Unit One Course Description What is simultaneous interpretation? the interpreter speaks at the same time as the speaker. a nerve-racking and demanding job In simultaneous interpreting, the interpreter listens to the beginning of the speaker's comments then begins interpreting while the speech continues, carrying on throughout the speech, to finish almost at the same time as the original. The interpreter is thus speaking simultaneously to the original, hence again the name. "(Jones, 1997: 6)Unit One Course Description  What is simultaneous interpretation? the interpreter speaks at the same time as the speaker. a nerve-racking and demanding job In simultaneous interpreting, “the interpreter listens to the beginning of the speaker’s comments then begins interpreting while the speech continues, carrying on throughout the speech, to finish almost at the same time as the original. The interpreter is thus speaking simultaneously to the original, hence again the name.” (Jones, 1997:6)