How to Become a Senior Interpreter 30

The Advanced Interpreter Certificate is very useful for English majors, and it is highly recognized in East China, especially in Shanghai, where foreign companies value the Advanced Interpreter Certificate.

If there is no academic restriction on applying for the Shanghai Foreign Language Interpreting Examination, you can apply for intermediate and senior interpreting at the same time. However, the written test should be conducted first, and those who fail to pass the written test are not eligible to take the oral test.

1. The basic ability of English interpreting is mainly for those who have a high school English level or above, but have a certain distance from the English Mao Kaixun intermediate interpretation requirements, and are more suitable for junior college students, vocational school students, high school students, third-school students and other personnel with high school English or above.

2. Intermediate English interpreting is suitable for candidates with CET-4 and equivalent English proficiency level.

3. Advanced English Interpreting is suitable for candidates with CET-6 and equivalent English proficiency level.

The comprehensive written test consists of three parts: listening, reading, and translation (translation), including six test units, and the test time is 180 minutes. The oral test consists of two parts: speaking and interpreting, and lasts about 25 minutes. The training materials are a series of teaching books (fourth edition) for the training of talents in short supply in Shanghai, with a total of five volumes

Advanced Listening Tutorials, Advanced Reading Tutorials, Advanced Translation Tutorials, Advanced Speaking Tutorials, Advanced Interpreting Tutorials.

Interpreters work with at least two languages, so they must have a strong bilingual skills. A translator's bilingual ability not only refers to the basic knowledge of language, such as pronunciation, intonation, grammatical structure, lexical semantics, etc., but more importantly, the skills of how to use language knowledge such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation. In addition, the translator should also understand the various stylistic or stylistic styles and pragmatic functions, and master a certain number of terms, euphemisms, idioms, abbreviations, poems, etc.

Interpreters must have skilled expression skills, the quality of interpretation requirements, generally speaking, that is, fluent language, moderate speed of speech, no obvious mistranslation, missing translation, clear and natural pronunciation, accurate and appropriate wording, clean expression, concise and easy to understand, in a nutshell is "fluent, stable, accurate, complete". Accuracy has always been the most basic requirement for translation, and faithfulness to the original text is the basic requirement for translators' translation work. Fluency is a special requirement for interpreters, which is a test of the interpreter's skills under time and mental pressure, and can best reflect the literacy of the interpreter across two languages and two cultures.

Interpreters must pay attention to interpreting norms, foreign etiquette, and social etiquette. When interpreting, translators should translate faithfully, and do not interject, rush, or arbitrarily add or subtract from the original text. It is necessary to grasp the role, not to dominate the crowd and show off knowledge. Interpreters should always check their appearance and get rid of their unkempt habits.