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I work for an
immigration law firm that often requires
interpreters who can come to our office to help us
communicate with our client. Do you have
professionals who can do this for oral depositions?
Yes, we do. LSI has
several hundred highly qualified and experienced
consecutive interpreters for oral depositions,
covering more than 50 languages. These interpreting
professionals translate in both directions what a
person has just said immediately after it has been
said. A good consecutive interpreter will deliver
the message with the same intonation and emphasis as
the speaker, without embellishment.
In
order for us to make the necessary arrangements when
you require a consecutive interpreter, we will need
to know: language and dialect, subject, and date,
time, and place of the interpreting assignment. It
is often very difficult to assign the best
interpreter for your specifications on very short
notice, so it is wise to schedule one or two weeks
in advance.
We have a major 3-day
conference coming up that will include attendees
from South America and Japan. What arrangements do
we need to make to ensure on-site interpreting for
those languages?
There are two types of
interpreting services that can be used: simultaneous
or consecutive. The simultaneous mode uses
electronic equipment so the audience hears the
interpreter rather than the speaker. In the
consecutive mode the speaker stops to wait while the
interpreter repeats the message in the audience’s
language. While no equipment is used for consecutive
interpreting, the smooth
flow of the presentation is interrupted.
Ordinarily, for large conferences, simultaneous
interpreting is the way to go. This service, which
requires highly talented, specialists, enables each
attendee to hear his or her own language at the same
time the speaker is using a different language. Each
interpreter works in a soundproofed booth. The
interpreter's words are transmitted to the relevant
attendees by means of wireless electronic equipment.
Linguistic Systems provides both interpreters and
equipment.
To order this service,
you will need to know exactly which languages you
will need and the days and times you will require
the interpreting. Because simultaneous interpreting
is such a highly skilled profession, our
interpreting manager generally requires at least 2 weeks
advance notice to complete all arrangements for
smaller conferences, and more time for large
conferences.
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