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Immigrants speaking English: Why do you care, anyway?

americanwoman said:
As someone who translates a lot, I find it most frustrating when I have to do it when we have to go to a doctor or call for help, like the police. It's just frustrating because someone has to be there to translate, if they don't have a translator there how are they going to report what exactly the pain is or how someone just hit their car and left. Don't get me wrong, I really don't mind it at all and I do it to help but I feel helpless for them that if it's an emergency and there is no translator they are not getting anywhere and something bad could happen.
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This kind of goes back to the fact that having a poor grasp of English harms those who don't know English very well more than it harms anyone else. Fortunately, more hospitals and other institutions are making a point to employ translators to avoid the sort of problems that you fear. Hopefully, the people that you translate for will encounter these organizations should they ever find themselves in a dangerous situation.
 
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