Nowadays in the modern world such factors as globalization, travelling and international business have made a demand for translation and interpreting. Everybody has heard these two terms, but not all people know what do they actually mean, what's the difference between them.
A translator is a person who deals with written form of communication. This person translates articles, documents, brochures or whatever is needed and the result of translator's work could be seen as a printed text of a target language. I'd like to tell you about some features of translating process. After receiving text to translate, a translator plans his time, depending on the period of time he has. When everything is planned, he or she takes all the reference literature, vocabularies and dictionaries needed and begins to work.
A translator can work slow or fast, can obey or disobey a dress-code or sometimes even forget about good manners needed in society, like going and having a cup of coffee with a sandwich when he or she wants. But on the other hand a translator should have a close to perfect command in both languages, he or she has to be very attentive when writing a text, a misspelled letter can sometimes lead to the misunderstanding of the whole sentence. In some target languages (Russian, Italian) when translating from English the amount of words would always be bigger. This is unavoidable and needed to be carefully explained to the client.
An interpreter is a person who deals with oral form of communication. There two types of interpreting: consecutive and simultaneous. Simultaneous is performed usually by two or three people and special equipment at some international conferences, meetings, congresses. Consecutive interpreter is the most popular and demanded form of translation. Consecutive interpreter appears with you wherever you go. He or she interprets after the logical end of a phrase, sentence or paragraph. He or she hasn't got any time to plan the time.
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