Translation vs Interpreting

Transfer message in written form

Easy access to reference books

Skills to understand SL (Source Language) and to write well in TL (Target Language)

Final product is invariably longer

Transfer message in verbal form

Interpreter is assumed to know every single word uttered by the speakers

Skills to transfer meaning of SL and to speak in TL comprehensibly

Outcome is shorter

Voice

Completeness

Accuracy

Diction

Pronunciation

Fluency

IDR 600,000 per hour (4 hours minimum)

IDR 4,000,000 for one day working (8 hours, starting from 08.00-16.00)

IDR 600,000 per additional hour/overtime

All accommodations are endorsed by the hiring company

Ability to abstract and paraphrase

Reaction time

Memory

Poise and presentation

Voice 

Understanding of and fluency in the source languages

Quality of the native language

Newspaper

Interview and speech scripts

Technical publications (papers, reports)

TV news, talk shows and documentaries

Recorded interviews and speeches

Live-meetings, seminars, and conferences

Read the printed material, stop after one or a few paragraphs and then interpret what have been read without looking at the text.

Try to interpret the printed material at the same time you are reading it.

Listen to the TV program and look at the translation text if any.

Listen to the TV program, cover the subtitles (if any), and interpret the utterances either consecutively or simultaneously.

Play the real-player files. Interpret them consecutively or simultaneously.