The skills you need to interpret with confidence.

 

Our line of training tools for professional interpreters will prepare you for interpretation in a myriad of environments like courtrooms, news broadcasts, conferences, and more.
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Are you ready for HOURS of exercises to sharpen your skills? Here’s what you get!

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  • Recordings — Simultaneous exercises, consecutives, and the Verbal Volley 1 (101 courtroom phrases)

  • Scripts — Simultaneous exercises, consecutive exercises, and sight translations

  • Glossaries — one glossary for each script plus the Verbal Volley 1’s glossary of 101 courtroom phrases

All of our materials are based on the challenging and crazy variety of cases and situations that interpreters encounter in court — and in exams! From drug deals, robbery, dog fights, and domestic violence to homicides. The linguistic challenges will include:

  • street drugs

  • murder

  • domestic violence

  • firearms

  • slang

  • insults

  • crime scene

  • pathology report

 

  • medical forensic testimony

  • legalese

  • persuasive speech

  • insults

  • robbery

  • bodily injury

  • advisement of rights

  • assault

  • slang

  • car parts

  • immigration

  • DUIs

  • jury instructions

  • money laundering

  • persuasive speech

The Confident Interpreter was founded in 2016 by Yvette Citizen and Irene Radillo.

Together they have over 20 years working as professional interpreters for multiple private and government organizations in judicial, medical, conference and educational settings, including the US State Department, California Superior Court, US District Courts and the University of Arizona.

Irene Radillo-Diaz

Irene Radillo-Diaz

Yvette Citizen

Yvette Citizen

I absolutely recommend all prospective interpreters who are trying to enter the profession, and current interpreters who want to perfect their skills to reach out to them. You couldn’t be in better hands.
— Monica Licea-Castro, FCCI

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