Foundations
Build the core interpreting micro-skills — chunking, memory, notes, numbers, register and accuracy — through short interactive drills before you tackle full dialogues.
Listen & Hold
Break speech into chunks, hold it in memory, and capture it with notes.
- Try free →Chunk It Down: Interpret in Bite-Sized PiecesFree· 8 min
You'll break long utterances into meaningful sense-units and render each one accurately without freezing or losing the thread.
- Try free →Hold It in Your Head: Memory TrainingFree· 8 min
You'll retain longer stretches of speech accurately by visualising, grouping and tracking the logic instead of memorising words.
- Try free →Notes That Save You: Symbols & ShorthandFree· 8 min
You'll capture numbers, names and idea-flow with a fast symbol system so your memory only has to carry the meaning.
The Quiet Killers
Numbers, dates, money, names and addresses — the details examiners cut first.
- Try free →Numbers, Dates & MoneyFree· 9 min
Master the silent score-killers: convert lakh and crore to millions and thousands, never round or drop a digit, and keep every dosage, date and dollar amount exact.
- Try free →Names & AddressesFree· 9 min
Lock down the details that are easy to garble: spell and transliterate Punjabi names accurately, keep Kaur and Singh straight, and reproduce Australian suburb names, street numbers and postcodes exactly.
Sound Like a Pro
Match register (tusi/tu) and stay in first-person direct speech.
- Try free →Matching Register: ਤੁਸੀਂ, ਤੂੰ and Staying in RoleFree· 8 min
Learn to match the formality of officials, doctors and police by choosing ਤੁਸੀਂ (tusi) over ਤੂੰ (tu), using honorifics like ਜੀ, and avoiding unnecessary English for everyday words.
- Try free →Stay in First Person: Direct Speech in InterpretingFree· 8 min
Learn why you must interpret in the first person ('I have chest pain'), never reporting in the third person ('he says he has chest pain') — and how indirect speech throughout the test can invalidate it.
Total Accuracy
Catch omissions, distortions and additions before the examiner does.
- Try free →Catching Errors: Omissions, Distortions and AdditionsFree· 8 min
Learn the four NAATI error types and train your ear to spot missing facts, distorted meaning, and added information — remembering that additions cost marks even when they are factually correct.