Interpreters and Conference Interpreting

hello!
I've been checking the forum for quite some time now and I have never come across any Greek A speakers.
I myself would be interested in pursuing a career in conference interpreting, in which case my language combination would be Greek A, English C, French C and German C.
I would appreciate any information about the career perspectives and masters including Greek as A language plus my working languages.
For example I have read the leaflet of ESIT but it remains unclear to me if they accept students with Greek A.
Thanks in advance for any information!

If you want to find out if ESIT accepts students with Greek A, the best thing to do would be to email and ask. It's always best to go right to the source. In the event they don't, they'll still be able to point you in the right direction. You might also want to check out the following links just in case they don't.

http://www.enl.auth.gr/interpret_master/desc_en.html
http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/postgraduate/translating.htm
http://www.hum.ucy.ac.cy/ENG/postgradua ... reting.htm
http://www.hau.gr/?i=hau.en.edu_translation

HTH

Alana is right. Off the top of my head I think they require you to have at least an ACCC (quadrilingual) combination if you have Greek or Italian as your A language (so that would not be a problem for you).

thanks a lot!
i'll follow your advice and contact directly the ESIT.

that is a very good combination for the Greek booth in the EU institutions. The Greek booth is one where you can "get a way" with fewer languages, many interpreters only have 2 passive languages and your combination includes the most frequently spoken langauges.
edna

Speaking of which, how easy (or difficult if you'd like) is it to get a place in an EU institution?
I read some replies to Hannah about this subject and it really got me thinking...

"all" you have to do is pass a freelance accreditation test! Piece of cake;)

the EU will not generally allow you to take an accreditation test if you don't have a Diploma from an interpreting school. So the first thing you would need to do is graduate successfully. Once you've done that you apply for a test. This may now be done through one of the institutions websites, but you could equally do it the old-fashioned way and ring up the head of greek interpreting at the Commission or the Parliament and ask them, given your Diploma and your combination, whether they would be interested in giving you a test.

the test itself will consist of 1 consec of 5-6 minutes and 1 sim of 10-12 minutes for each of your languages. (Into Greek if you have C lang.s)

it's difficult to say if this is "difficult" or not. You "just" have to get pretty much all of it exactly right. The idea being you demonstrate a level equivalent to "professional"

edna