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Interpreting Modes, Settings, Delivery, and Professional Qualifications

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Summary

This lesson introduces interpretation as live language mediation, distinguishes it from written translation, and explains how its history and main modes developed.

Interpretation is the translation of spoken or signed language into another language, usually in real time, to facilitate communication. The interpreter conveys a speaker’s or signer’s message to people who do not share that language.

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Sight translation
Orally rendering a written source-language document into the target language as though it had been written in that language.
Relay interpretation
Interpretation through an intermediate language when no interpreter can work directly between the source and target languages.
Medical interpreter
An interpreter who supports communication among patients, families, and health-care personnel, often using medical terminology and clinical knowledge.
Video remote interpreting (VRI)
Interpreting delivered through live video and audio, allowing participants to see visual information such as signing.
CATTI
China's professional qualification assessment for translation and interpreting, introduced in 2003.

Quiz questions

  1. When interpreting a long consecutive segment, what commonly helps an interpreter retain its content?Answer: Taking clear notes to supplement memory.
  2. In a typical simultaneous interpretation booth, how does the target-language audience hear the interpreter?Answer: Through earphones connected to the interpreter's microphone.
  3. Which settings commonly use public-sector, or community, interpreting?Answer: Health care, education, housing, and welfare services.
  4. Which statement accurately describes signed languages?Answer: They are natural languages with their own structures and syntax.
  5. Under Title VI, what must federally funded U.S. health providers do for patients with limited English proficiency?Answer: Take reasonable steps to provide equitable access to services.

Based on the Wikipedia article Language interpretation, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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