There’s an ability that professional interpreters need, that I lack: The ability to echo input to output in close to real time. I’m not talking about the actual translation bit. I’m talking about the ability to put an audio book on headphones and repeat it in the same language as an “instant echo”, or with some short fixed delay. I know people who find that easy, but I find it maddeningly hard.
Let me pause and repeat, and I’m pretty good. I have solid “echoic” memory for sound, and an unusually good short-term memory.
I don’t feel particularly multithreaded, but I do find it easier to remain detached from my emotions and my “models” of other people than what you describe. Emotion is some other subsystem, basically. It can sometimes affect me in an ambient way if I’m not careful, but mostly it’s something I can observe.
I might be able to listen to two simultaneous conversations as a party trick? But I wouldn’t be fun.
There’s an ability that professional interpreters need, that I lack: The ability to echo input to output in close to real time. I’m not talking about the actual translation bit. I’m talking about the ability to put an audio book on headphones and repeat it in the same language as an “instant echo”, or with some short fixed delay. I know people who find that easy, but I find it maddeningly hard.
Let me pause and repeat, and I’m pretty good. I have solid “echoic” memory for sound, and an unusually good short-term memory.
I don’t feel particularly multithreaded, but I do find it easier to remain detached from my emotions and my “models” of other people than what you describe. Emotion is some other subsystem, basically. It can sometimes affect me in an ambient way if I’m not careful, but mostly it’s something I can observe.
I might be able to listen to two simultaneous conversations as a party trick? But I wouldn’t be fun.