How Interpreters Work | Jacolyn Harmer, Gabriel Guillen & Laura Burian | TEDxStevensonSchool

How many languages do you speak? Do you ever wonder how global leaders understand each other during international conferences? In this talk, Laura Burian, Gabriel Guillen, and Jacolyn Harmer share their language learning stories with a group of interpreters demonstrating simultaneous interpretation. Jacolyn Harmer, born and educated in the UK, earned her BA in French/German at the University of Bradford before training as a conference interpreter at the European Communities (now European Union) in Brussels where she served, initially as a staff interpreter and then as a freelancer, for international institutions and the private market. Professor Harmer joined the (then) Monterey Institute of International Studies’ Graduate School of Translation & Interpretation faculty as a full-time translation and interpretation professor in 1985, combining teaching with her freelance professional practice. Her clients have ranged from heads of state and government to medical missions in the global South. She earned her Ma