Multilingualism Week at UJ Soweto kicks off
UJ’s Soweto campus to host Multilingualism Week from 26 to 29 March.
The ATKV & UJ Multilingualism Week, set to take place at UJ’s Soweto campus from 26 to 29 March 2014, supports multilingualism not only in theory but also in practice.
While speakers at the event are given the opportunity to speak in their language of choice, listeners may listen to simultaneously interpreted renditions of the speeches in Afrikaans, South Sotho, English or Zulu.
By providing interpreting services for the event, the organisers therefore afford participants the opportunity to follow the event in their own language.
Interpreters will be working in the simultaneous mode and render the original speech into the other languages while the speech is being delivered, which means that listeners can follow the event in real time without any time delay.
The interpreters will be working from sound-insulated interpreting booths (kindly sponsored by Congress Rental) during larger events at which listeners in the audience will be provided with headsets through which the interpreted version will be transmitted.
For smaller events, portable microphones and headsets will be used with interpreters being present directly in the venue itself – a form of interpreting referred to as whispered interpreting or chuchotage.
