Interpreter

An interpreter is a person who receives a non-recorded message spoken in one language, the source language, and repeats the same message in a different language, the target language.^[1] Unlike a translator, an interpreter’s source is volatile: He cannot simply rewind a recording and hear the same speech again.^[2] This makes an interpreter’s job difficult. He must remember many parts of speech.

Interpreters help to communicate between people speaking different languages. Some people do not understand fast speech in the source language and find an interpreter speaking their first language useful, too. In rare instances, an “interpreter” could also speak a speech in the same language as the speaker, because the speaker’s accent is too difficult to understand for other people.

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