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Top 7 challenges interpreters face every day

Estimated reading time: 1 minute Given the necessary requirements an interpreter has to meet, we can see that interpreting is one of the most exhausting activity because of the intellectual effort required. Thus, the International Association of Conference Interpreters sets[…]
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What are the qualities of a good interpreter?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes In this article we will present the qualities that a good interpreter should have: 1. Mental agility: You need to be able to do more things at once: to listen, to understand, to synthesize, to[…]
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What are the qualities of a good translator?

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Let’s begin with what is obvious and fundamental: a translator or a student at the Translation Department should know at least one foreign language and their native language. This statement may seem a banality, but[…]
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The first interpreters in Latin America

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes For many people, the job of a translator may seem quite modern. But the truth is that for Latino-Americans, the art of translation has been at least since the arrival of the Spanish people on[…]
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What is the history of translation?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The first written translations were those in the Bible and biblical texts translated by Hebrews into their own language, since the Hebrew language was not used. In the 3rd century BC, Ptolemy Philadelphus, pharaoh of[…]
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What is interpretation?

Estimated reading time: 1 minute Generally, most people do not know the difference between translation and interpretation. Interpretation consists in transferring an oral message heard in one language and retransmitted to another. In other words, it is about the oral[…]
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What is written translation?

Estimated reading time: 1 minute Written translation is a creative process. It is much more than the conversion of words or groups of words, basically is the adjustment to foreign cultures, uses, behaviors, and manners. There are different types of[…]
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