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What to Study to Become an Interpreter?
There are a number of reasons why you may wish to become an interpreter. Perhaps you specialise in a foreign language and want to put it to use?
Maybe you have been helped by interpreters in the past and know how valuable they are? You may just want to provide a valuable service to your community and help those who really need it.
Whatever the reason, to work as an
interpreter you will need to consider what is required in order to become
qualified.
What is the Difference Between an Interpreter and a Translator?
It is highly likely that you have heard of interpreters and translators but you might think that they both do the same thing. After all, they both work with languages, but in reality the two jobs are completely different.
Essentially, interpreters work with the spoken word while translators work with written content. Although it is easy to see why you might consider them to be the same, they both require a completely different set of skills, so in this article we will examine the differences between the two and what makes them unique...
The Benefits of the Level 3 Certificate in Community Interpreting Qualification
The Level 3 Certificate in Community Interpreting is the entry level qualification for paid interpreters and is often a minimum requirement of interpreting clients (such as public services) and interpreting agencies (also known as Language Service Providers or LSPs) in the UK.
This blog explains more about the
benefits of this qualification, and explains its affordability, how it builds
your confidence, employability and career progression, how your knowledge
expands, the flexibility, interpreter salary, hands-on knowledge, job security,
and how professional the qualification is...
What Does a Teaching Assistant Do?
When
it comes to educating children and ensuring that they have the skills and
knowledge they need for their future lives, many people play an important role.
Of course, you may instantly think of teachers as one of those key people, and this is with good reason, as one of their responsibilities is to educate our children. However, many others have just as important a job to do when it comes to kids in school...
How Do I Deal With Stress?
While a small amount of stress can be beneficial, giving you the motivation that you need to accomplish essential tasks, excessive levels of stress can prove debilitating. It can be extremely difficult to cope with stress, especially if you’re about to sit important exams, such as one of our interpreting exams.
Many job roles are also stressful, including Interpreting and Teaching Assistant roles and stress can cause serious problems if it is not handled correctly...
How to Create an Interpreting Glossary
Building high-quality interpreting glossaries will be an invaluable help to you throughout all stages of your interpreting career. Whilst a LSP (Language Service Provider) may create one or more interpreting glossaries in collaboration with a client or Service provider, many interpreters prefer to maintain specialised glossaries for their own use.
In this article, we’ll explore the nature of interpreting glossaries, how they are used, why they are important and how you can begin creating your own.....
Comparing Consecutive Interpreting Techniques
Even before the pandemic changed the way people receive services - and in turn the way we work – there were several different consecutive interpreting techniques. In this article we look at the most common techniques in which an assignment may take place while delivering Level 3 Community Interpreting for public services and other clients: face-to-face, video remote and telephone....
How to Become a Medical Interpreter
If you aspire to work as an interpreter in medical settings, you will need several things.
To be a paid interpreter, and to ensure you are delivering a professional, high-quality service the first thing to get is an interpreter qualification, such as the Level 3 Certificate in Community Interpreting (CCI). This qualification is nationally recognised as the entry level standard for paid public service interpreting jobs in not only medical interpreting contexts but also contexts such as job centres...
Effective Strategies to Improve your Linguistic Skills
Learning a language is a never-ending process, and that goes for both your first language and any additional languages. This blog discusses the best ways to improve your language skills so that you are best prepared for carrying out interpreting assignments and your other day to day communications.
One of the most obvious ways of improving would be to hire a language tutor, however, this isn’t suitable for all budgets and there are many other, free ways to improve...
How to Improve your Consecutive Interpreting Skills
To deliver your best performance as a consecutive interpreter it is important to hone your skills to the point where you can successfully execute interpreting tasks. Here are three areas that you can add to your skill set to help you provide a high-quality consecutive interpreting service.....
What to expect from your first
interpreting assignment?
The day has finally come – you have been studying a language for years, reached a high level of proficiency, completed an interpreting course, acquired your interpreting qualification, found interpreting work with an agency, and finally been given your first interpreting job (assignment). Now what? .......
How can I get an Interpreting Job?
If you want to find work as an interpreter, there are 8 main steps that you can follow.
This 8 Step Guide to working as an interpreter is a series of videos that explains how to get qualified, where, when and how you can work, where you might be able to gain some interpreting experience, who provides work, how to register for work, what you need to knw about rates of pay, how to receive and accept assignments and how to complete them.