Translation is often referred to as the second oldest profession. Throughout the centuries it has enabled trade, diplomacy, and even holidays! It has helped ideas flourish and progress blossom.

All translation is more than simply exchanging one word for another. It is ensuring a message, an idea, a concept rendered in one language is faithfully expressed in another.

To the uninitiated, the terms interpreter/translator and interpreting/translating are often used interchangeably. However, they refer to very different skills and jobs.   If you didn’t know this, you are forgiven, and you are not alone. Fear not, however, as we can quickly and easily clarify the differences between the two.