SLTES Open study plan

Audit your own register control by recording 20 minutes of unrehearsed speech in each working language, then annotate every colloquialism, hedge, and false start you hear

Build a personal error log with at least 30 entries tagged by type (lexical, syntactic, collocation, pronunciation) drawn from your recording and two written samples

Assemble a starter glossary of 100 terms in one specialization you already work in, with source, target, definition, and source citation for each entry

Configure a termbase in a free CAT or spreadsheet tool with fields for part of speech, domain, status, and date verified, then import your 100 terms

Diagnose your reading comprehension under time pressure by summarizing three 800-word source texts in the target language in 15 minutes each, then scoring yourself against a checklist of main claim, supporting evidence, and tone

Classify and label 25 translation problems from your own past work using categories such as ambiguity, culture-bound reference, collocation mismatch, and syntactic divergence

Write a 400-word comparison of how two published theoretical frameworks treat equivalence, citing the specific claims each makes rather than summarizing generally

Rewrite five of your labeled problem segments using two different strategies each, and justify which version you would deliver and why

Translate a 600-word general-interest text into your weaker target language, then self-revise in three passes (accuracy, register, fluency) and log every change with its reason

Apply a skopos-style brief to the same text, rewriting the opening two paragraphs for a different audience and purpose, and articulate the concrete choices that changed

Practice back-translation on 10 short segments to test whether your target rendering preserves the source proposition, and record where it drifts

Compile a list of 20 recurring interference patterns between your language pair and write a mitigation rule for each

Drill note-taking symbols by taking notes on 15 short audio clips and reconstructing each from notes alone, tracking reconstruction fidelity per clip

Perform 12 consecutive renditions of 2-3 minute speeches with a 30-second lag, recording each and scoring accuracy, completeness, and delivery on a fixed rubric

Isolate three specific delivery habits (fillers, rising intonation, pace drift) from your recordings and design a corrective drill for each

Shadow five minutes of source-language audio daily for six days to stabilize articulation and lag tolerance

Introduce simultaneous practice in three stages (shadowing with numbers, chunked sight translation, then true simultaneous) across six sessions, logging minutes at each stage

Practice dual-task control by interpreting while tracking a number stream, and record your error rate per session

Analyze five of your own interpreting errors and trace each to a cause (comprehension, memory, production, or terminology) rather than labeling it a mistake

Run two mock sight-translation sessions on dense written text to build speed at syntactic restructuring

Map the cultural conventions of your working pair by documenting 15 norms covering forms of address, politeness strategies, humor, and taboo topics, each with an example

Draft a personal code of conduct covering confidentiality, competence boundaries, conflict of interest, and refusal language, grounded in at least three published professional standards you cite by name

Rehearse declining an assignment outside your competence by scripting and recording three refusal scenarios in each working language

Identify five culture-bound terms in your glossary and write a decision note on how you would render each without loss of meaning

Expand your glossary to 250 terms and verify 50 of them against primary sources, updating the status field and recording the verification date

Test two machine translation engines on a 300-word text and produce a structured post-editing report quantifying the edit types required

Set up a QA workflow that catches terminology inconsistency, number errors, and omissions, then run it on your week 3 translation and log what it flags

Build a reusable project template with glossary, style sheet, and QA checklist fields so future work starts from a consistent baseline

Complete a full mock exam under timed conditions covering one translation task and one interpreting task, then score it against your own rubrics

Consolidate your error log into the 15 patterns that recur most, and write one targeted drill for each

Rehearse the ethics scenarios from week 6 under time pressure and record responses without notes

Build a final-week review sheet of the 40 facts, terms, and standards you are least confident about