"interpreter" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who translates from one language to another, or from one form of communication to another. For example, you could say, "The interpreter was essential for communicating between the two parties."
He became a leading interpreter of the mainstream repertoire – in particular the symphonies of Mahler and Shostakovich, and the concertos of Brahms – but also of his country's music, which he conducted with a poignancy, briskness, power and beauty that borders on the unbearable.
I had a first-aid kit so I tried to help using that until the ambulance arrived," she remembers, speaking through an interpreter.
As a result he was much in demand as an interpreter of 20th-century English music, and of two composers' work in particular.
"This is a very good place to live," says the interpreter, 55, who moved from Afghanistan to the UK 19 years ago.
I volunteered as an interpreter, as well as at the kitchen in the occupied Kiev city council and I worked with people from all over Ukraine.
Hilton, used to prowling the corridors of No 10 shoeless and in shorts, acted as interpreter between the artistic genius and the Whitehall suits.
An interpreter, Sonia Vukovic, is on hand to help out but it's still not easy to see what Christiane really means.
Francisco Gonzalez, a Spanish photographer who worked as an interpreter during five expeditions on Soviet trawlers of the same make as the Dalny Vostok between 1983 and 1987, told the Guardian that the work was highly dangerous.
"You sometimes get a singer who is an amazing interpreter, or you get a writer working behind the scenes, but to have the two together and still keep that kind of innocence is very special.
An interpreter working for the Immigration Department, Azita Bokan, also said she saw asylum seekers with "massive head injuries" at the makeshift hospital and said she saw one patient with a slashed throat.
Using his son as an interpreter, he put it like this: that the Amazon matters because right now it is where humanity – you, me – is making its biggest decisions: raw, hard, critical decisions.
