When we hire an interpreting service, it is normal to worry about who is going to do the work. Translation and interpreting agencies do a selection and testing work to offer the best professional profiles to their clients.
However, it is normal that as a client you want to review and check that this selection is the right one to ensure that the event will go perfectly.
Firstly, it should be noted that in translation faculties, simultaneous translation is not discussed. They might even have trouble understanding what you mean.
The term “simultaneous translation” belongs to natural language, that is, the way we express ourselves spontaneously. However, translation professionals do not use this term, as it can refer to various types of translation.
At first glance, it may seem silly to write a blog about what oral translation is. It seems easy to define: spoken translation or, better, translation that is reproduced by voice.
However, when you speak of "oral translation", you may actually be referring to one of the many forms of oral translation.
In these times of Covid, I bring you another programme thatgreatly facilitates our clients’ work when holding conferences, webinars, virtual meetings, etc.
We all know, the world is becoming more and more digital and this process is going faster and faster. If it was fast before the Covid-19 pandemic, now, in the “new normality”, it's speeding up.
Let's imagine for a moment that a Belgian fellow we travels to a small rural village lost in the middle of Castilla la Mancha in Spain to spend his holidays. After spending two weeks there, he falls madly in love with the sunny village and its people, so he decides to buy a house. When he goes to the notary and wow... the notary speaks neither French nor Flemish. So what's next?
Arno Stern is an extraordinary man. How many people do you know who were born in 1924 who do online seminars? Yes, Arno Stern is 96 years old but that's no reason not to use new technologies and take his knowledge beyond the borders of France.
Would you like to be able to offer your webinar in other languages? Do you like the simplicity and reliability of ClickMeeting and you'd like to keep using it, but you need to do the interpretation into other languages?
At a time when our lives have been disrupted by Covid-19, we have been looking for efficient solutions to enable us to and stay in touch with each other. Many new technologies and programmes have been developed to enable us to continue our work remotely, and this is also the case for translation agencies offering translation and interpreting services.
When I started my Master's Degree in Conference Interpretation, I never thought that I would end up interpreting the last few months remotely and from home. The Covid-19 has infiltrated our lives, changing them completely, and in the world of interpretation it was not going to be any different.
