Conference interpreting services
General
- Post-graduate
- 15 learners; teams of 2
- 10 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 4 projects wanted
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
- Any
- Any
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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May 1, 2023Experience start
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July 15, 2023Project Scope Meeting
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August 13, 2023Experience end
Timeline
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May 1, 2023Experience start
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July 15, 2023Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates. As these are individual interpreting assignments, it may be different employers offering an interpreting assignment each.
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August 13, 2023Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Students are able to provide interpreting services for short meetings or events that may be face to face (London, UK) or remote (elsewhere). It may be consecutive interpreting, but also simultaneous interpreting for short meetings or events.
Students are able to prepare topics that relate to a company, event or meeting, prepare glossaries for terminology management, and understand new concepts relating to the interpreting assignment. They will need to be briefed and receive documents in advance.
They will work in teams of two for short meetings such as negotiation meetings, client meetings, and multilingual/multicultural events.
- Learner skills
- Project planning, Communication, Research
- Deliverables
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Interpreting services in both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting.
Advice on how to run multicultural/lingual events with interpreters.
Project Examples
Short interpreting assignments (1 to 2 hours for a team of 2 interpreters per language combination). It may be consecutive or simultaneous interpreting, on site or using remote simultaneous interpreting platforms.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
A representative of the company will be available to answer questions from students in a timely manner for the duration of the project.
A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the course to review the project scope.
A representative of the company will provide feedback and fill a short report.