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Interpretation and translation are two separate specialties and like speaking and writing, involve an entirely different set of skills and expertise. Both skills imply a fluency in and a love of language, an ear and eye for detail and for discerning meaning rapidly and most of all accurately. Arguably, both skills are more similar than…
Being an international business interpreter can be an exciting profession, especially when your duties require you to travel around the world, meeting and interacting with others, in order to enhance business negotiations for your company and/or clients. That being said, there is a tremendous amount of responsibility involved. In addition to language fluency, business interpreters…
Simultaneous interpretation is usually contrasted with consecutive interpretation. That said, the adjective “simultaneous” may be a misnomer in that, although the interpreter is still in the booth wearing headphones and speaking into a mic, the interpreter needs to wait until the sentence is understood and processed before interpreting. Nonetheless, a simultaneous interpreter is listening and…
