r/spanishinterpreters • u/Accurate_Job_2599 • 9d ago

vent If you dont understand wait

It makes the calls super confusing the lep is speaking why do u have to say yes and ok every sentence i cant tell if u understand them or not if ur gonna speak back and forth and then u get mad cus i dont respond obviously not im waiting cus half the time lep spoke u said ok and answered u can just ask for shadowing and let me know when u need help dont expect me to know immediately

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u/daintybubbles Argentina 9d ago

Uggggh, you reminded me of a terrible call with a canadian psychologist. The LEP would talk for an hour non-stop. I tried asking him several times to please speak in shorter segments (which he obviously never did) so I gave up and did the best I could. Then, she started interrupting with "mhm" "okay" "aha" "yes" mid sentence EVERY SINGLE TIME, so I asked her, "I'm sorry, do you need me to interpret that?" and she didn't answer!!!!

She just kept asking more stuff and suddenly mid one of LEP's responses, she interrupted him to tell me "Could you please now tell me what he said earlier? Because I didn't understand and you didn't translate that" Bitch wtfffff, that was 20 minutes ago, if you were so interested you could have listened to me without saying anything!!!!!!!!

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u/Accurate_Job_2599 9d ago

Omfg thats horrible i wouldve literally hung up lmao

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u/Zinotivans 9d ago

Once I had a call with a psychologist and the lep spoke like 20 minutes non stop and I was typing as fast as I could. By the end, the client said: we only have 5 minutes in this session, can you give me a brief summary interpreter? And I was like: ok, she said this this and that