Mario Medal
Do you need a Certified Spanish Court Interpreter? Julio Mario Medal is a Certified Spanish Court Interpreter serving the following counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura. He is also available for out of state and out of country interpretation services. Mario Medal Interpreter performs interpreting services for depositions, hearings, mediations, meetings, conferences, and document translations.
Court interpreters play a key role in courts by interpreting for defendants, litigants, and witnesses, thus helping to insure access to justice for thousands of people with limited English proficiency. They must accurately interpret for individuals with very limited education and/or language skills, without changing the level of the language spoken by the speaker. Interpreters can also be responsible for orally translating written documents from English into the foreign language and from the foreign language into English.
A certified court interpreter must posses several qualifications, all of which Mario Medal has achieved. The first qualification is a high proficiency in both English and the certified non-English language, such as Arabic, Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian, Cantonese, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Secondly, the person must have a wide general knowledge characteristic of what a minimum of two years of general education at a college or university would provide. And lastly, the person must perform the three major types of court interpreting: consecutive interpreting, simultaneous interpreting, and sight translation.
Mario Medal Interpreter has extraordinary memory skills and a broad legal vocabulary in both English and Spanish. He has the linguistic, speaking, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, interpreting, and behavioral skills necessary to be a successful interpreter. As an interpreter, he is able to handle the widest range of language terms that may be presented in the courts, ranging from specialized legal and technical terminology to street slang and idioms.
To become a court interpreter, you must first take and pass several exams including: the Written Exam, English Oral Proficiency Exam, and Oral Proficiency Exam in the non-English language. After taking and passing these exams, you must take online orientation courses pertaining to being an interpreter. Once this is done, you submit an application to the Judicial Council. Within the first two-year compliance period, you must attend a Judicial Council Code of Ethics Workshop. Lastly, you must meet ongoing court interpreter professional development requirements.
Some of the suggested skills-enhancing exercises for interpreters are effective listening and memorization techniques for consecutive interpreting. It’s important for interpreters to analyze words and their meanings by asking others what they mean when they use a particular word or phrase. One person’s word usage may differ from your usage. Try to determine the speaker’s point early in the presentation rather than later.
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Julio Mario Medal has gone through all the vigorous processes of becoming a certified court interpreter and has been interpreting for many years. When Mario Medal is not performing interpreting services, he enjoys teaching salsa dancing and yoga.
