Interpreting Training

Language Quills offers bi-lingual individuals exciting and challenging opportunities at different levels that are steeped into their unique cultures.

Our pool of professionally trained interpreters is recruited directly from immigrant and refugee communities in the area. They are screened for language proficiency.

Before being considered for the interpreter pool, candidates must demonstrate strong credentials such as: passing rigorous language assessment examinations, and/or completing certified interpreter training courses that teaches interpreting skills and protocol that emphasize:

Confidentiality and professionalism
Interpreter roles and boundaries
Ethics, values and cultural dilemmas
Memory development and sight translations
Interpreter code of ethics
Cultural barriers

All interpreters must:

+Pass criminal background check

+Have Negative TB Test, current MMR Vaccination, and Hepatitis B vaccination (for those conducting medical interpretation)

+Valid drivers license