Community Interpreter ACTUAL
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What is community interpreting? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A specialization of
interpreting that facilitates access to community services.
Define medical interpreting - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Interpreting for patients, their
families and healthcare providers.
A medical interpreters are community interpreters? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Yes
What is the purpose of interpreting? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅To facilitate
communication between two parties who do not share a common language.
Describe communicative autonomy - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The capacity of each party
in the encounter to be responsible for and in control of her or her own communication.
Which area of community interpreting has become the most professionalized? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Medical or healthcare interpreting
List the minimum requirements for a community interpreter to practice as an interpreter? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Be 18 years old, Have a high school or secondary school
diploma or equivalent, Have proof of language proficiency, Have a certificate for 40 hours of
interpreter training
Describe the difference between a certificate and certification. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Both are credentials. But a certificate is a piece of paper. A certificate might
attest that you attended a program or workshop or conference. Certification is a process. It
involves a rigorous evaluation of interpreter skills and usually includes written exam
followed by and oral skills exam.
Which kinds of organizations develop recognized certification programs for interpreters? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The interpreting professions broadly, at least in North America,
, recognize only those certification programs developed by federal or state/provincial
governments and professional bodies.
If you graduate successfully from a 40-hour interpreting program, are you certified? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅No. You are professionally trained. If you have also been tested
for language proficiency, you can refer to yourself as qualified.
Name the organizations in the United States that provide national medical interpreter
certification. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅CCHI (Certification for Healthcare Interpreters
and NBCMI (The National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters)
Is there national U.S. certification for community interpreters? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅No. But there is state certification, in the state of Washington only, for
bother medical and social services interpreters.
What is code of ethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A set of directives that specifies the
requirements or expectations intended to guide the conduct of practitioners of a profession. In
other words, ethics are the strictest requirements of any profession.
Why do ethics matter? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅They help you make decisions in
difficult situations. They guide you about "right and wrong" in your work and conduct.
What are standards of practice? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A set of formal guidelines that
offer practitioner of a profession clear strategies and courses of action to support professional
conduct. In other words, standards are the guidelines on how to support your ethics and
perform at a professional level.
List some differences between ethics and standards of practice - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Ethics are "rules". Standards are the guidelines, Ethics are what we should
do. Standards are how we do it., Ethics are the goal. Standards are the way we get there.,
Ethics are more strict; standards are more flexible.
Spell out what NCIHC stands for. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅National Council on
Interpreting in Health Care.
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What is community interpreting? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A specialization of
interpreting that facilitates access to community services.
Define medical interpreting - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Interpreting for patients, their
families and healthcare providers.
A medical interpreters are community interpreters? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Yes
What is the purpose of interpreting? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅To facilitate
communication between two parties who do not share a common language.
Describe communicative autonomy - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The capacity of each party
in the encounter to be responsible for and in control of her or her own communication.
Which area of community interpreting has become the most professionalized? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Medical or healthcare interpreting
List the minimum requirements for a community interpreter to practice as an interpreter? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Be 18 years old, Have a high school or secondary school
diploma or equivalent, Have proof of language proficiency, Have a certificate for 40 hours of
interpreter training
Describe the difference between a certificate and certification. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Both are credentials. But a certificate is a piece of paper. A certificate might
attest that you attended a program or workshop or conference. Certification is a process. It
involves a rigorous evaluation of interpreter skills and usually includes written exam
followed by and oral skills exam.
Which kinds of organizations develop recognized certification programs for interpreters? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The interpreting professions broadly, at least in North America,
, recognize only those certification programs developed by federal or state/provincial
governments and professional bodies.
If you graduate successfully from a 40-hour interpreting program, are you certified? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅No. You are professionally trained. If you have also been tested
for language proficiency, you can refer to yourself as qualified.
Name the organizations in the United States that provide national medical interpreter
certification. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅CCHI (Certification for Healthcare Interpreters
and NBCMI (The National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters)
Is there national U.S. certification for community interpreters? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅No. But there is state certification, in the state of Washington only, for
bother medical and social services interpreters.
What is code of ethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A set of directives that specifies the
requirements or expectations intended to guide the conduct of practitioners of a profession. In
other words, ethics are the strictest requirements of any profession.
Why do ethics matter? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅They help you make decisions in
difficult situations. They guide you about "right and wrong" in your work and conduct.
What are standards of practice? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A set of formal guidelines that
offer practitioner of a profession clear strategies and courses of action to support professional
conduct. In other words, standards are the guidelines on how to support your ethics and
perform at a professional level.
List some differences between ethics and standards of practice - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Ethics are "rules". Standards are the guidelines, Ethics are what we should
do. Standards are how we do it., Ethics are the goal. Standards are the way we get there.,
Ethics are more strict; standards are more flexible.
Spell out what NCIHC stands for. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅National Council on
Interpreting in Health Care.
