Interpreter Training:
- 12-hour Basic Skills of Interpreting workshop
- Maine Court Interpreter Program
- 100-hour Medical Interpreting Training
Continuing Education Workshops:
Freelance Interpreting Business Worksop
- How to succeed as a freelance interpreter?
- What does it mean to be an independent contractor?
- Which business expenses can freelance interpreters deduct to reduce taxes?
This workshop will provide you answers to these questions and other information useful for freelance interpreters in Maine.
Presenter: John Scribner, Business Counselor from Coastal Enterprises Inc's StartSmart Program
Next Training Date & Time: TBD
Fee: Free
Multilingual Glossary Project
As a result of Interpreting for Torture Survivors workshop, Maine interpreters and translators created multilingual glosssaries of terms related to torture:
- Arabic Glossary
- Bosnian Glossary
- Farsi Glossary
- French Glossary
- Kinyarwanda Glossary
- Russian Glossary
- Somali Glossary
- Spanish Glossary
- Ukrainian Glossary
- Vietnamese Glossary
Glossaries help interpreters and translators better understand the key concepts that leads to linguistic consistency. Kudos to the Nadia Al Qaisy, Deqa Dhalac, Gordana Donlan, Ghomri Rostampour, Barbara Clark, Cynthia Barnard, Sebastien Nahimana, Jovin Bayingana, Olha Davis, Sandra Ricker, and LienHoa Pham for finalizing the translations!
Interpreting for Torture Survivors workshop was offered in collaboration with City of Portland Refugee Services, Community Counseling Center, and Catholic Charities Maine Refugee & Immigration Services.
Frequently Used Documents that interpreters might be asked to sight translate or interpret in Maine:
Application for Re-Certification
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