A Report On Business Interpreting—2019 Victoria Jiangsu Business Placement Program

The 2019 Victoria Jiangsu Business Placement Program,a joint initiative designed to deepen the business contacts,was held from May 11 to 17 in 2019.The reporter was assigned to Baby Scent,a natural skincare company and provided interpreting service for the director,Vana Borcich and the National Sales Manager,Greg Huf.In this report,the interpreter's actions are analyzed against the actual context within which she was working,and also with an eye to the problems and solutions that frame the main body of the report.Two major problems posed to the reporter can be divided into linguistic barriers and non-linguistic barriers.With respect to linguistic factors,the problems consist of insufficient knowledge of skincare related terminology as well as overemphasis on the forms rather than the meanings;in terms of non-linguistic factors,challenges include the reporter's failure in translating culture-specific concepts and misunderstanding of the interpreter's role.In this aspect,the reporter also presents corresponding solutions: interpreters can adopt the three-phase terminology approach and reformulate the speakers' words on the basis of meanings to clear up linguistic problems;interpreters should improve intercultural awareness and interpreting skills,and have a proper understanding of the interpreter's role to cope with non-linguistic problems.This report derived from the reporter's actual experience and previous studies aims to enrich the interpretation research and benefit future interpreters.