Interpreting Services

Waitematā Auckland Translation and Interpreting Service (WATIS) is a division of our Asian Health Support Service.

WATIS provides interpreting and translation services 24 hours a day, seven days a week for many languages, including sign language.

It may take longer to arrange an interpreter if there is a gender preference or it is for an uncommon language for the geographical area.

The languages available for translation/interpretation are:

Algerian, Arabic, Armenian, Bangla (Bengali), Belorussian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian (Khmer), Chinese (including Cantonese, Chiu Chow, Foochow, Hakka, Hokkien, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Teochew), Cook Island Māori (Rarotongan), Croatian, Czech, Dari (Afghani), Dutch , Ethiopian (Amharic), Farsi (Iranian, Persian), Fijian Hini, Filipino, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irapine, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Kuwaiti, Lao, Lebanese, Macedonian, Malay, Māori, Niuean, Pampango, Polish, Portugese, Punjabi, Pushtu, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Sign Language, Sinhalese, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tokelau, Tongan, Turkish, Tuvaluan, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yugoslavian.