English-French interpreter in Abidjan

Consecutive interpreting suits most business meetings. The speaker talks for a few sentences and pauses, then the interpreter gives the same message in the other language. It takes a little longer, but nothing gets lost and nobody needs equipment.

Liaison interpreting is for small groups on the move. The interpreter stays at your side during a site visit, a working lunch or a round of courtesy calls, and works both ways as the conversation goes.

Simultaneous interpreting happens in real time from a booth, with headsets for the audience. It needs two interpreters working in turns and dedicated equipment, so it is quoted separately. It fits conferences and large workshops.

Delegations meeting Ivorian ministries, agencies or business partners. Suppliers and buyers visiting a factory, a construction site or a warehouse. Commercial negotiations where precise wording matters. Audits, when the auditor interviews staff and goes through records kept in French. Internal NGO workshops are another case, when part of the team works in English and part in French.

Send the agenda and the list of participants with their job titles as early as you can. Add the documents that will be on the table: the slide deck, the draft agreement, last year's audit report.

A short glossary helps more than anything else. List your acronyms, product names and the technical terms of your sector. For a site visit, tell us whether safety equipment is required at the gate. If some documents should be read in French before the meeting, our business document translation service can handle them.