What's the difference in translating and interpreting?

This is a repost from last year as it is something I am writing about a lot as I prepare for the European Conference and providing interpretation into various European languages.

This is a question I have been asking myself for a while as I have noticed in CEF that we tend to use the terms interchangeably. The quick answer is:

Interpreters deal with spoken language and translate orally, while translators deal with written text...

What we do in the Autumn CMLCs and at conferences is not translation, it is interpretation! Or to put it more accurately, it is consecutive interpretation! Simultaneous interpretation occurs when the speaker doesn't make any breaks and the interpreter listens and talks at the same time (usually by whispering or while in a cabin).
When a CEF literature worker takes an English Bible lesson text and works on putting it into another written language, they are translating.

On the surface, the difference between interpreting and translation is the mode of expression. Interpreters deal with spoken language and translate orally, while translators deal with written text, transforming the source text into a comprehensible and equivalent target text. Both interpreting and translation presuppose a love of language and deep knowledge of more than one language. However, the differences in the training, skills, and talents needed for each job are vast. (Read more)

Children's Ministry Leadership Course

Visiting Every Home Crusade

It was great last January to accompany Bogdan (our multi-media Director) on a visit to Revival Movement's new factory near Lisburn, N. Ireland. They supply literature free of charge (an average of 4 Tonnes of paper each day!!!) to missions, churches, pastors and Christian workers in over 120 countries.

They have been a tremendous help to CEF in recent years printing hundreds of thousands of Meet the King booklets.
Right now they are printing half a Million lessons for our Bible correspondence courses in 4 different languages.

500 JYCs in Europe!

In 2009 we crossed the line and opened the 500th JYC in Europe!
Praise God for the impact this ministry is making in the lives of many 11-15 year olds. We estimate that we are now reaching over 5,600 junior teens.
(This is up from 470 and 5,300 in 2008.)

Our top 6 countries are:

• Russia – 143
• Romania – 77
• Armenia – 50
• Ireland – 45
• Ukraine – 40
• Germany – 22
  

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Registered for the European Conference yet?

CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATIONS – 26 March 2010


CEF EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
11-18 May 2010 – Schwäbisch-Gmünd – Germany

Interview

Gary Boal has published an interview he did with me. Click here to read it.

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CEF Ireland just published a profile of us here

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CMLC at Kilchzimmer

One of my new responsibilities in the Education Department are the 3 Children's Ministry Leadership Courses (CMLC) that we have at Kilchzimmer each year. Samantha supports us as registrar - processing applications, answering students questions, giving administrative help to the visiting teachers, etc. Martha is the CMLC supervisor and deals with the day-to-day running of each 12 week course - caring for the students, meeting regularly with visiting teachers, organising classes, ensuring the smooth running of the course and harmony in close community life 'up on the hill'.
This week I am teaching again in the German class and enjoying very much the interaction with the students. I consider it a real privilege to be allocated time to invest in training future CEF workers and those who will go back to their churches to 'teach children more effectively'. Through illness I have had to organise replacement teachers at very short notice and I even had to jump in and teach some extra classes myself.
Please pray for our 33 students who will be with us until 18 December (DV).

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