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Apple QuickTime movie  |  2002-08-16  |  4.4 MB  |  320x240  |  15fps  |  53 seconds
Transcription: I think that to work as an interpreter you need to be physically healthy. You can end up in all sorts of different settings where you're going to be working in awkward positions. So a physical fitness is helpful. Superior interpersonal skills I think are required. Certainly in the regular mainstream culture that you're coming from, and then the ability to also learn how to adapt and have interpersonal skills in Deaf culture as well. Cognitively, I think that one needs to have the ability to multitask, to analyze a message at the same time as you're putting it out.