Interpreting Services in Boston: 12 Interpreters, 9 Languages for BCCC

Boston, MA July 2016 –As a translation and interpreting company, Language Connections often works with clients at the state and municipal level to provide professional linguistic services. We are often asked to deliver interpreting services in Boston, and recently we provided simultaneous interpretation for multiple languages at a Boston City Council Committee (BCCC) meeting at Boston City Hall. The BCCC serves as the link between the citizens of Boston and their municipal government, giving the community the opportunity to participate in issues that directly affect them. In a recent event, they met with members of the Boston community to discuss issues regarding the school budget.  For the participants did not have adequate English proficiency, the client requested our professional interpreting services for 9 languages total.

We provided 12 expert simultaneous interpreters to facilitate in the following languages Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese (Brazilian), French, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Arabic. This demanded quite a bit of coordination on our part, to ensure that all participants were able to follow and contribute to the discussion regardless of their native language. Besides interpreting services in Boston, we also provide similar services nationwide, thus enabling us to have a wealth of expertise to handle such a project. Our interpreting project manager successfully selected and organized all 12 interpreters within the two-to three-day requested deadline and stayed within their budget for the project.

Language Connections was happy to work in partnership with Rapport International for this community project.