The Difference Between an Interpreter and a Translator

Sharon James
1 min readJun 12, 2018

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Interpreter and Translator

There is one quite distinct difference between the translator and interpreter. A translator is responsible for translating text, while an interpreter’s role is to translate the spoken word in a live context. There is one quite distinct difference between the translator and interpreter.

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Sharon James

Project coordinator at MEDTRANS, an Australian provider of medical translation services and also has an interest in writing.