Kursinformation

This is an introduction course in interpretation skills. The aim of this course is to develop students’ skills in interpretation in various fields and scenes. This course also serves as the final preparation for entry into the profession at a distinguished level through development of career portfolio to meet summative degree requirement and development of strategies for gaining work as a professional translator. This course also prepares students for area degree examinations and employer tests by reviewing previous exam materials and employer testing requirements. The interpreter translates the message in the target-language as quickly as he or she can formulate it from the source language, while the source-language speaker continuously speaks. In the ideal setting for oral language, the interpreter sits in a sound-proof booth and speaks into a microphone, while clearly seeing and hearing the source-language speaker via earphones