Is Specialized Interpreting Training Worth The Investment?
Specialized interpreting training provides practical experience that is centered around a specific industry. Some prime examples range from medical interpreter training to legal interpreter training, because each of those classes are specifically geared toward their respective industries. Our Medical interpreter students learn how to provide language interpreting services for patients with a Limited English Proficiency (LEP). Therefore, all of the medical interpreting techniques are the ones best suited for a hospital environment. Medical interpreter vocabulary will include medical terminology while incorporating basic anatomy and physiology principles.
"Specialized interpreting training" means that the entire class is focused on preparing students to work in a specific industry. Thus, the interpreting training education for healthcare is vastly different than legal interpreter training for courtrooms. Both of which are specialized interpreting training courses but they are specialized for different industries.
To be a successful language interpreter, you need specialized training to confidently provide accurate interpretations during high-stakes situations. It is important to mention, that our type of training does come with a higher price tag than some other courses available by competitors. However, the decision of whether or not it's worth the cost is up to you....
3 important features of our specialized interpreting training:
1. Quality VS cost
Our online interpreting courses are taught LIVE, through interactive webinar sessions and led by experienced instructors. Other courses are cheaper because they are self taught. Sure, there will be videos and required readings, but it is a process to get questions answered. Furthermore, there is no one to correct you or provide feedback or engage in discussions that enhance your learning experience. Our instructors bring humor and personality to the classroom, which brings enjoyable human interactions that are missing from other courses.
By combining the convenience of remote learning with the quality of a traditional classroom environment, we go above and beyond the bare minimum. We understand that adult life is hard and demanding, especially if you have other people relying on you and your ability to provide. When debating a career change, consider this: many of our remote interpreter students actually tried to save money and completed those self-taught courses first. Unfortunately for them, those cheaper interpreting training courses didn't actually cover the minimum and so, ended up paying more in the long run by enrolling in ours after finding out the hard way.
2. Building community
Language interpreter school is a financial investment that not only creates successful bilingual careers, but a community as well. By structuring our curriculum with live and interactive webinars, adult students learn alongside future peers. By sharing progress & discussing challenges during class, we provide a space that can build your support system and professional network long after class is dismissed for the last time. Developing relationships with your instructors and classmates alike creates a community that isn't achievable with a self-paced, lecture-video course.
3. The limit does not exist
Many of the affordable interpreter training courses follow a self-taught model that allows each students to progress through the content at different paces. Through a series of pre-recorded videos, you finish the course having learned only what was selected in that curriculum.
The very nature of language interpreter courses requires language proficiency, quick thinking, cultural sensitivity and emotive conversation through body language. Students in the self-taught method must interpret complex information on their own without guidance or feedback. They must apply concepts from a specific example into every context of every-day conversation. Only to discover too late that true instruction doesn't have limits to concepts learned in class.
Our online translator classes are taught by expert instructors ✅ who have real-world experience in their interpreting specialty. They have worked hard to make fully remote online courses that are unique and engaging ✅ using a hands-on approach that is unparalleled by the competition. If you or someone you know is interested in our online Medical Interpreter Training Programs with live instruction✅, our fully remote yet real time classes ✅ are offered in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Vietnamese, Farsi, French, Hindi, Korean, Somali, Urdu, Ukrainian languages online and onsite.
