Interpreting

Interpreters play an essential role in day-to-day communication with people from our multi-ethnic communities.  With their combined linguistic, intercultural and interpersonal skills, as well as their professional training and experience, interpreters provide an effective, impartial and confidential communication channel between speakers of different languages.  A professional interpreter will be neutral, able to translate technical terms and retain strict confidence, which a family member or friend may find difficult.

For more on why it's important to use an interpreter, follow this link to hear real stories of interpreters' experiences: http://www.patientvoices.org.uk/interps.htm

Professional specialisms

Cintra has the experience and expertise to source interpreters for you in over 100 languages, with the right qualifications and training, whenever and wherever they are needed.  All our interpreters specialise in at least one discipline - legal, health or local government.

Every day, Cintra's interpreters successfully assist police forces, courts, GPs, hospitals, social services and businesses in the UK in their communications with non-English speakers.

Interpreting services

We provide three high-quality, competitively priced interpreting services to accommodate any situation.

For more information, or to book any of our services, call our friendly team on 01223 346870 or email booking@cintra.org.uk.

Face-to-face interpreting For appointments which are diagnostic, sensitive, complex or of a longer duration, such as police interviews, court hearings, medical consultations or client meetings. The interpreter typically interprets consecutively, by first listening to a section of speech and then saying it in the other language.

Telephone interpreting A cost-effective solution for emergency situations or short appointments, such as enquiries and referrals, situations where you need to contact people in remote locations, or for rare language requests where face-to-face interpreters are less readily available.

BSL interpreting British Sign Language (BSL) is the sign language used in the UK to communicate with deaf or hard-of-hearing people.  It is a language of space and movement using the hands, body, face and head.  For people with a loss of vision as well as hearing we can provide qualified interpreters specialising in Hands on signing, Visual frame signing and Deaf blind manual.