Finland – Interpreters Need Fluency in Red Tape
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17 July, 2009
Interpreters are in high demand, as more immigrants need help to navigate their way through Finnish red tape. Now there's a push to try and create a new vocational certificate for interpreters who specialize in Finnish bureaucracy.
The new vocational...
At hospitals and clinics, communicating the names of illnesses, explaining the consent form for an operation, and other medical minutia can be a challenge for staff, even when talking to a Japanese patient. When the patient is a foreigner, the language barrier...