The answer is simple, interpretation is an act that requires strong cognitive skills. When a brain interprets for more than 30 minutes, the accuracy and the precision is compromised. The interpreter ...

Consecutive interpreting is more laborious than simultaneous interpreting as it slows the proceeding down. All participants in a meeting have to wait for the interpreter to stop speaking before they ...

Researchers at the Centre for Bioelectric Interfaces and the Centre for Cognition & Decision Making of the Higher School of Economics utilized electroencephalogram (EEG) and the event-related ...

Simultaneous interpreters are in great demand in Shanghai. For the upcoming 2010 World Expo, multilinguists are training hard and cashing in on the city's need for talent. Of course, not everyone has ...

During a pandemic, public health requirements force organizations to migrate to online collaborative working solutions. To adapt and continue working, despite bans on public gatherings, organizations ...

Why is this unit important? Simultaneous Interpreting (SI) has always carried its own mystique as a rare and hard to acquire skill displayed by only the top interpreters. For many people, the idea of ...

I have always been fascinated by language interpreters. I wrote in the teaser of my first post on the topic (see here) that we often take the work of interpreters for granted, and yet they accomplish ...