Consecutive interpreting was officially born during ...
World War I
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But in medieval periods, however, the interpreting profession was highly valued. Interpreters were
as members of the courts.
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One of the most difficult problems in translating is found in differences between...
cultures.
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Interpreters played an important part in international negotiations in times of war as well as peace, on trade expeditions, and interpreters were also useful for the spread of ...
Christianity.
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Many words which look like equivalents do not correspond each other. They have special connotations. For example, the word sheep has very negative connotations in the Russian language
(ÐĒŅ - ÐąÐ°ŅÐ°Ð― - you are a very dirty person) but in the Uzbek language sheep has a very positive connotation. (U qoâyday yuvosh - he is very calm like a sheep).In
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Consecutive interpreting may be as âshort consecutive interpretingâ or âlong consecutive interpretationâ.
In long consecutive interpreting the interpreter takes notes of the message to help rendering long passages.
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Romans and Greeks learned the languages of the peoples they had conquered. At the time most of the interpreters were ...
slaves, prisoners of war.
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The great discoveries and the expansions into Africa were also other good days for the interpreting profession. What languages did interpreters employ the services of captured natives who were taught the conquerorsâ languages?
Arabic and Hebrew
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Consecutive interpreter teaching is a frequently debated question. One argument is that consecutive translation is
gradually disappearing
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The speeches to be interpreted may take long as ...
20 minutes
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Consecutive interpreting needs
time and energy
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For example: In Uzbekistan we use cotton in a figurative sense (U paxtaday yumshoq) but this would never be used figuratively in English because...