Chinese Consecutive and Face-to-Face Interpreting Service In Cumbria

Forms of Chinese interpreting

There are a number of forms of interpreting, but you can roughly place them within 2 categories:

• Consecutive
• Simultaneous

Consecutive interpreting is when one person speaks in one language, leaves a pause, and meanwhile the interpreter will verbally interpret what has been said in the other language.

Simultaneous interpreting is much more intense. Two interpreters will work in tandem delivering the interpretation at the same time as the speech.

Forms of Chinese consecutive interpreting

• Face-to-face
• Remote via video link
• Via telephone

Our Chinese face-to-face interpreters will travel on-site to help you communicate with your overseas visitors. We have interpreters based all over the UK (and beyond!) and so we will send the closest available to your location.

If you need an interpreter to attend via Zoom (or a similar platform), we can arrange this too. Just let us know what day, what time and send us the link so that the interpreter can join.

We also offer Chinese consecutive interpreters via telephone. This service is actually available in over 200 languages, 24/7, 365 days of the year. Just visit our telephone interpreting page to find out more.

Our Chinese interpreters

Our vetted interpreters can speak at least two languages, they understand the need for punctuality and compliance with any security or other matters when on clients’ premises.

Our Chinese consecutive interpreters must generally have appropriate qualifications or be able to demonstrate a minimum of 200 days relevant work over a period of five years. Depending on the sensitivity of the subject matter, we are also able to provide interpreters with various levels of security clearances:

• Counter terrorist check
• DBS enhanced certificate
• DBS standard certificate
• Disclosure Northern Ireland certificate enhanced
• Disclosure Scotland enhanced
• Disclosure Scotland standard
• Home Office security clearance
• MoD security clearance
• Police clearance

We assign a project manager to every assignment to ensure the project runs smoothly and is delivered on time and within budget.
Just let us know how we can help you.

In what sort of settings do our Chinese consecutive interpreters work?

• Documentary and film makers’ studios
• Courts
• Police stations
• Solicitors’ offices
• Hospitals
• Surgeries
• Business meetings
• Human resources meetings
• Immigration centres
• Schools
• Tours
• Weddings

How is the cost for Chinese consecutive interpreting calculated?

The cost depends whether the interpreter will need to attend on-site or via video link.
The cost depends on availability of particular interpreters on date and time in question.

Get in touch with one of our lovely project managers and they would be very happy to discuss all the available options with you.

Do also take a look at the security procedures and infrastructure we already have in place to protect your data.

While you’re here… some quite interesting facts about the Chinese language

Chinese is an umbrella term to describe various languages. Accounting for 70% of Chinese speakers, Mandarin is more widely spoken than any other form of Chinese – with some 955 million native speakers globally. That’s 14% of the world’s total population. In fact, there are more native Mandarin speakers in the world than speakers of any other language. Mandarin is just one of several Chinese dialect groups, which can be kind of confusing. In places like Taiwan and People’s Republic of China it’s the official language. Mandarin dialects are spoken throughout most of northern and southwestern China. Despite their similarities, some Mandarin dialects are actually not “mutually intelligible”. Other varieties of Chinese include Wu, Xiang, Yue, Min, Hakka and Gan. It is written using traditional characters. Written using simplified characters, Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a variety of the Chinese language spoken around Canton (Guangzhou) and its vicinity in southeastern China. In mainland China, it is the lingua franca of the province of Guangdong and neighbouring areas such as Guangxi, being the majority language of the Pearl River Delta. It is the dominant and official language of Hong Kong and Macau. Cantonese is also widely spoken amongst overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia (most notably in Vietnam and Malaysia, as well as in Singapore and Cambodia to a lesser extent) and throughout the Western world.

Where is Chinese most widely spoken?