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well good afternoon those gentle I'm not to say I

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a few words about interpreting as a career
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and the first thing you have to sort out his interpreters
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are not translators in what I mean by that is
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a translator reads and writes well as an interpreter
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listens and speaks so
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pent-up translator will receive the document read through
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type up a translation it's very good
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if you need a precise translation perhaps a
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legal contract every word must be correct
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but it takes a long time what an interpreter does
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is immediately tell you what the other person
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is saying that means of course it's very good for meetings
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conferences we don't want to wait three days to me to translation
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he does mean though the interpreter can never be quite
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as precise has a translator and in fact
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that's part of the fun interpreting it's very creative
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you often find that you have to reconstruct
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what the speaker is saying you don't go through word by word
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you might find yourself telling their story
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or making their argument in a completely different way
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using different sentences and different words to make
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the same point you might also
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sometimes find yourself adding some cultural information
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the speaker might say something which everyone understands in their culture
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good for your listeners to understand you might quickly have to add
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a couple of cultural points basically there are two main kinds
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on interpretation consecutive and simultaneous
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simultaneous interpretation is what you can see people doing here
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in the rooms behind me while I'm speaking
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the immediately interpreting my
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ideas so that someone else commision straight away
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it's very good for a meeting or conference
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consecutive is what you do
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if you haven't got all this technology you'll perhaps walking around the farm
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we all just meeting in a small room somewhere the speaker speaks for
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a few minutes and the interpreter takes notes and then the speakers stops
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and the interpreter gives an interpretation of what they said
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and then the speaker starts again and so on
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the problem with consecutive interpretation of course
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is it is much slower so most people prefer to use
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simultaneous interpreters when they've got the technology to do it
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so what kind of person
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wants to be an interpreter well
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its people who like the stress the excitement and interpreting
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its you there your in the heart sees you have got to understand
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what the other person saying and interpreted straight away
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it's very different from translation
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translator you get a document in you've got time to look up
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the vocabulary or to think I've just the right word the perfect word
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to translate the word in the original translation
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appeals to people who are thorough who like to be careful
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although it's important to remember
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the translators very often have to work under time pressure
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as well interpreting appeals much more to people
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who enjoy the adrenaline of having to get it right
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now without waiting some people find that rather frustrating
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a translator at the end of the day has a nice documents they've checked it
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through
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they've done it well it's perfect they can send it off to that customer
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an interpreter at the end the day has nothing
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the conference is finished you go home
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I personally like that I don't take my work home
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some people find it frustrating another
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aspect in interpreting is that we tend to travel a lot
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meetings don't take place outside your house
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you might find yourself traveling all around Europe all round the world
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will some people love that other people don't
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but you're not going to escape it if your interpreter
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probably the best thing about interpreting is what I just said it's
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exciting
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its creative there's lotsa adrenaline not serve
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enjoyable pressure on you
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another advantage is quite often you'll be going to interesting consciences
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very various conferences meeting lots of people
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you might meet all kinds have VIP's to you otherwise
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only see on television or you might find all sorts going on the farm
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all going round a factory places that you would never have seen
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if you want interpreter you might find yourself in some big castle somewhere
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we're going to a fancy dinner where you will be eating the same fancy food is
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the delegates
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which is a nice advantage