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NHS orientation videos - Kurdish & Tigrinya

Voices in Refuge Interpreters recently collaborated with the Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum's ITM project and some local NHS...

Online Interpreting Training - Video

In the video below, our training facilitator introduces our online interpreting training course. If you are interested, please fill in...

What to expect during an interpreting session- Everything will be interpreted

Our interpreting service is centred on a series of essential principles that focus on the belief that everyone has the right to speak and...

Do's & don'ts of working with an interpreter

Clear communication between parties is essential during an interpreting session. We’ve complied a video in English and in Slovene about a...

The right way to introduce yourself as an interpreter - an opening statement

An opening statement enables to establish the interpreter’s professional authority and sets the expectations or rules for the...

Online Interpreting Training - Introduction

Throughout the year, we run Introduction to Community Interpreting in Refugee and Asylum Seeker settings training courses. These courses...

A Slovene speaking Mandarin? Meet our trainer!

I have always felt intrigued by the sounds and rhythms of foreign languages. As a child growing up in Yugoslavia, later Slovenia, I...

Remembering Leo Keely

We were so sad to hear about the death of Leo Keely. Leo was fundamental in our change from a small volunteer project into a Community...

ViR- from the intern's perspective

Internship at Voices in Refuge, summer/autumn 2019 As a student of Intercultural Linguistic Mediation, I was deeply surprised by the idea...

Welcome to Voices in Refuge's blog!

One of Voices in Refuge's most important and challenging goals is to encourage clients and organisations to treat interpreters as trained...