RING OF FIRE 11 - Basic Terminology Interpreting Practice

Ring of Fire is a weekly terminology practice session for all levels of interpreters, students, new and seasoned, and can be used for all languages, including ASL.

In this practice:
Legal and General Category - Election Terminology
Electoral College, Delegates, Surrogates, Voting Booth, Constituents, Mail-in Ballot, Absentee Ballot, County Clerk, Election Official, Candidates, Write-in Candidate, Survey, Petition, Bill, Polls, Caucus, Lobbyist, Platform, Precinct.

Medical Category - Vaccines
Oral Polio Vaccine; Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine; Viravax; Live Vaccine; Shingles Vaccine (Zoster); BCG Vaccine (Bacillus de Calmet-Guérin); Diphtheria, Tetanus, A-cellular, Pertussis Vaccine; Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis Vaccine; Booster. 

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Episode Transcript

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The Ring of Fire.

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Welcome to the Ring of Fire, aweekly terminology practice
session for interpreters of alllevels.
Ring of Fire can be used for alllanguages, including ASL.
Thanks for joining me.
I'm your host, Maritza.
Before we start our practice,there are two things that I want
to mention.
First, thank you to all thelisteners.

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I started this podcast a monthago, and I'm so thankful for
everyone that has been tuningin.
My target audience isinterpreters in the United
States, but to my surprise,interpreters in other countries
have been tuning in.
In all honesty, when I saw thelist of countries, I almost
started crying.

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I want to thank the listeners inArgentina in Mendoza; en la
República Dominicana, QuisqueyaLa Bella; in the United Kingdom;
en Ecuador en Azuay; And thelistener or listeners that tuned
in from Kenya, I am so thankfulfor you.
I started studying Swahili threeyears ago, but I had to stop

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because I had so much on myplate.
I dream of going to Tanzania andKenya.
So, for our listener orlisteners in Kenya, I have a
special greeting in Kiswahili.
Asante The other thing that Ineed to let you know is that I'm
going to do the terminologypractice a little different.

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Here in the United States, weare less than 45 days away from
our presidential election and itis drama.
I decided to Take the legal andgeneral categories and make them
into one list of 20 terms allrelated to election terminology.
For medical, I've includedvaccine terminology in previous

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episodes, but I'm going to dovaccines again.
Let's begin.
Election terminology for generaland legal.
Electoral college.
Delegates.
Surrogates.
Voting booth.

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Constituents.
Mail-in ballot.
Absentee ballot.
County clerk.
Election official.
Candidates.

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Write-in candidate.
Survey.
Petition.
Bill.
Polls.

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Caucus.
Lobbyist.
Platform.
Precinct..
Now, for the medical category,featuring vaccines.
Let's begin oral Polio vaccine,also known as OPV Vaccine,

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measles, mumps and Rubellavaccine, also known as MMR
Vaccine Viravax.
This vaccine is for measles livevaccine.

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Shingles vaccine, also known asZoster vaccine.
BCG vaccine.
This vaccine is for thetreatment of tuberculosis.
BCG is a French abbreviation.
In the United States, BCG willbe Bacillus de Calmet-Guérin.

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I'm going to give you the Frenchpronunciation, but do not make
fun of me.
One of the reasons I do notstudy French is because I can't
pronounce it.
In French, BCG is B C G R E N T.
For the next vaccine, noticethat it is diphtheria.

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Feria.
Diphtheria tetanus and pertussisvaccine.
Also known as D T P.
Diphtheria tetanus.
A cellular pertussis vaccine.

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Also known as DTaP.
Booster.
A booster shot.
A booster vaccine.
Thanks for joining me.
Tune in next week for the nextRing of Fire.