by Luigi Luccarelli
Preparation is the invisible work that contributes to the success of meetings large and small ? and one of the main reasons why interpreters are so often heard but not really noticed.
In November 2012, some 90 representatives of civil society organisations met in Bangkok for a series of meetings organised by the International Budget Partnership (IBP)*. CIAP provided interpretation in English, French, Spanish and Russian for participants from Africa, Latin America and Central Asia.
Half of the world’s estimated 6,000-plus languages will likely die out by the end of the century without urgent efforts to protect minority communities and their languages, a United Nations independent expert said in March 2013.
There are two questions conference organisers often ask a consultant interpreter:
Professional interpreter, translator, editor and trainer Luigi Luccarelli explains how interpreters must be skillful in myriad ways to carry out the task before them.
Have you ever sat down in an interpreter’s booth, put on the headphones and tried to interpret the incoming speech? I did when I was a young and rather naive student who thought that being bilingual meant one could interpret simultaneously. No sooner had I started that problems arrived. As I was outputting the first sentence, the second one was already coming in but I hadn’t paid enough attention to it. I remembered its beginning but not its ending. Very quickly I fell behind and I just couldn’t say anything more after a few minutes!
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