Interpreter Facts for Kids

An interpreter is a person who translates speech in different languages, usually at conferences or other meetings. Also, an interpreter is someone who will translate and communicate with people who find normal speech difficult. usually interpreters they work as self-employed to help organisations and institutions to communicate more effectively and efficiently with their clients who have limited language proficiency (LEP).

An interpreter is also a computer program that runs other programs described in text files. They are different from compilers because they do not make a new file to run the program.

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A painting showing a doctor explaining the outcome of an operation to his servant, who acts as an interpreter.
Stéphane Brizé (second from the right) speaking in French in Buenos Aires in 2019. Seated to his left, the interpreter (on the extreme right) waits to translate into Spanish.
Nuremberg defendants at dock listening to simultaneous interpretation
Simultaneous interpreter's station (Televic Conference) at the European Court of Justice
Interpreter (left) next to Swedish filmmaker Johannes Nyholm at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2019.
Interpreting booths at a conference by the World Trade Organization 2017
A US military interpreter sits with Afgan army soldiers, Ghazni province
A Peshmerga American interpreter, with a refugee, Duhok
The hostess (in red) and a sign language interpreter at a press conference in Taipei, 2007.
Two sign language interpreters working for a school, 2007
Interpreting booths in the European Parliament where interpreters simultaneously interpret debates between the 24 official languages of the European Union.

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