Finding the right professionals for your project starts with knowing what kind of professional you need. Both interpreting and translation presuppose a certain love of language and a deep knowledge of more than one tongue. The differences in the training, skills, and talents are vastly different for interpreters and translators. For this reason, professional translators almost always work in only one direction, translating only into their native language. Even bilingual individuals can rarely express themselves in a given subject equally well in two languages.
Many excellent translators are far from being bilingual.
Professional translators must have the ability to understand the source language and the culture of the country where the text originated. With the help of a good library of dictionaries and reference materials, they render the material into the target language. A truly professional translator will translate only into his or her native language. The Interpreter A professional interpreter must be able to translate orally in both directions, in real-time, without the use of dictionaries. In the most popular form of simultaneous interpreting, the interpreter sits in a booth wearing a pair of headphones and speaks into a microphone.