THE SUBDIVISION OF LANGUAGES INTO A-B-C
- A: This is the mother tongue and generally indicates the language into which the interpreter translates with the greatest ease.
- B: The B language or “active language” can be considered as a second language for the purpose of interpreting and a language into which the interpreter translates very frequently.
- C: The C language or “passive language” is a language that the interpreter understands perfectly but does not speak as well as the B language.
Interpreters translate only into their mother tongue (A language) from the C languages.
An interpreter might work with many C languages.
MY LANGUAGE COMBINATIONS:
- ITALIAN A
- ENGLISH B
- FRENCH C
With this combinations I can work as I explain in the following paragraph :
SIMULTANEOUS, CONSECUTIVE , LIAISON AND CHUCHOTAGE
- English – Italian- English
- French-Italian
LIAISON INTERPRETING, CORPORATE VISITS
- English; French
TRANSLATIONS
- English- Italian-English
- French- Italian
