The phrase "able to interpret a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capability to understand or explain something, often in contexts related to language, data, or art.
Example: "She is able to interpret a variety of texts, making her an invaluable asset to the team."
Alternatives: "capable of interpreting a" or "skilled in interpreting a".
She said that the length of the tests, however onerous, gave students ample time to show their abilities and that it was not too much to ask every 10th grader to be able to interpret a passage written on the level of Dickens or to explain how to solve a geometric problem.
In the same way that a manager is able to interpret a balance sheet, he should be able to know how technology is going to impact the business strategy of the company".
The learning goals of the activity are for students to be able to "interpret a multidisciplinary dataset for monitoring volcanic activity and to use that data to make a forecast for a potential eruption" (Poland et al. 2010a).
"A geologist with a background in igneous petrology," the study of rocks formed from solidified magma, "will be able to interpret a lot more from a rock than a physicist.
Still, Martin's MIDAS program was able to interpret a variety of metaphors in the context of a language-based Unix adviser, relying on knowledge about the domain and about metaphorical mapping, hand-coded in the KODIAK knowledge representation language.
Yet, a key component of students' long-term development of statistical literacy is being able to interpret a message from a context with a distribution that displays variation, clustering, middles and unexpected values; this might not involve conventional text-book types of graphs (Lehrer, 2007; Wall and Benson, 2009; Watson et al., 2008).
Eighty-seven per cent of referrers considered the radiology report an indispensable tool; 63% did not think they were better able to interpret an imaging study in their own specialty than a radiologist.
Interpreters encounter a variety of different situations and must be able to interpret all types of discussion.
She quickly realized that she had a knack for catching troublesome cats, and credited her intuition: being able to interpret what a cat may or may not do in a tense situation.
For a practitioner to be able to interpret research evidence, a very specific body of knowledge and skills is needed.
Detailed and verified protocols are essential to be able to interpret results of BTX-A treatment studies.
