Non-English nursing/medical terminology resources?

[Merovingianne]

How have y'all that have moved from an English-speaking environment to a non-English one learn all of the medical jargon in a new language? Did you use books, internet tutorials, tapes, etc? Any information on foreign language resources would be helpful, especially for learning medical French, Japanese, or German.

Merci!

[suzanne4, RN]

There are actually books available in those languages, just like we have here.

But you will also need to be able to pass the full nursing exam in that country's language to be able to work there. So not sure how just one book would help you.

[Merovingianne]

There are actually books available in those languages, just like we have here.

But you will also need to be able to pass the full nursing exam in that country's language to be able to work there. So not sure how just one book would help you.

In the US, there are countless langugage resources for health practitioners who want to learn 'medical Spanish'--not textbooks, just language primers that give the vocab in Spanish, and outline how questions should be asked in Spanish. I wanted to know if anyone has seen similar types of language-learning material for other languages besides Spanish.

I don't think a textbook in the target language would be as helpful (initially) just because without first learning the terms in the target language, you'll be faced with vocab you never learned in a general language class and that will most likely not be in any standard dictionary in the target language.

[suzanne4, RN]

Yes, I have seen probably about 25 languages that have books like this.........

I lived and worked in Thailand, and taught nurses there. There were books available even there is many different languages for the medical terms.

Can you be more specific on what you are looking for and I can tell you where to look.

[Merovingianne]

Yes, I have seen probably about 25 languages that have books like this.........

I lived and worked in Thailand, and taught nurses there. There were books available even there is many different languages for the medical terms.

Can you be more specific on what you are looking for and I can tell you where to look.

I'm just looking for books that have vocab and phrases in English and then in another language. Not books teaching a language, or books teaching nursing in a different language, but vocab primers that translate terms from English to another language.