The course aims to raise your awareness of how interpreting skills can help improve spoken English, and to prepare your bilingual skills for use in work situations where cross-cultural communication may be required.  By the end of the course, you should be able to comprehend and generate idiomatically correct language to communicate effectively in a wide range of social and work contexts.

 

• express ideas proficiently and idiomatically in spoken English through a variety of interpreting assignments.
• choose the register, tone and style appropriate to the context and purpose of communication.
• develop and practise the skills of sight translation and liaison interpreting.
• increase the size and depth of your vocabulary through various interpreting tasks.
• handle cultural references appropriately.

Code(s)	SBL-001
Duration	12 hours
Maximum Number of Participants	18
Fee	HK$500 (refundable)
Remarks	Students should have the ability to read Chinese and communicate in Chinese.

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