The figure and profession of the interpreter have known many turning points in the history of humanity. Ancient Egypt, Rome in the west and the Arabs in the east, explorers, scientists: the need to simultaneously transmit messages in a language other than one’s own has animated the civilizations and personalities who have contributed to the development and survival of mankind.

Today, if we stop to think about it, it is not so very different.

The interpreter is a professional who is responsible for making it possible, through timely translation, to interview or correspond between persons of different languages. Interpreting is an activity which consists in establishing oral or sign communication between two or more participants in a conversation who do not share the same linguistic code.