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Interpreting is a highly specialised skill that will not suit all linguists, however proficient. It is usual for interpreters to specialise in either simultaneous interpreting (where you interpret what someone is saying at the same time as they are speaking) or consecutive interpreting (where you wait for the speaker to finish a few sentences and then interpret what has been said).

Translating calls for slightly different skills. Translators need a meticulous mind to search for the correct word or phrase and to make sure that they are clear about ambiguous or complicated wording. In literary translation, for example, the translator needs to recreate the literary effects the original novelist, playwright or poet intended in another language. 

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Proper spelling would be one tool. * intellectual 

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