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Bindiya Jha

Nepali healthcare interpreter, interpreter educator, and language access advocate; Program Director of Interpreter Education at Found in Translation and member of NCIHC's Languages of Lesser Diffusion Work Group.

Sep 30, 2026

1:08
Why is it that that interpreters that interpret for languages of limited diffusion, or LLD is the acronym that we use, why is it that they might encounter some unique challenges that interpreters of more common languages may not face as much?
1:26
So when we talk about interpreters for common languages, the words that they use, the medical terminology may be very commonly available in their language.
1:36
One of the major challenges, like you mentioned earlier, for LLD speakers or LLD interpreters are There's a medical word where there's not like word to word equivalence.
1:48
Yes, you can understand the concept of that and you can use few words to explain that.
1:55
But word to word is very hard to come by for a lot of words.
2:00
And I just like to take a step back and explain why, especially in Nepal.
2:05
When people started learning about medicine, it was an important discipline.

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