Language maintenance

Keeping your source languages up to date is an essential part of CPD, especially if you don't live where they're spoken.

Ideas

Short immersion courses, online conversation exchanges and reading current press in your source languages. Formal courses count as structured CPD.

Good to know

• Interpreters can count assignment preparation as unstructured CPD, up to 5 hours a year.
• Network events with a talk or workshop count as structured CPD.
• A one-hour webinar counts as 1 hour of structured CPD, even if you watch the recording.

Downloads

• CPD log template (Excel, 35 KB)
• Reflective notes guide (PDF, 120 KB)

Page last reviewed 25 August 2026