Our mission is to serve as an Interpreters Resource in North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota.

 

What we do & the many ways MIRC can help you:

 

Organize and coordinate annual interpreters training workshops to certify bilingual individuals as professional community interpreters to serve residents and community agencies in ND and Northwestern MN.

 

Create, maintain and update a list of certified professional interpreters for MIRC members.

 

Organize and conduct basic interpreters training (e.g. Code of Ethics ) for new beginners and refresher classes for professional Interpreters for MIRC members.

 

Supply area schools, businesses, clinics & courts with high quality interpreters to assist in areas where communication must be had.

The most common languages are:  

                                              

• Bosnian             Amharic                                  

• Spanish              Farsi 

• Kurdish              French 

• Arabic                Kinyarwanda

• Kirundi              Liberian English

• Somali               Mandarin

• Vietnamese     Portuguese 

• Dinka                 Russian 

• Khran                Swahili

• Nepali               German

                          West African

 

The dialects are:

• Ewe and Min

• Darsi

• Czech

• Surani/Badini

• Krohn and Grebo

• Creole

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