About
Bromberg & Associates, LLC is a full range language service provider, DBE and WBE certified business and GSA Federal Supply Schedule Award holder providing quality interpretation and translation services since 1999.
Since 2003, Bromberg & Associates has been providing on-site training options to legal interpreters, helping to improve their skills and prepare them for state certification.
Our milestones include the following:
- In 2006, we published the first edition of our Legal Interpreter Training Guide. This Guide addresses many aspects of legal interpreting and provides extensive language-specific resources for interpreters of Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish languages.
- In 2008, we came out with a 2nd edition of the Guide including an expanded language-specific portion. Portuguese, Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian versions were also added to the list of languages.
- Starting in 2008 we have moved our training programs to a new medium and developed this innovative legal interpreter training program. We are excited to offer the same opportunity, quality and commitment to excellence in interpreter training to a much broader demographic by launching this program online in a multitude of languages. At this time we offered our training in Albanian, Arabic, French, Hmong, German, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. More languages will become available very soon, so please check with us if you don’t see your language listed!
How can I get a copy of your first and second edition
training guides?
Pleasae let me know. Thank you.
Silvina Kramer
Please contact us via email or by phone to determine the languages you are looking for. Currently the guides are available in 5 languages (listed above) and Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian versions will be offered beginning September, 2009.
Thank you!
Jinny
Hi Jinny,
Sharon Fox sent the information about your website today 9/9/09. I registered and logged in, all without any problems.
Looks very good and I’ll keep on testing it.
Franco.
It would be interesting to see training and materials in Ukrainian. Or maybe you are already offering this language?
Aleks,
Thank you for your inquiry. Currently, the training is offered in a number of languages, including Russian. We are expecting to have the training provided in Ukrainian in 2010. In a meantime, please let me know if you have any other questions regarding our programs.
Best regards,
Jinny
When you are done taking the course, where do you go to take the exam for certification? Is that offered through the school?
Thanks so much, Lena
Dear Lena,
Thank you for your interest in Interpreter Education Online.
There are two types of certification exams for court interpreters in the U.S.: federal and state. Federal Court Interpreter Examination is offered only in Spanish, Navaho, and Haitian-Creole languages. See http://www.ncsconline.org/d_research/fcice_exam/index.htm for more information.
You should check with your State Court Administrative Office whether or not Court Interpreter Exam is offered in your state and in you language combination. Some states, such as California, developed their own examination system. Forty states are members of the Consortium for Language Access in the Courts. For more information, see
http://www.ncsconline.org/D_RESEARCH/CourtInterp.html
and
http://www.ncsconline.org/D_Research/CourtInterp/Res_CtInte_ConsortMemberStatesPubNove07.pdf
As you see, the exams are administered by independent bodies. The exam passing rate is from 3% to 13% of the candidates depending on the language. While taking the course will not give you the certification status automatically, it will help you to get ready for the exam, and, hopefully, be among 3-13% of the examinees who pass the exam successfully.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any further questions.
Good luck
Who constructed these courses? What academic experience do these people have? Who imparts these courses, and what is their academic preparation? What academic background do the mentors have, and who are they?
Thank you for your interest in Interpreter Education Online.
Our educational programs had been developed by a multidisciplinary team of language, legal and medical professionals. Experienced practicing interpreters with federal and state credentials and with extensive pedagogical and academic background created the course concept and curriculum as well as the Interpreter Ethics, Interpretation Theory and Interpretation Practice sections. The Legal Concepts and Criminal Procedure sections were written by legal professionals and the Special Topic section – by subject-matter specialists, for example by a firearm expert.
The courses are being taught by two instructors – language-neutral and language-specific. All our instructors are accomplished federally and state certified interpreters with proven interpreter training skills.
If you let us know which specific course you are interested in and what is your language combination, we’d be happy to provide more information about the instructors.
Please contact us at services@InterpreterEducationOnline.com