Application Of The Principle Of Simultaneous Interpretation In Practice

Rendering the basic techniques for simultaneous interpretation (SI), this report is going to analyze the simultaneous interpretation of Barack Obama’s speech after he won the2012American presidential campaign. In the report, the analysis will be conducted through exhaustive evaluation and the basic principles and techniques application in the SI for Obama’s speech.Simultaneous interpretation has so far enjoyed a fairly short history since its first application at the end of the First World War, while video SI has a shorter history of about50years, and video SI began to be used in China even later. Thanks to its punctuality, video SI is now enjoying an increasingly widespread acceptance. It facilitates us with the chance to know about what’s going on around the world without going out of door. With the help of the internet, we may download various kinds of video resources, thus video SI makes it possible to understand messages in different languages for those who know little or nothing about foreign languages. Consequently, increasingly large number of netizens now have access to various information on the internet. For example, countless people can watch the speech given by the president elect, Obama, after he won the2012presidential election. We can watch the live program without the barrier of understanding thanks to the help of SI which serves not only the professionals but the ordinary audiences, thus, the quality of SI greatly affects how well most audiences understand. Since SI plays such an important role in bridging audiences and foreign language program, the author of this report expects to do his own part of job to help more people know about SI, particularly video SI and to help to improve the interpretation quality on the interpreter’s part by analyzing the application of the principles and basic techniques of SI.