Drawing on Over Two Decades of Experience as an Interpreter and translator for the United Nations, James Nolan explores a broad range of issues that arise in the context of international situations. This book is designed to address the needs of international conference interpreters, as well as diplomatic or consular personnel whose duties include interpretation.Conference Interpretation offers a systemic topic-by-topic treatment with exercises that can be used independently or in a classroom context. Exercises are designed to help interpreters perfect their ability to listen to a spoken message in a source language and to render it orally, consecutively or simultaneously, into a target language. Though focused on the working languages of English, French, and Spanish, exercises can be adapted to most other working languages.