What Is My Experience As A Volunteer Interpreter

Decent Essays
There are no specific hardships I would like the committee to give special attention while evaluating my application. While Spanish is my first language, and I do not speak English as a native, I do speak English fluently and completely understand it. The experience of living in the United States for more than 6 years, and going to college in the United States have made my English skills stronger, and it will not be a problem for me, my professors, classmates, or patients. My current experience as a volunteer interpreter, as well as the experience from my job and from the courses I am taking at the Master’s program are strengthening my verbal and written English skills.

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    I know must of the Hispanics immigrants here come to work and give their family a better life so they don’t really have much time to learn English because they are more focusing on having a better life. However, in my opinion, there are no excuses to not learn English because where there’s a will there’s a way. Cox starts her essay by telling the story of a Spanish-speaking mother who loses…

    • 605 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Court appointed interpreters use several different techniques in conveying messages from litigants (applicant or adverse) to the judge. These modes include consecutive, simultaneous, and summary interpreting (cite). Consecutive interpreting involves the rendering of statements after the speaker stops speaking. Simultaneous interpreting occurs whilst the speaker speaks. Lastly, summary interpreting is largely used to interpret witness testimony (cite).…

    • 487 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    According to American Counseling Association, vicarious trauma is, “The term vicarious trauma… sometimes also called compassion fatigue, is the latest term that describes the phenomenon associated with the ‘cost of carrying’ for others” (2011). An interpreter’s job is to convey communication from one person to another person. Sign language interpreters also do this while interpreting, but there are more parts to this process than just language between the clients. First, sign language is a language all on its own. Meaning that this language has different parts to it than just signs.…

    • 1476 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    - I am in a Dean List every semester since I enrolled at Kellogg Community College. - I serve Youth Treasurer in our Church, and I have learned many things from that experience including the value of teamwork and time management. For example, when we did fundraising for our youth branch, we (youth members) worked together as a team and be able to finish our task easily. And, although my schedule was very tight with homework and family job, I managed my time and maintained a very good grade point…

    • 91 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I currently try to apply for my citizenship since I had been a resident for almost 30 years and over 55 years old I qualified to do the test in Spanish. I applied for the fee waiver base on my years of resident and age but it got denied. Now, I will submit my application again in the next months. I can provide you with proof of my…

    • 159 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The report was obtained through the use of a Spanish translator. The reporting party (RP) stated she was employed with the preschool for approximately 8 years prior to her termination on 11/15/16. According to the RP her termination was due to multiple complaints made to the principal Sandrine Bellairs and the owner (name unknown). The RP stated she made several complaints throughout her employment regarding the cleanliness of the facility and how the children became ill as a result. Specifically the floors a seldom mopped, the furnishings are not wiped down regularly, toys are not sanitized etc.…

    • 211 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Peace Corps Volunteer

    • 412 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Being a Peace Corps Volunteer would be an incredible opportunity that I would be honored to take part in. I want to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer because I want to spread my passion for learning and teaching English, and give people the gift of education in order to empower them and allow them to experience more avenues of life. As a long time English major, I have come to know that there is a great strength that comes with writing. I have seen fellow students move people with their words, and strongly communicate their ideas and having the ability to teach students these skills fills me with a profound joy. Moreover, the Peace Corps presents an opportunity to experience everything I love in life: traveling, experiencing and interacting…

    • 412 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I’m pursuing a Spanish and biology double major with a psychology minor - I propose that my directed study be a combination of all of these things: I would like to learn how to communicate effectively and respectfully in the medical field to spanish speaking individuals. I plan on studying how Spanish speaking individuals and families approach medicine, how living in the United States makes receiving medical care difficult, and ways to make Spanish speaking individuals and families more comfortable in a mostly english speaking country while pursuing medical advice. I will study medical Spanish with Dr. Mark McGraw. I plan on first studying the problems that are encountered when Spanish speaking individuals are in a medical field, how spanish…

    • 285 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Thank you for your comments. Learning another language in order to serve another community much better that shows an act of compassion. Global health and the global economic crisis affect the entire world, and no one would be exempt from this catastrophic. We as the nurse practitioners, our presence may not prevent or save the world from the global health and the global economic crisis, but will make a difference. There are many organizations that need people from health care to volunteer to provide health care to certain who need this type of service desperately.…

    • 253 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Interpreter Maladies

    • 242 Words
    • 1 Pages

    The execution of contributing factors such as distorted communication, degrading unexpressed feelings, and deceitful misconception convey how it can have drastic affects, not only on the characters themselves, but others around them in a negative way that can alter the bond or relationships such as the story “Interpreter Maladies” through the Das family and Mr.Kapasi. In this story Lahiri tries to illustrate the importance of relationships and these factors can make or break them and lead on to adverse problems like the lack of communication between Mr. Kapasi and his wife, or the lack of enjoyment in Mrs. Das marriage which led her to adultery. A Lahiri makes the claim that a relationship is only as strong as the effort that is put into to…

    • 242 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Statistics show that the Mexican-American race has the highest number of people that populate the United States, and this demographic continues to grow even more. A Mexican-American is an American of full or partial Mexican decent. My parents, both born in Mexico, migrated to the United States in search of a better future for themselves and children. Because of my Hispanic roots, and my birth in the U.S., I am considered a Mexican-American. As a result of my equivalent exposure to two different cultures, I grew up being bilingual.…

    • 1014 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    V. said we do English and Spanish every day at circle time and everything in the class is labeled with Spanish and English and the books in the library are the same way.” Ms. V chose this field because she loves children and she wants to see that the children know their language and they were not forgot about when they were learning English. Mrs. V’ s native language is Spanish and she is from Mexico City. She started learning English at the age of 13. Mrs. V, said, “yes she was fluent in her native language before she started speaking English.”.…

    • 1713 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Volunteering One day, I walked to my friends house. Her mom had just had a baby boy. Just by looking at her, I could tell she was exhausted. So I offered to babysit the baby, so she wouldn’t have to worry about when her baby's diaper needed to be changed, or when he needed to be fed. She said I didn’t have to, but she knew I had a baby brother.…

    • 215 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Volunteer Experience Reflection I dedicated fifteen hours to the Head Start Program. For 8 weeks I helped in the classroom and met 25 beautiful children. Each child was unique in their own way. The Head Start Program is predominately White but that didn’t change how they interacted with one another.…

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    How I got to view the world through the eyes of others through my volunteer experiences. When you get to do that and learn something new but other ways to help you are truly outstanding. There are so many things that first attracted me to volunteering. Of course, it was advertised in a way to volunteer for yourself to gain experience however I was attracted by how a little can mean the world to someone else. I help others to simple help, not to gain as advertised.…

    • 656 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays