Languages

Patients may request an interpreter by asking the secretary on the unit to call 617-636-5547. At night and on weekends, interpreters are available for emergencies only.

 

Languages available in-house:

 

• American Sign Language (ASL)
• Cambodian
• Cantonese
• French
• Haitian Creole
• Mandarin
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Toisanese
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese

 

On call:

 

• Albanian
• Amharic
• Arabic
• Armenian
• Bengali
• Bosnian
• Bulgarian
• Burmese
• Cape Verdean
• Czech
• Dutch
• Estonian
• Farsi
• German
• Greek
• Gujarati
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Ibo
• Italian
• Japanese
• Khmer
• Korean
• Laotian
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Malay
• Maraci
• Marathi
• Polish
• Rumanian
• Serbo-Croat
• Slovak
• Somali
• Tagalog
• Tigrinian
• Turkish