A Tour Guide Escort Interpreting Practical Report

Since reform and opening up policy, China, especially after being a member of WTO, has established increasingly closed political, economic, and cultural links with the whole world. As more and more international visitors come to China, tourism, has turned to be a very important activity of cultural communication after business negotiation. At the same time, escort interpreting has become an essential carrier for tourism.The task of an English tour guide is participating in a comprehensive practical activity. English tour guides not only have the responsibility to explain the English tour guide words but also have the duty to transmit Chinese culture. The escort interpreting, as a research direction, has gained more and more attention by the interpreting scholars and learners.Compared with the rigorous and serious conference interpreting and court interpreting, escort interpreting is more flexible and colloquial. This article is an English escort interpreting practical report, which is based on the background of "Chrysler Dealers First Semiannual Assembly" held in Dalian between July 21 st, 2014 to July 26 th. The writer analyzed the interpreting problems through the personal experience in practice. In order to solve the problems of pronunciation, vocabulary, figure interpreting, this article explored how to use literal interpreting, free interpreting and other methods.The writer wants to improve the interpreting quality and skills, and also hopes this practical report could offer some valuable references to the interpreters who are engaged in relevant fields or have the chance to use the related content.