Tag Archives: interpreting

Getting that Job

Posted on 04/07/2019 by Cindy Roat

by Cynthia E. Roat, MPH Past blogs on this site have talked about how community interpreters are contracted: as full- or part-time staff or as freelancers, working directly for healthcare or social service institutions or through language service providers (sometimes … Continue reading →

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A Day in the Life of a Community Interpreter

Posted on 12/01/2018 by Cindy Roat

What’s it like to be a community interpreter? Before you go to the trouble to get trained and certified, don’t you wish you could tag along with someone first, just to see what it’s like? Well, here’s your chance. I … Continue reading →

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Bilingual or Interpreter?

Posted on 10/04/2018 by Cindy Roat

Question for today: Can any bilingual person interpret? Consider the concert pianist. She sweeps onto the stage in a floor length gown, bows to the applauding crowd, seats herself gracefully at the gleaming black Steinway grand piano. She bows her … Continue reading →

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The World of a Community Interpreter

Posted on 09/07/2018 by Cindy Roat

Question: In what profession can you assist at a birth, sign a family up for Medicaid, achieve justice for a victim of fraud, teach a patient to calculate his insulin dosage, get welfare benefits for a single mom, rescue a … Continue reading →

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