In-Person Interpretation
Departments are required to report the number of times their employees provided in-person interpretation or language assistance services in each language .
Departments ’ compliance reporting shows that in-person interpretations increased compared to the previous fiscal year in all languages .
Of 43,990 total in-person interpretations , 23,986 ( 55 %) were in Spanish , 10,009 ( 23 %) were in Cantonese , 3,540 ( 8 %) were in Mandarin , 1,967 ( 4 %) were in Filipino , 1,080 ( 2 %) were in Vietnamese , 719 ( 2 %) were in Russian , and 2,689 ( 6 %) were in other languages .
In-person interpretations increased by 153 % since the previous fiscal year , from 17,420 to 44,000 .
In-person interpretations increased for Russian ( by 480 %, from 124 to 719 ), Mandarin ( by 316 %, from 850 to 3,540 ), Vietnamese ( by 301 %, from about 270 to 1,080 ), Filipino ( by 248 %, from about 570 to nearly 2,000 ), Cantonese ( by 140 %, from fewer than 4,200 to about 10,000 ) and Spanish ( by 112 %, from about 11,300 to nearly 24,000 ). Interpretation in other languages saw the largest increase , from 141 interactions to nearly 2,700 interactions during the fiscal year .
Total In-Person Interpretations by Language , FY 2021-2022
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