A University of Macau\n(UM) student recently won the championship at the First Macao Interpreting\nContest. Another UM student and a Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM) student won\nthe two second prizes. The three students will represent Macao in the final of\nthe Sixth Cross-Strait Interpreting Contest to be held in Taipei in April 2016.<\/p>
Hosted by UM\u2019s Department of English, the interpreting contest consisted of three\nrounds. In the first round, contestants were required to interpret a\n90-second-long speech from English to Mandarin with the help of notes. In the\nsecond round, contestants were required to deliver the main ideas of a\n60-second-long Mandarin speech in English in 45 seconds without taking notes.\nIn the third round, contestants were required to do consecutive interpreting of\na conversation between a Mandarin speaker and an English speaker with the help\nof notes. The panel of judges included Zhang Meifang, Li Defeng, Vincent Wang,\nVictoria Lei, Hari Venkatesan, and Lily Lim, who are all members of the\nFederation of Translators and Interpreters of Macau.<\/p>
Stephanie Zhang\nXiaoping, a master\u2019s student of translation studies from UM, won the\nchampionship. Anita Chao Kit I, another master\u2019s student of translation studies\nfrom UM, and Zhang Jingyi, an undergraduate student\nof Chinese-English translation and interpretation from IPM, won the two second\nprizes. All three third prizes went to students from UM\u2019s master\u2019s degree\nprogramme in translation studies, namely Ether Ouyang Xingyi, Dianne Wu Kai I,\nand Vicky Ma Yue Cheng.<\/p>
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The Cross-Strait\nInterpreting Contest is an influential annual event jointly organised by Xiamen\nUniversity and the Taiwan Association of Translation and Interpretation, with\nthe support of the Ministry of Education and the Taiwan Affairs Office. Since its launch in 2009, the contest has attracted more than 10,000 contestants from\nover 800 universities in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This will be\nthe first time that university students from Macao will participate in the\ncontest. Past events of the contest were covered in mainstream media, including\nChina Central Television (CCTV), China\nDaily<\/i>, Television Broadcasts (TVB), Eastern Broadcasting Co (EBC), and\nPhoenix Satellite Television.<\/p>
Source: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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