Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the new edition -- PART I The basics step-by-step -- Introduction -- What is consecutive interpreting? -- When is consecutive interpreting used? -- Community, liaison, medical and court interpreting -- About this book -- Note-taking for consecutive interpreting -- About the notes -- About the examples -- How to use the book -- Practice -- Miscellaneous -- 1 Speech analysis -- Mind maps -- Sections -- Section diagrams -- Mini summaries -- 2 Recognizing and splitting ideas -- What is an idea? -- Identifying ideas -- 3 The beginning: diagonal notes -- Subject, Verb, Object -- 1. Note shorter synonyms -- 2. Note a different SVO group with the same meaning -- 3. Noting only two of the three elements in SVO -- 4. Make several short sentences out of one long one -- 4 Links -- Why are links important? -- Finding links -- Families of links -- Noting links -- Moving on ... -- 5 Verticality and hierarchies of values -- Parallel values 1 -- Shifting values -- Parallel values 2 -- Use of brackets -- 6 Symbols -- What is a symbol? -- Why use symbols? -- What to note with symbols -- How to use symbols -- Organic symbols -- Where to find symbols -- How many symbols? -- Similar but not the same -- 7 Noting less -- Structure reminds us of the obvious -- When what comes next is obvious -- Things right in front of you -- Note the simple for the complicated -- Stories and jokes -- It depends on what you already know -- 8 What to note -- PART II Fine-tuning -- 1 Clauses -- Reported speech -- Additional information -- 2 Rules of abbreviation -- Abstractions -- Plurals -- Different languages -- Phonetic spelling and misspelling -- 3 Verbs -- Verb conjugations -- Verb tenses -- Modal verbs -- Nouns as verbs -- 4 The recall line -- 5 Uses of the margin -- Who? -- Structural elements -- Dates -- Anything important!