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Challenges of Simultaneous Interpretation Letter of Intentions

Dear reader,

The following essay is about Simultaneous Interpretation, a branch of Translation Studies. At first, we will explore the definition of Simultaneous Interpretation, its german origins and name international organizations that aid interpreters. We will deal with the main challenges encountered in simultaneous interpretation and, later, we will focus on just one challenge of it: the fast speech.

The purpose of this essay is at first to examine the Simultaneous Interpreter profession, its challenges and the role it plays in translation studies. Later we will explore the problem of fast speech and purpose solutions that may help simultaneous interpreters to overcome it.

The target audience is composed of academics who are within the field, experts in the area and people aspiring to work with Simultaneous interpretation. We hope that this essay will help to guide people that are engaging in this career to prevail over the problems - fast speech problem, specifically. We hope also that the suggestions presented could help academics and experts that already work with Simultaneous Interpretation on their studies and work.

In order to do all that we engaged deeply in research of the subject matter and decided to use the following sources to compose the theoretical basis of this essay: “Coping Strategies for Fast Delivery in Simultaneous Interpretation”, an article by Li Changshuan; “Some Advice on Preparing for Simultaneous Interpretation of Current Political Themes”, an article by Igor Maslennikov; “Testing the Effort Models’ tightrope hypothesis in simultaneous interpreting - A contribution”, an article by Daniel Gile. Furthermore we will use some key concepts which are core to this field; such as //Simultaneous Interpreter// concept, also called //Conference Interpreter//; the //Consecutive Interpretation// concept as well as the //AIIC,// which stands for International Association of Conference Interpreters. We will also use Daniel Gile´s //Effort Models// theory.

 We hope you enjoy reading our work and are able to learn about the Challenges of Simultaneous Interpretation.

 Sincerely,

 Arthur and Anna