularly, but the group is not a conference, but oh well.
00:04:18 Sharon
So, our most recent conference or convention was very, very recently in Berkeley, CA and the organization has as its intent and mission and, and goals, to bring together people who teach interpretation.
00:04:38 Sharon
In our case, it's mostly… there are a few spoken language interpreters who are interested in this organization, but almost all of us are signed language interpreter educators.
00:04:50 Sharon
And some of those are from other countries as well.
00:04:54 Sharon
To bring us together, to help us share… In the early days, it was just to share what we were doing and what resources we had. It was a very spare time in our resource world, we had very little going on in terms of a library or a bibliography or any research or anything like that.
00:05:19 Sharon
It was very little. And so, CIT also has really fostered more research and additions to the resource pool.
00:05:32 Sharon
So that's been another piece of what they do.
00:05:36 Sharon
And I think networking has still remained one of the central foci, one of the central things we focus on in CIT, this conference that we just attended, it was astonishing how, how little anybody breathed. We just…
00:05:52 Sharon
…or ate or drank…
00:05:54 Sharon
We just talked to each other all the time.
00:05:57 Sharon
And talk, I mean by that we signed because the official language of CIT is American Sign Language.
00:06:06 Sharon
So, we just, people caught up personally and professionally, but over the years what we have found is that now we have easier access to one another.
00:06:18 Sharon
That I would say that’s a huge gift that the CIT has given us.
00:06:22 Tim
So, I want to go back to the beginning of the conference, conferences or conventions of CIT.
00:06:28 Tim
When you first got together normally at a conference, you would have, say, a keynote speaker.
00:06:33 Tim
You would have some presentations on research maybe, or on how to improve a certain skills. So you have a workshop on that. Those sorts of things, the new things that are happening.
00:06:44 Tim
How did that work with the first few conventions, since there really wasn't any research or, or resources at that time?
00:06:53 Sharon
They were so few people were… there were… We'd have, typically, had keynote and endnote speeches for each conference.
00:07:03 Sharon
I think we did all the way back at the beginning as well.
00:07:07 Sharon
Uh…
00:07:08 Sharon
And it was a very small group at the in the early stages and I would say the way it was organized is that people would come and share their wisdom.
00:07:23 Sharon
So, for example, some people were sharing research they had done or things they had learned regarding spoken language interpreting or cognitive processes or spoken language models.
00:07:41 Sharon
Very few, but some of the models that had come to us out of the spoken language field, but at that time we weren't very tuned into the spoken language field.
00:07:51 Sharon
Most of us, if you know it was a pretty, was a pretty rare thing that those things came up, however…
00:07:58 Sharon
What we did was a lot of workshops where we would sit down and share.
00:08:02 Sharon
I think we used to call them share shops.
00:08:04 Sharon
We would sit in a room.
00:08:07 Sharon
And we would all bring things we did, exercises we did, materials we used, and discuss how to approach the task.
00:08:17 Sharon
I think people were even then, you know, we're starting to…
00:08:22 Sharon
…try to become more objective, less subjective, but in the early days of education, interpreter education, I would say it was very common for the trainer to simply be operating off their opinion of best practices, not necessarily any kind of researched or evidence based best practices.
00:08:46 Tim
For me, that experiential discussion or conversation usually leads to questions.
00:08:53 Tim
Well, I see this.
00:08:55 Tim
Why do you see that?
00:08:56 Tim
And then you start coming to the why's and maybe what's behind it, which also leads people to think of new research questions and so forth.
00:09:03 Tim
Obviously, there's a place for, for that.
00:09:06 Sharon
Absolutely. I think that we had the early influence of the linguistics, uh, researchers who were very fascinated with the interpreting process and some of whom had come out of a background where they at least, maybe it wasn't their background, but they became interpreters or they were interpreters and they brought that academic perspective pretty early in the game. Now that I think of it.
00:09:35 Sharon
I remember Charlotte Baker Schenk, who was one of the authors of early ASL books by she and Dennis Cokely.
00:09:44 Sharon
And we were sitting in the lobby of the hotel or Conference Center, where some CIT conference was happening.
00:09:53 Sharon
And she said if I could crack your brain open and see what you do, that would make me so happy.
00:10:01 Sharon
And I thought, not me. [both chuckling]
00:10:04 Sharon
But I totally got it.
00:10:06 Sharon
We don’t...
00:10:06 Sharon
We… even now we, we struggle to understand the magic of what we do.
00:10:12 Sharon
But back then, we had very little to guide our thinking about what it was we were doing and why something was effective and something else less so.
00:10:23 Tim
I know we've had discussions before where we think about this is the way I would interpret something, but then you see someone else come up with some interpretation, some product that is amazingly good for this concept and I would not have thought of that.
00:10:40 Tim
That's where I think it's, it's hard to figure out why.
00:10:44 Tim
How did that person come to this conclusion of the concept? And I came at it a different way.
00:10:52 Tim
Is it my background or is it the way my brain works compared to their brain that we may never know that?
00:11:00 Tim
But that makes sense why you would want to crack open the head and take a look.
00:11:04 Sharon
Well, there's also the challenge that I would add is, is it the way you think?
00:11:09 Sharon
Is it the way I think?
00:11:11 Sharon
Is it the way we were taught?
00:11:13 Sharon
And that's the piece that the conference should, that CIT should and tries to look at is, are we teaching the most effective or among the most effective approaches to the task.
00:11:31 Sharon
I'm going to give you a weird example.
00:11:35 Sharon
I mentored a wonderful woman who is an interpreter and her training…
00:11:42 Sharon
In my opinion, really limited her at the beginning until she could change some serious habits because she had been taught something that's called the Gish method, which in theory it, it makes some sense.
00:11:58 Sharon
Know if you can't catch everything.
00:12:01 Sharon
Catch the big pieces.
00:12:02 Sharon
That's my very scientific description of the model.
00:12:06 Sharon
And she had habituated not giving any detail because she had been trained in this model according to her.
00:12:17 Sharon
I mean. I don't know what her real situation was.
00:12:19 Sharon
But it was a beautiful…
00:12:21 Sharon
In fact, I'm using one she, but this is actually been several people I've worked with.
00:12:27 Sharon
And as a result, she didn't have the habit of really striving to do every detail possible and that in my opinion a stellar interpreter is getting every single little thing in because we don't know what's little. We don't know what's important.
00:12:50 Sharon
And it's not our business to decide that in a way.
00:12:53 Sharon
I mean, of course we have to in our work have to kind of decide what's important. But I just mean.
00:12:59 Sharon
Her habit had become to discard anything that wasn't a primary point.
00:13:07 Sharon
So, there you go.
00:13:08 Sharon
That's not her thinking.
00:13:10 Sharon
Well, it is her thinking now, but her thinking was molded by her training. And so anyway, I wanted to add that that.
00:13:19 Sharon
Think that's the, that we would be fascinated to study too.
00:13:24 Tim
That's fascinating that you say that because I've also taught many of the models from Cokely, Gish, Colonomos, and so forth.
00:13:33 Tim
But I would never have thought that someone would take it to the point where, well.
00:13:36 Tim
Just go for the, the top layers, and always throw out the bottom. Huh…
00:13:42 Sharon
Yeah, I don't.
00:13:43 Sharon
I have to admit I don't mean that, that’s how she was taught. [Tim: right]
00:13:46 Sharon
I mean, that's what she took away. [Tim: hmm] That’s what she learned in her, you know, and learning and teaching don't always completely overlap.
00:13:56 Sharon
So, I don't know what she was taught. [Tim: yeah]
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00:13:58 Tim
And what were you taught?
00:14:01 Tim
Were you taught to support others who support you?
00:14:04 Tim
Well, that's good because in the show notes, just click on Support the Show or Buy Me a Coffee.
00:14:10 Tim
Thank you.
00:14:11 Tim
Now let's go back.
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00:14:15 Tim
There's two things I want to get back to one just for posterity.
00:14:20 Tim
Can you remember some of the names of these first pioneers who were giving their wisdom, who were giving keynote or endnote speeches?
00:14:31 Sharon
Umm.
00:14:33 Sharon
I, I remember…
00:14:35 Sharon
Uh, I’ve forgotten the other person's name, but the two people who founded CIT were Anna Witter-Merithew, and I think a woman named Becky… [both chuckle]
00:14:47 Sharon
I don't remember her last name.
00:14:49 Sharon
But that's, that's a guess.
00:14:51 Sharon
But Anna…
00:14:52 Sharon
Anna Witter-Merithew, who is such an amazing leader in our field and a thought leader teacher.
00:15:00 Sharon
Anna, as my deepest, honest, deepest respect.
00:15:05 Sharon
So, she was one of the significant founders.
00:15:11 Sharon
I don't recall who did keynotes and endnotes back in those days.
00:15:16 Sharon
But I would honestly say we all did because we were a very small group. [both chuckling]
00:15:23 Sharon
And the people I can recall who were leaders from that time of educators were…
00:15:33 Sharon
…besides Anna, who was one significant one, Carol Patrie, Theresa Smith, Betty Colonomos, Dennis Cokely, The Ingrams…
00:15:47 Sharon
Whose first name(s) don't come to me. But they were a married couple who were both deaf-parented interpreters and interpreter educators.
00:15:56 Sharon
I think their name was Ingram and Bill Isham, I think was back in those days.
00:16:01 Sharon
But I'm not sure.
00:16:03 Sharon
Oh, there are so many. I'm leaving out, but I'm just trying to think who was way back then. 'cause other names are coming to my brain, [Tim: mm-hmm] but I think they were later cuz I'm looking at them in my mind and they're younger. [laughing]
00:16:17 Sharon
So, I think they were.
00:16:21 Sharon
Umm, huh?
00:16:22 Sharon
Gary Sanderson might have been in that generation.
00:16:29 Sharon
Oh, I know OH, LOU FANT!
00:16:31 Sharon
Oh my goodness, Lou Fant one of the absolutely most amazing educators and interpreters of, of all time.
00:16:41 Sharon
And Virginia Hughes? She was my mentor. And she was my first boss when we first…. when I first started working and taught me everything I know.
00:16:55 Sharon
But anyway, so that's a that's a very scattered list, and I apologize to anyone I haven't mentioned, but I guess.
00:17:05 Sharon
I'm remembering what I'm remembering I guess, but there you go. [both chuckle]
00:17:12 Tim
But you say it with confidence.
00:17:16 Tim
I wanted to say some of the names because I think it's important for us to remember those names when we can and record it for others to know.
00:17:24 Sharon
I agree.
00:17:26 Tim
I've heard many things about many of the names that you've mentioned throughout my career, but I've only met a few of those yourself included in that.
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00:17:39 Tim
So back to the conference.
00:17:40 Tim
How is it structured today?
00:17:42 Tim
Is it mainly research now and lectures or is there any hands-on or more of that sharing a share…?
00:17:51 Tim
Or share shops. I believe you called them.
00:17:53 Tim
I love that name, by the way.
00:17:55 Sharon
Yeah. Well, we don’t call them that anymore.
00:17:58 Sharon
I like that name too.
00:18:01 Sharon
The conference this last conference had a keynote and an endnote.
00:18:07 Sharon
I was fortunate and honored to be the one of the endnote presenters. My colleague Franklin Jones Jr was… the two of us presented together.
00:18:19 Sharon
And they made great effort at having as much diversity, equity, and inclusion as possible.
00:18:28 Sharon
And I think they accomplished a good amount of that. You know, it's never it never feels enough, but it was good. And the differences between Franklin and I were a gift because it gave me such an opportunity to see from a different perspective the things we were talking about.
00:18:49 Sharon
We are of different ages, different races, different sexual identities, different genders, different everything. So, but we're different and, and it was beautiful.
00:19:00 Sharon
The keynotes that structure remained, keynote, endnote.
00:19:04 Sharon
There were some plenary sessions, not a whole lot.
00:19:08 Sharon
And there were, uh,…
00:19:11 Sharon
Sessions that were smaller, broken out into smaller groups. But I think they just called them breakout sessions, but those breakout sessions took the form of classroom style, lecture style and workshop style.
00:19:26 Sharon
Most of them were lecture style. And then there are poster sessions where people typically they bring their research.
00:19:34 Sharon
It's not only research and they set up their posters in a single room and people can browse go from poster to poster and discuss the material individually with the researcher or the presenter.
00:19:50 Sharon
Most of the, most of the focus these days has been on research.
00:19:57 Sharon
And in the early days, it was on strategies and techniques and “how to”.
00:20:04 Sharon
And there, there wasn't a lot of that this conference per say, but I suspect there will be a little bit more coming up in the future because some people have mentioned they missed that. You know, they like sitting down and talking about approaches as well as the research.
00:20:20 Sharon
There's a tremendous number of people now who are doing research in the area of interpreter education because there are some graduate level courses now graduate level programs, degrees for interpreter educators.
00:20:38 Sharon
So, they have to do research to complete their degree, [Tim: mm-hmm] and they are also encouraged to continue to do research. So many, many young researchers are coming to the surface in CIT. I saw a lot of them in the poster session and then some in the meeting session in the breakout sessions.
00:21:04 Tim
So, kind of wrapping up CIT, maybe, I can't promise. [Sharon chuckles]
00:21:10 Tim
What was your feeling? Do you ever get nostalgic? Thinking…
00:21:15 Tim
Huh. We've come a long way.
00:21:18 Tim
Or is it just I'm here in the moment?
00:21:20 Tim
Do you think back and think about how much we've grown, how much we've matured as a profession? What was your feeling?
00:21:29 Sharon
That's an interesting question.
00:21:31 Sharon
I had a wonderful time at this conference.
00:21:35 Sharon
I really did.
00:21:36 Sharon
I enjoyed myself.
00:21:38 Sharon
And I had… not as much as I would have liked cause life is like that…
00:21:44 Sharon
But I had some really significant connections with people that I don't see very often.
00:21:52 Sharon
And for me, you know my personality and my life, and my, my, who I am is… when I go to another country and I come home, people ask me, you know, how… what I saw. And I'm like, “Uh… I saw Tim Curry.” [Tim chuckles]
00:22:07 Sharon
That's who I saw. I'm about people not about the places much.
00:22:13 Sharon
So, for me, that is the power of CIT is the opportunity to connect with people that I don't normally see or that people I do see.
00:22:22 Sharon
But you know it's, it was just delicious to spend time with these wonderful thinkers and people.
00:22:29 Sharon
I am very much [laughs] a person of the moment, as you can tell 'cause I can't remember anything from the earlier days. [Tim chuckles] I, I don't remember this very often about the previous CITs when I'm at the CIT conference.
00:22:45 Sharon
Other than when somebody else does, and then I'm delighted to share that, you know, they'll say remember when.
00:22:52 Sharon
And bottom line, I think the gift of CIT…
00:22:56 Sharon
I really hope anyone who's interested will come if they can make it. The gift of CIT is… I felt so stimulated and so intrigued.
00:23:07 Sharon
And some of the things that I learned were so helpful and some of them were so challenging to the way I thought before.
00:23:18 Sharon
All things I invite into my life with great joy.
00:23:21 Sharon
The capacity to think and think differently makes me very happy, and that was available there.
00:23:29 Sharon
It was also, as I say, it was everything the official language was American Sign Language.
00:23:38 Sharon
And I have always wondered.
00:23:40 Sharon
I still do.
00:23:41 Sharon
You know how.
00:23:42 Sharon
Do, do we think differently when we use one of our languages than when we use the other?
00:23:48 Sharon
Because when I used to teach at the university in Southern California, where I used to… Cal State University Northridge.
00:23:56 Sharon
My students said (some courses were in ASL, and some courses were in English, were taught in English), and my students said that my personality was different in each of those languages.
00:24:08 Sharon
So, I thought that was so interesting because I wouldn't have thought that.
00:24:12 Sharon
So, I didn't think that at CIT because the early CITs were in English.
00:24:18 Sharon
And then as we became more attuned to inclusion and all that, we moved over to ASL.
00:24:27 Sharon
And boy, what a difference!
00:24:28 Sharon
0h, one really interesting thing I shouldn't say this, but it's true.
00:24:32 Sharon
People were noisy.
00:24:33 Sharon
They weren't talking. [Tim chuckling]
00:24:35 Sharon
I don't mean using English.
00:24:37 Sharon
They were, you know, people who weren't aware that they were making noise.
00:24:42 Sharon
Were laughing and using their voices, you know, just making gestures with their voices or whatever.
00:24:51 Sharon
During lectures, you know, and so you're sitting there watching lectures, you're hearing.
00:24:55 Sharon
People in the back, “AAAHA HA HA HA!”
00:24:58 Sharon
And I found, I found that intriguing.
00:25:01 Sharon
I was like, oh, so in my feedback to the organizers, I said I think we have to have some kind of an explanation to the people who don't notice that they're making noise, to help the people who can hear to focus 'cause, it's really hard to focus when everybody's making noise.
00:25:22 Sharon
The other unbelievably… (why I'm mentioning this I don't know), but the cool thing was the exhibitors, the people who brought their wares to share or their programs to advertise. [Tim: mm-hmm] They were in the main room.
00:25:39 Sharon
So that you could actually sort of…
00:25:43 Sharon
You didn't have to go to some far place to see all their tables.
00:25:48 Sharon
You could just go to the back of the room or the side of the room.
00:25:51 Sharon
And they were very respectful.
00:25:54 Sharon
I think in general they didn't discuss things during a talk, but during the breaks you could just walk up to the table and talk to people.
00:26:03 Sharon
Was wonderful and many of the present-, many of the exhibitors are themselves interpreter educators. And so, for them what a gift that they could attend.
00:26:14 Sharon
You know, that they could see the lectures during the time when lectures were being provided.
00:26:19 Sharon
It was very nice.
00:26:20 Tim
OK. The last thing on CIT. I know at one time…
00:26:25 Tim
It may have been 20 years ago there was a movement to get interpreter training programs accredited.
00:26:36 Sharon
Yes.
00:26:36 Tim
Was that through CIT and is that still going or how did that develop?
00:26:42 Sharon
I'm not very, you know, I don't teach in an interpreter training program.
00:26:47 Sharon
And so, I'm not as familiar as some, but I think it's called CCIE, and it is a certification process and it is independent of CIT I believe, but I'm not sure.
00:27:04 Sharon
But I do know that really, it's very rigorous and it's not easy to become certified or accredited via that, that system.
00:27:15 Sharon
So, I think it's a beautiful thing and I know that the programs that I know of that have been accredited, I can see why they have been. [Tim: mm-hmm] You know, they're very, they're very polished and very dedicated to the work.
00:27:31 Tim
OK.
00:27:32 Tim
Well, that sounds like a really good outcome of CIT.
00:27:34 Sharon
Oh, it is definitely an outcropping of this collaboration among the educators, absolutely. [Tim: mm-hmm, yeah]
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00:27:49 Tim
It's always good to hear about the history of our profession and how it has impacted reality today, and even a little hint of what the future may bring with the next generation.
00:28:01 Tim
Let's talk about some of the main points from this episode that we should keep in mind.
00:28:06 Tim
Coming together as professionals, being able to share our wisdom helps us analyze the perceptions we have, the feelings we have, and start studying those to help us develop better, to help us communicate better with ourselves and each other.
00:28:25 Tim
That's how CIT started and that's how it has evolved. It now has a next generation of researchers, not just interpreters, but interpreter trainers, educators which influences all of us.
00:28:41 Tim
One of the more intriguing points in today's episode that Sharon mentioned was why do we interpret the way we do? Each of us have our own skill set, our own background.
00:28:55 Tim
And looking at how we are taught and even more deeper, what we learned from the teachings we were exposed to, what we took from there, what we latched on to, influences how we work, looking for those patterns of our work and understanding our own history can help us determine why we do the things we do.
00:29:18 Tim
For me, that can help us all determine how to improve our skills by knowing what has affected them.
00:29:26 Tim
We may never be able to look inside the brain of an interpreter and see everything that affects the interpretation work, the product, when we have one interpreter interpreting a concept one way and everyone else interpreting it another way.
00:29:43 Tim
But yet we all see the benefits of each one.
00:29:47 Tim
Many of them may be just as effective, but why?
00:29:51 Tim
Why do we do it differently? But understanding our own “why” and influences can help us understand the patterns that we create in our work that shows us if there's a habit that we need to change or improve on.
00:30:07 Tim
So, until next time, keep calm.
00:30:10 Tim
Keep cracking that interpretation.
00:30:13 Tim
I'll see you next week.
00:30:14 Tim
Take care now.
[ROCK EXIT MUSIC ENDS AT 00:30:52]