In a globalised world, human relationships that cross national borders also raise the problem of mutual understanding between languages. The İyiTercüme team helps you, both orally and in writing, with translating a foreign language into your native language or your native language into a foreign language.
What Is Interpreting?
Interpreting is generally a service that translates two different languages into each other, or into a language that both parties can understand. For example, when translating from Turkish into German or from German into Turkish, both texts can also be rendered into English as a common language. Because interpreting usually takes place simultaneously with the speech or text, it requires more concentration and attention than written translation. It is also important that the person working as an interpreter has well-developed speaking skills.
What Are the Types of Interpreting?
Many types and methods are used in interpreting. The first type worth mentioning is consecutive interpreting: the interpreter takes notes while a speaker delivers a short passage and then presents the translation orally to the participants immediately after the speaker finishes. This method is usually used at press conferences, business lunches or conferences with a small number of participants, and at business meetings. Another method, simultaneous interpreting, is the translation delivered at the same time as the speaker, which we often come across in daily life on TV programmes. This method is also used at meetings and symposiums with the help of technical equipment (microphones, headphones, recording devices, etc.) and generally requires working as a team to provide fast interpreting. Liaison interpreting, another method, involves translating between two people who do not share a language at the same time, acting as an intermediary between them. Escort interpreting is a service in which the interpreter accompanies a person, usually at business lunches, on tours and during travel, conveying the details to them in their own language. Whispered interpreting is when, at large conferences where what is said cannot be understood because of noise, the interpreter sits next to the person and interprets in a low voice. Interpreting services, which include many other options such as telephone interpreting and sight translation of written texts, are offered to you by the İyiTercüme team quickly, reliably and with quality.
In Which Areas Is Interpreting Needed?
Interpreting is generally needed in less crowded settings such as business meetings, symposiums and conferences, on live TV programmes, in courts or during civil marriage procedures, and at press statements and video conferences.
What Is Written Translation?
Unlike interpreting, written translation is generally produced by translating texts into another text in written form. Although written translation is the most widely used translation method, it does not require the same level of spoken language skills, pronunciation or concentration as interpreting.
In Which Areas Is Written Translation Needed?
As interdependence has grown and human relationships have begun to develop at an international level, translation has become an important profession. Today it is clear that companies, business partnerships and firms that cooperate with partners abroad frequently need written translation services to reach agreements, communicate and arrange business terms with the other country. Our written translation service is carried out by our professional team of reliable specialists in their field. So that mutual business relations can progress quickly and effectively, our İyiTercüme team translates written documents in many areas, including company agreements and contracts, promotional brochures and catalogues, brand and advertising information, meeting and congress information, business trip reports and results, invoices, income and expense summaries, and annual balance sheets. Translations are delivered to you as a written document, with careful attention to grammar rules. We always pay attention to the terms and jargon used in business life. Terms that are no longer in use, or whose usage or meaning has changed, are carefully rendered into the foreign language. In written translation, we also attach great importance to protecting the confidentiality of personal information contained in texts and documents, and this information is never shared with other institutions or companies. Our team serves not only firms and companies but also individual clients. In line with the needs of our individual clients, we translate and deliver the documents they submit to us quickly. When translating, we take into account the field or institution in which the documents will be used, and the translations are presented to our clients in a style appropriate to that field.
Frequently Asked Questions
One of the most important points in interpreting is a command of pronunciation, grammar and style. The prerequisite for a good interpreter is native-level proficiency in both the target and source languages.
Mastering the spoken language also means knowing idioms, proverbs, innuendo and slang. Only then can you correctly understand every word spoken in that language. Translators must master the grammar, punctuation and spelling rules of both languages.
Even if translators are perfectly fluent in their native language, flaws in grammar and punctuation can lead to poor translations. After that, you should focus on continuously improving the language you have learned.
In this way, one gains a command of the culture, customs and traditions, and even the proverbs and idioms, of both the source and target languages.
Real-time translation is also called simultaneous interpreting. People who perform real-time translation, one of the interpreting methods, are called interpreters. Real-time oral communication between two languages is called simultaneous interpreting, and a person who does this professionally is also called a simultaneous interpreter.
Simultaneous interpreting aims to provide the fastest and most accurate translation in the shortest time, which is why it is preferred for many international conferences, business meetings and symposiums.
Interpreting is divided into 5 types: consecutive interpreting, simultaneous interpreting, liaison interpreting, escort interpreting and whispered interpreting. Consecutive interpreting is the method of taking notes as each speaker delivers what they want to say and presenting the interpretation to participants immediately after the speech. Simultaneous interpreting is interpreting at the same time as a speaker, which you often see in daily life, for example on television programmes. Liaison interpreting is the method of acting as an intermediary between two people who do not speak the same language, translating between their languages in real time. Escort interpreting is a service that provides details in a person's language by accompanying them, usually at business lunches, on tours and during trips. In whispered interpreting, the interpreter sits next to the person and interprets in a low voice because the noise at a crowded meeting makes the speech hard to follow.