INTERPRETER & TRANSLATOR. wHAT'S THE diff?

By Sybil Collier

INTERPRETER OR TRANSLATOR? Even the most informed people will accidentally interchange these two  terms. It's totally understandable and an easy mistake.

A lot of people make this mistake because the phenomenon they are trying to describe IS a translation of one language to another. That is true. However...

HERE IS THE DIFFERENCE:

An interpreter INTERPRETS the spoken word 

​& 

A translator TRANSLATES the written word.

Some interpreters are also translators and vice versa....but not that's not always the case.