Languages
At BIDMC, interpreters in more than 30 languages are available to assist patients.
Staff interpreters are available for:
- Russian
- Spanish
- Cape Verdean Creole
- Portuguese
- American Sign Language
- Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)
- Haitian Creole
- Vietnamese
- Thai
Staff interpreters also speak:
- Fulani
- Estonian
- Finnish
- German
- Ukrainian
- French
Contracted interpreters provide service in many languages including:
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Croatian
- Farsi
- German
- Greek
- Guajarati
- Italian
- Japanese
- Khmer
- Korean
- Polish
- Punjabi
- Somali
- Tagalog
- Thai
- Tigrinya
- Toisanese dialect
- Urdu
- Others
