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with some inspiring and uplifting background music at the beginning to create the right atmosphere.

This one is an interview with Christina from Russia and you're going to hear us talking about working as a translator and interpreter and

also some general reflections on language learning. Now if you've heard episode 403 of this podcast you'll know that Christina is a

listener who won my anecdote competition this year. Her anecdote was about how she ended up having to interpret for Emmir Koster Ritza, the famous

Serbian film director, on stage at a film festival in front of an audience of movie industry people with absolutely no preparation.

It sounded quite stressful and it's also impressive that she managed to get through the whole

thing successfully without running screaming from the building.

I'm always impressed by translators and especially those ones, those people who do simultaneous

or consecutive interpretation.

You know, the sort of thing where for example someone is doing some kind of

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