Language Connections Finds Hakka Interpreters for
MA Commission for the Blind
Massachusetts Commission for the Blind is a state agency which makes its services available to the roughly 30,000 registered legally blind individuals in Massachusetts. The organization assists these individuals in becoming more independent and involved in the community through its rehabilitation and social services. Language Connections frequently helps fulfill Massachusetts Commission for the Blind’s mission by providing Hakka interpreters to facilitate communication between its social workers and counselors and blind individuals who lack proficiency in English.
This past January, Language Connections was tasked with finding a Mandarin Chinese interpreter for an elderly blind individual. Fortunately, Language Connections has its own interpreter training program for multiple languages, including Mandarin Chinese, and one of the best graduates of this program accepted the assignment.
The interpreter contacted the client, but as it turned out, there had been a miscommunication and the blind individual spoke not Mandarin but rather Hakka, another dialect of Chinese. Although called dialects, Hakka and Mandarin are as different from one another as two different languages, and the interpreter was unable to communicate with the client. However, the Mandarin interpreter knew another interpreter who spoke Hakka as well as Cantonese, Toisanese and Mandarin and she graciously accepted the assignment.
*Map shows area in green where the greatest number of Hakka speakers reside in China.
About Language Connections:
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