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Interpret.

Numbers are where marks disappear fastest — and the classic traps are -teen vs -ty (thirteen/thirty, fifteen/fifty), the odd thir-/fif- stems, and the nghìn / triệu / tỷ scale. This bank drills all of them. Type any correct form: 940000, 940,000, 940 nghìn, 940k or the words all count.

Hear a proper name from your exam slide and pick it out. Practise until you recognise it instantly.

Hear a sentence from the exam bank and fill in the missing words — always a proper name or a number. Figures may be written as digits or words, whichever you would actually say. Replay as often as you need.

The real bottleneck in consecutive interpreting is not vocabulary, it is holding the sentence. You hear it once, then the screen goes blank for a few seconds before you may write. Reproduce as much as you can — in English or Vietnamese.

Part 1 of the exam is Vietnamese into English under time pressure. Here the sentence is on screen, so nothing is hidden from you except the clock: say it aloud in English, type it, and beat the timer.

Press “Show a sentence” to start the clock.

You may take notes during the exam, and a symbol is written in a fraction of the time a word takes. The table below covers every kind of variable these sentences throw at you — trends, logic, quantities, dates, institutions, the speaker's stance, and your own topics.

Do not learn all of them. Interpreters work with roughly 25 symbols they never hesitate over; a symbol you have to think about costs more time than the word it replaced. Pick one category at a time, drill it to a streak of 8, then move on — and keep whichever ones you invent yourself.