In addition, there are some training programs exclusively for interpreters; for example, the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest offers a European Master’s in Conference Interpreting and a two-semester training program for Court Interpreters, while the Technical University of Budapest offers a post-graduate interpreter training program in conference interpreting.

The research reported in this volume was carried out at the University of Szeged, and the four participating students attended the University’s Master’s Program in Translation and Interpreting. The MA programs in translation and interpreting are four-semester programs where students have to apply with A, B, and C languages (Table 4.1). As concerns the interpreting stream, during the first two semesters students have classes in interpreting techniques (A to B, B to A, C to A). At the end of the second semester, students choose a specialization, which can be either translation or interpreting. In the interpreting stream, students have three consecutive interpreting classes per semester: consecutive interpreting from A to B, B to A, and C to A. All this adds up to 336 hours of interpreting practice during interpreter training, together with three mock conferences for interpreting stream students during semesters three and four. During the course of their studies, interpreter trainees are required to complete a sixty-hour hour internship as well, which consists of 60 hours of consecutive, liaison, or sight interpreting.

At the University of Szeged, where this research was carried out, interpreters are trained partly by professional interpreters and partly by interpreter trainers. In the course of their training, students are first introduced to short-section consecutive interpreting, followed by longer sections and the gradual introduction of note-taking. Students also do some sight translation tasks. Simultaneous interpreting is not part of the MA training in interpreting in Hungary.