Práctica de interpretación 2nd partial

It involves listening to what someone has to say and then, when they have finished, reproducing the same message in another language.

• Consecutive interpreting

• Simultaneous interpreting

• Whispering interpreting

The speech may be anything between a minute and 20 minutes in length and the interpreter will rely on a combination of notes, memory and general knowledge to recreate their version of the original.

• Long consecutive

• Short consecutive

Usually involves a speaker stopping after each sentence (or a couple of sentences) for the interpreter to translate.

• Long consecutive

• Short consecutive

Before World War II conference interpreting meant:

• Consecutive interpreting

• Simultaneous interpreting

____________________ came along after World War

II, by the 1970s.

• Consecutive interpretation

• Simultaneous interpretation

Some interpreters have suggested that consecutive is more accurate than simultaneous, although that is disputed

• True

• False

Consecutive allows the interpreter to interact with participants, for example to clarify what has been said

• True

• False

Consecutive may not be chosen simply because it is not cheaper

• True

• False

____________ in a consecutive interpretation to conference interpreting standards means you’re getting across -in the target language- the same explicit message(s) and any obvious implicit message(s) as the speaker, with the same hierarchization of points and information.

• Sense consistency

• Logical cohesion

_____________ means that on top of saying what the speaker has said, you must also make logical sense. That means that you should not contradict yourself within the speech

• Sense consistency

• Logical cohesion