LC Russian study guide
LC Russian · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The LC Russian credential certifies that an interpreter can work reliably between English and Russian in court settings - arraignments, evidentiary hearings, plea colloquies, trials, and witness examinations. It is intended for working interpreters who already have strong bilingual fluency and now need to demonstrate legal register, courtroom protocol, and the ability to perform under pressure in both directions. The LC Russian study guide has 10 sections and about 3,117 words.
01English Reading Comprehension
The English Reading Comprehension section checks whether you can extract meaning from authentic legal and public-administration English - statutes, court rules, contracts, news reports and memoranda - at a professional pace. Questions target main idea, detail, inference, vocabulary in context, reference and tone.
338 words, about 2 min02Russian Reading Comprehension
Russian Reading Comprehension tests your ability to process Russian legal and official texts - statutes, court decisions, contracts and protocols - under exam conditions. It checks main idea, detail, inference, grammatical reference and vocabulary in context.
329 words, about 2 min03English Legal Terminology and Court Procedures
This domain checks English-language legal terminology and the procedural sequence of common-law courts, especially U.S. and English criminal and civil procedure.
289 words, about 1 min04Russian Legal Terminology and Court Procedures
Russian Legal Terminology and Court Procedures covers the structure of Russian courts and the Russian criminal, civil and arbitration process, including the procedural status of participants. Court system: Конституционный Суд РФ; Верховный Суд РФ; кассационные и апелляционные суды общей юрисдикции; суды субъектов РФ; районные суды; мировые судьи; арбитражные суды; военные суды.
268 words, about 1 min05English Source Language Translation and Interpretation Skills
English Source Language Translation and Interpretation Skills tests your ability to move from English into Russian without distorting legal meaning, register or procedure. It covers source-text analysis, terminology, collocation and the limits of literal translation.
307 words, about 2 min06Russian Source Language Translation and Interpretation Skills
Russian Source Language Translation and Interpretation Skills tests the reverse direction: rendering Russian legal and official texts into accurate, natural English. The challenge is Russian syntax, aspect, participles and institutional realia.
315 words, about 2 min07Sight Translation: English to Russian
Sight Translation: English to Russian tests on-the-spot rendering of a written English legal text into Russian, usually with 20–30 seconds of preparation. It measures reading ahead, chunking, terminology and composure.
321 words, about 2 min08Sight Translation: Russian to English
Sight Translation: Russian to English tests your ability to render Russian legal prose into fluent English under time pressure. Russian's long attributive chains, participles and impersonal constructions are the main obstacles.
345 words, about 2 min09Consecutive Interpreting: English to Russian and Russian to English
Consecutive Interpreting tests bidirectional oral rendering after a speaker pauses, typically in court, police or lawyer-client settings. It requires note-taking, memory and register control.
303 words, about 2 min10Simultaneous Interpreting: English to Russian and Russian to English
Simultaneous Interpreting tests real-time rendering in a booth or with headphones, usually of a legal submission, witness testimony or judge's summing-up. It measures lag management, anticipation and syntactic restructuring.
302 words, about 2 min