interpreter

Ian Andersen, external communication adviser at the European Commission's Directorate General for Interpretation, talks to Business Spotlight about the work of interpreters ahead of the Expolingua Berlin from 20–22 November 2009. Business Spotlight is media partner of Expolingua.

UNITED STATES: Interpreters' services are routinely used in the US to sell products over the phone to non-native speakers of English. Increasingly, however, the interpreters have to deliver bad news, such as when the bank plans to foreclose on a house.