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.

LANGUAGES:

The most common languages requested 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 most common dialects requested are:

                      Ewe and Min

                      Darsi

                      Czech

                      Surani/Badini

                      Krohn and Grebo

                      Creole