Excellent Tips For Preparing Your Talk For Arabic Translation Specialists
January 30th, 2010
As a small business owner and consultant in international trade and communication, I get asked occasionally to give speeches to different groups about trends that I see shaping the global economy. Often, I am invited to universities throughout the world to talk to groups who aren’t fluent in English. Even in speeches that I give in the United States, often the audience is composed of non-English speaking members or the local business community. Since my last speech, I have been approached by a number of people that have requested tips on what I have picked up throughout my years of addressing now English speaking audiences. Even though some of this seems common knowledge, some might be some fresh ideas to help you.
To begin, I find it necessary to remind everyone that when speaking before an audience, you must come across as intelligent, articulate, confident, and likable. Suppose that you have been asked to talk talk to an association of Japanese Document Translation workers. These people paid money to hear you come and talk and they expect to see a person with great accomplishments. But for most business leaders, speaking before an audience is not easy. If you are a good public speaker, you gain instant credibility and well respected among the community of listeners. He or she will also be a better motivator and manager of people, whatever the career assignment, simply because so much of good management today requires good communication skills.
Having described the basic requirements, I will now provide some more pointed recommendations for speaking to foreign audiences. When in front of some audiences, you must really be conscious about how you use humor. Commody can help you to connect with and reach the audience and it can be done effectively through the use of cartoons and comic strips. As a brief word of caution, we should always perform an adequate amount of research into the humorous material that we use to present our content because there can often be non-deliberate harm done. For example, we might think that it is acceptable to use a funny skit from a Saudi Arabian television show to use in a presentation that is being given to a group of international English to Arabic Translation workers. Before you know it, a holy jihad breaks out in the meeting room and one side is throwing chairs at the other side. In the end, you are either one who is blamed and told to never return. Of course, something would have to go terribly wrong for it to reach that point. But always give the audience some additional time to digest and interpret the meaning. Sometimes, it takes a few extra moments. If you are told that the group of Russian Translation workers that you will be addressing is bilingual then find out if they were trained in British English or another dialect. If you learn that the Russians did indeed learn British English then you better be extra careful in your choice of words to use in your presentation. In many cases, British English words can have completely different means to people who have been taught US English.
