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In many countries, there exists an interpretation market for the national language plus English. The other languages most in demand depend on the markets and the circuit. Thus, in Europe language demand varies a great deal and is very diversified. In Africa demand is mainly for English, French with sometimes Arabic, Portuguese, and more rarely Spanish. In the Asia-Pacific region English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese are the most sought-after languages, with sometimes German, Korean and Russian. The emerging countries are equally emerging in the sense that their national languages are gradually coming onto the interpretation scene as working languages (this is particularly the case with Thai and Indonesian). In the Americas, there is a demand for Chinese, French, Portuguese and Japanese, in addition to English and Spanish. Additionally, when a meeting is held in a country where the language spoken is not one of the official conference languages, there may be a requirement for interpretation into and out of that language. As mentioned previously, these enumerations are given by way of example only; they are by no means exhaustive and are subject to change. Anybody contemplating training as a conference interpreter would therefore be well advised to consult a practising interpreter before starting a course.
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