The article aims at offering an outlook to strategic skills used as part of consecutive interpreting
competence by second year undergraduates enrolled in the Translation and Interpreting study programme at
the Department of Translation, Interpretation and Applied Linguistics. A sample of 20 students who
performed the consecutive interpreting of 7 speeches yielded the information that in order to overcome
specific difficulties in consecutive interpreting and to improve the quality of the target-speech students resort
to strategies like literal translation, repair strategies or self-correction, repetition, speech expansion, stalling,
generalisation, substitution, morphosyntactic transformation (conversion), explaining, condensation and
approximation.
