Gaborone Interpreting Services

Interpreting services in Africa do away with language barriers in the African cities and the world at large therefore the need for Gaborone interpreting services growing by leaps and bounds. Interpreting services play a vital role in many areas such as conferences and meetings, courts of law, medical fields, media, schools as well as in the sign language field. Translate 4 Africa avails professional interpreting services in African cities covering virtually all the African languages at competitive prices.

About Gaborone

This is the capital city and the largest of Botswana where 90% of the population speak Setswana as their first language and mother tongue. For business and formal activities English is the language especially in the urban areas of Gaborone. In Botswana, Setswana is the national language while English has the official status keeping in mind the other 20 or so languages used elsewhere in Botswana like Sekalanga.

High Quality Interpreting Services in Gaborone

We offer high quality interpreting services into and from all languages spoken and used in the city of Gaborone as well as other major cities in other parts of Africa too. Translate 4 Africa’s Interpreting Services are characterized by accuracy, professionalism and confidentiality for purposes of effective communication. Other cities with our Interpreting Services include; Dare-Es-Salam, Mogadishu, Abuja, Gaborone, Kinshasa, Brazzaville, Nairobi, Johannesburg to mention a few

Basic types of interpreting in Gaborone include;

Chuchotage interpretation; Here an interpreter interprets to only one or two people as the main speaker does his thing, the interpreter does his thing at the same time as the main speaker making it prone to misinterpretations and miscommunication.

Simultaneous interpreting; The interpreter is placed in a sound proof room where he speaks in to devices that enable the audience targeted to understand. The audience is usually fitted with hearing aids that they alone and maybe other only get to hear the voice of the interpreter. Here the interpreter interprets the moment the speaker finishes a sentence. This is very useful for world summits and large conferences that involve people of the same goal and initiative but who speak and understand different languages; French, Sotho, Swahili, Afrikaans, Portuguese etc.

Consecutive interpreting; Where the interpreter is close to the speaker and interprets every after a few words or sentences. This is very suitable for smaller gatherings or meetings like birthdays or small conferences. Sometimes this is because there are not so may languages involved here. In fact it is possible that the entire audience understand one of the two languages used. This kind of translation is very common at religious gatherings. The problem here is that the main speaker has to always wait and give time to the interpreter to get done with interpreting what the former said before thus consuming almost double the time.

Liaison interpretation; Interpreting directly as the conversation or dialogue goes on. It is meant to create and maintain a certain level of mutual understanding and is usually used for very small gatherings that involve a conversation like aspect. Problem here is that it is very easy for the interpreter to overshadow the main speaker. At the end of the day, an interpreter is a very important link in the communication process and should therefore be a professional one. This is to ensure accuracy when delivering the message to the audience in the form intended by the source of that very message.

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