Гульноза Абдуллаева, Хушнуда Самигова
Over the past few decades, interpreting services have become a main section of international communication. Although there is a high request for interpreting, being able to interpret at a professional level is far from being easy. There is much discussion on the qualities an interpreter should obtain to perform to the best of their capasitie – arguably, one of the most important is that of anticipation in simultaneous interpreting. Perhaps surprisingly, simultaneous interpreters do not always interpret a phrase directly after the speaker, for respecting this natural order can turn out to be impossible thanks to the grammatical structures of sentences in different languages. Due to this difficulty, interpreters sometimes have no other choice but to anticipate what the speaker is going to say, and convey that before the speaker does. While first reactions to anticipation may be skeptical – can an interpreter really predict what a speaker will say – it is actually a quite refined and quite necessary skill in
order for interpreters to faithfully convey speech while maintaining the natural flow of communication.
