Interpreting Services

Waitematā Auckland Translation and Interpreting Service (WATIS) is a division of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Waitematā 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 interpreting/translation 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 Hindi, Filipino, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Iraqine, 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.