I have heard a lot about Cultural Interpreter Language and Interpreting Skills Assessment Tool (CILISAT) and Interpreter Language and Skills Assessment Tool (ILSAT). Can you please provide basic details about this two test and also tell list of subjects available in this test?

The Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration developed two tests in order to evaluate the language and interpretation proficiencies of people applying for certification as community interpreters, which are CILISAT and ILSAT.

CILISAT stands for Cultural Interpreter Language and Interpreting Skills Assessment Tool, while ILSAT stands for Interpreter Language and Skills Assessment Tool.

ILSAT was developed more recently to test other languages and excluded from its proper name the word “Cultural”.

ILSAT is managed and administered by multiple NFOs, mainly by Across Languages, TCET, MCIS, etc.

Certification

The CILISAT will assess your language and interpretation skills through the following tests:

Interpretation from English into selected CILISAT language
Interpretation from selected CILISAT language into English
Sight translation from English into selected CILISAT language
Sight translation from selected CILISAT language into English

ILSAT offers in 63 languages.

CILISAT Languages

CISOC oversees interpreter testing and certification in the following languages:

Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Bengali
Bosnian
Burmese
Cambodian/Khmer
Cantonese
Chin
Croatian
Central Africa Swahili
Dari
East Africa Swahili
French
German
Greek
Haitian Creole
Hindi
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Karen
Kinyarwanda
Korean
Kurdish Sorani
Kurdish Kurmanji
Lingala
Mandarin
Nepali
Oromo
Pashto
Persian / Farsi
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi Gurmukhi
Punjabi Perso-Arabic
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Sinhalese
Somali
Spanish
Tagalog
Tamil
Tigrigna
Turkish
Twi
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese