Screenshot taken from the Californian’s website.

Our upcoming training seminar, Medical Interpreting as a Profession, was broadcast by the Californian, a newspaper based in Salinas, California, where the county government is located and the majority of residents are Spanish-speakers from Mexico.

This area has a strong need for medical interpretation services, so this workshop allows us to provide a much needed and valuable program for the community. Our goal is to help bilingual speakers and interpreters enter the medical interpretation field. Download the workshop info and registration form here.

Registration form: http://www.montereylanguages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Medical-Workshop-Info-and-Registration_Monterey-Language-Services_updated.pdf

Here is the news:
Translation service launches training seminars

Monterey Language Services has launched an interpreter training seminar to move area bilingual speakers into jobs in healthcare.

The seminars will begin in November and are open to all area bilingual residents interested in pursuing jobs as medical interpreters.

Since 2010, Monterey Language Services has seen a steady increase in the need for professional medical interpreters.

MLS will offer its first “Medical Interpreting as a Profession” seminar from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 15 at 2600 Garden Road, Suite 130, Monterey. The seminar is $60 attending in person, $45 online.

Information: 831-655-3460.

Other than translation, Monterey Language Services provides interpreters to hospitals in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties and is the official bilingual evaluator for the County of Monterey. Our main services include interpreter training and certification as well.

MONTEREY, Calif. (Oct. 27, 2014) – Monterey Language Services (MLS) today announced its first “Medical Interpreting as a Profession” seminar, to be held on November 15, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at MLS’s offices at 2600 Garden Road, Suite 130.

The seminar, which is open to all local bilingual residents interested in pursuing jobs as medical interpreters, is intended to usher local bilingual speakers into jobs in healthcare.  If participants pass MLS’s exit exam, they will be issued a certificate that is accepted by regional hospitals.

According to the United States Department of Labor Statistics, employment of interpreters and translators is projected to grow 46 percent from 2012 to 2022.

“This means Spanish-speakers, and speakers of other languages such as Chinese and Arabic, can use their language skills to find full-time work,” said Mei-Ling Chen, owner of MLS and a graduate of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. “Certified training is an important step to starting a career in this growing field.”

Since 2010, Monterey Language Services has seen a steady increase in the need for professional medical interpreters, as healthcare organizations have come to prefer interpreters with certification credentials over non-certified candidates. As a leader in the field of medical interpreting locally, this training allows MLS to share its experience and in-depth knowledge with potential service providers.

The cost for the November 15^th event is $60 if attending in person and $45 if attending on-line. This is the premiere of the seminar series. Please call 831-655-3460 for more information.

Download the workshop info and registration form here.

Monterey Language Services will be hosting the workshop Medical Interpreting as a Profession.

Date:   Saturday, November 15, 2014, 10 am – 1 pm

Location:
Monterey Language Services
2600 Garden Road, Suite 130
Monterey, CA 93940

Medical Interpreting as a Profession will focus on interactive discussions about the requirements for being a medical interpreter, getting certification, and the overall steps to success in medical interpretation.

The workshop is designed to give you the information and direction to take action, so you can improve your skills or advance in your profession as a medical interpreter.    

Who will be presenting: Our certified medical interpreters with experience in the field, and clients who have worked closely with medical interpreters.

Who should attend:

• those who are thinking of becoming interpreters in the medical field
• interpreters who wish to gain more insight into the field
• those who are bilingual or proficient in a second language, but have not interpreted professionally before
• those who already have medical training or experience, but have not interpreted professionally before

Cost:   $60 if attending in person, $45 if online.
Pay by October 27 to receive a $10 early bird discount:  $50 in person, $35 online  

How to register: Download the workshop info and registration form here.

We look forward to seeing you! (And let your colleagues know!)

If you have ideas about what marketing is and you know how to draw attention, then you are the person we’re looking for.

Monterey Language Services is seeking a marketing person to join the team on a full-time, part-time or internship basis, and assist with our internet and direct marketing efforts.

If you are interested, please contact our Project Coordinator, Ana Zaytseva, at ana@montereylanguages.com or by phone at (831) 655 3460.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement activities or events online and in the real world
• Participate in discussions and postings on third party websites to increase Monterey Language Services web presence and visibility
• Assist in the development of marketing messages consistent with Monterey Language Services image and appropriate with different market segments
• Generate concepts for and produce videos to be posted through Monterey Language Services social media

Desired qualities:

• Experience and knowledge in marketing, public relations, journalism or communication
• Creative, unconventional, social, able to draw attention to an idea or service

You can learn more about Monterey Language Services through:
Website: www.montereylanguages.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/montereylanguages
Blog: www.montereylanguages.com/blog

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Monterey Language Services strives to provide the highest quality of translation and interpretation services. Please feel free to contact us for a quote.

In one hour, this real-time discussion attracted more than 30 comments. The discussion is insightful, with a wide scope of subjects, and the outcome is exciting and remarkable. Enjoy it here: https://www.facebook.com/events/756246771075085/

“Machine-assisted human translation vs. human-assisted machine translation” was the topic that won the Monterey Language Services Tech Contest, which took place on Monterey Language Services’ Facebook page and ended today at noon.

Participants were mainly from the Chinese program of the Translation and Interpretation School of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, which is the largest program in the school. Congratulations to Qianxi, the winner, and all who participated! (See his victory speech here.) We felt your energy and it was breathtaking. We hope to see you next time.

The 36 comments touch upon the future for translators, development of language technology and machine translation, CAT tools such as Trados, MemoQ, Wordfast, power of machine translation, human translators versus machine translators, translation software, how machines can improve efficiency and productivity for translators, a real life story with Google Translate, training machines to translate, coding and decoding, translation segmentation, machine language, repetitions in text, subject knowledge and specialization, theory versus reality, and more.

Monterey Language Services strives to provide the highest quality of translation and interpretation services. Please feel free to contact us for a quote.

Let’s face it. We all have opinions, about everything from the newest cell phone model and Sony’s next 3D experiment, to how to chop onions with light-sabers. That’s part of being a social tech geek. Well, here’s your opportunity to put those opinions to use and to win a prize!

If you consider yourself to be the most social and opinionated person, check this out. Here are easy steps to win:

• Click on the link below:
Monterey Language Services Tech Marathon
• Start a question about Technology
• Invite as many friends as possible
• Keep your thread alive
(i.e. have your friends join, give feedback, and have fun!)
• The longest thread will win
• Price is $100 in cash

The marathon starts immediately. The deadline is April 18th, Friday, 12 pm PDT. The winner will be announced at 5 pm on Monterey Language Services Facebook.

Everyone can chat about future technology. Are you ready for this challenge?

Monterey Language Services strives to provide the highest quality of translation and interpretation services. Please feel free to contact us for a quote.

Goal: Propel you into international markets and draw in new customers

WordPress is one of the most popular CMS (Content Management Systems) available today, and with good reason. It’s versatile, well-indexed on the internet and SEO-friendly, so it is widely used by everyone from startups to tech companies to multinational corporations like Best Buy and Coca Cola to create their sites.

At Monterey Language Services, we offer full service (one-stop solution) to turn a monolingual website into a multilingual one for you.  No longer do you need to worry about technical details, such as extraction of content or implementation of translation, or even concern yourself with choosing a plugin for the creation of multilingual sites.

Instead, we will take care of it all.  The completed translation including Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in the tags will appear on your WordPress website, ready to propel you into international markets and draw in new customers for you.

Our globalization localization platform is integrated with WordPress, which facilitates and simplifies the WordPress website translation and localization process. It also allows us to monitor any new content you add and have our translators update the translation accordingly.

We will take care of translation and localization in all languages for all the WordPress pages, posts, tags, categories, and custom fields. So you, as the client, are free to relax.  Want to convert your WordPress website to a multilingual website? Just simply let us handle the entire process, hassle-free.

Send in your request! We will deliver a fully translated multilingual website, and make you ready to shine in the world!

Monterey Language Services strives to provide the highest quality of translation and interpretation services. Please feel free to contact us for a quote.

Having a bilingual employee can be a great benefit to any business or service, allowing you to reach a wider audience and to better serve any customers that require bilingual assistance. However, testing the language capabilities of an employee can be difficult, especially when you don’t have a background in the language yourself.

Bilingual testing is an important service that allows employers to verify the language capabilities of their workers. Our bilingual testing evaluators are experienced and professionally credentialed. They can fully draw out and judge not only how well your employees speak the foreign language, but also how well they can translate and interpret between the two.

To fully evaluate the bilingual skills of your employees takes more than just a short interview.  We develop a comprehensive testing system using an interactive style tailored to your area of service and your employee’s responsibilities. Our highly skilled team provides testing materials and evaluation. You sit back and after the evaluation is complete, you can see how well your candidates performed. Candidates who pass our test perform their jobs proficiently in bilingual settings.

Monterey Language Services offers bilingual testing for all languages (and Spanish in particular). We develop dynamic test materials, proven to be effective and successful. Our bilingual evaluation is offered in-person, on site, and even remotely through phone or video!

Monterey Language Services strives to provide the highest quality of translation and interpretation services. Please feel free to contact us for a quote.

Mobile apps are the latest trend in hip, modern technologies and a popular direction for large companies and young startups alike. Apps can be easily downloaded and installed by individual users across the world. Portable, widely available, interoperable, and (mostly) free, they are immensely popular across a wide spectrum of customers.

There are many different kinds of apps, apps marketplaces and app stores: mobile games apps, apps that serve as extensions of websites for mobile devices, apps that link to and control devices. Apps can provide an entire service by themselves, present a new, portable form of a business’s existing services, or be part of a physical product.

Mobile messaging apps users now number in the hundreds of millions around the globe due to ease of use and a multitude of free service offerings. Whatsapp (based in Mountain View, CA) has 450 million monthly users, with Line (Japan, 350 million registered users) and WeChat (Shenzhen, China, 272 million monthly users) not far behind. Many mobile messaging apps are also major players in the mobile game apps arena. You can use these mobile messaging apps to send and receive text messages, record and send audio files, video chat, send photos, and even purchase sticker, music, and game add-ons.

Other popular mobile apps include free hotel-booking and last minute hotel-booking apps for making reservations. Hotel booking mobile apps are available on Android and iOS, a few on Windows Phone or Blackberry.

No matter what their purpose, mobile apps are especially convenient in that they can be easily distributed to customers worldwide, as long as their interface is completely and correctly translated.

We at Monterey Language Services have the technical capabilities to do so, using our global localization platform. Unlike other translation companies, we can handle localizing the entire app, its API, system and interface. We ensure that the mobile app and all its functions are recreated in the target language of your choice. All you have to do is sit back and have fun with your mobile app! Monterey Language Services takes care of the rest.

Monterey Language Services strives to provide the highest quality of translation and interpretation services. Please feel free to contact us for a quote.

Creating a website that is both visually appealing and functional has been made easy by CMS platforms – Content Management Systems, such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Articulate, SalesForce, and the list goes on. The Content Management System is a computer program that allows publishing, editing and modifying content as well as maintenance from a central interface. 

But translating a CMS-based site requires a special approach. The content of modern dynamic websites is not stored in a single file, and it cannot be simply downloaded and sent over to a translator. Thus, an entire localization engineering process is required to first extract the source text, then reintegrate it back in after the translation is complete.

Plug-ins do exist within some CMS platforms to assist with this process. They allow pages to be linked together as multilingual equivalents. However, full integration requires extensive engineering work. While most translation companies do not have this capability, Monterey Language Services does. Monterey Language Services’ localization technology and global localization platform streamline the integration process to ensure that our translation is properly applied within your site.

Furthermore, we can translate not only the surface content, but also the meta data of your site. That will ensure your site’s SEO (search engine optimization) functions in all of its intended languages, serving to attract new visitors and help your site succeed in international markets. That’s right – We translate and localize your SEO content so that your website will rank high in other countries and markets!

We can also monitor the updates you make to your site and update our translations to match, so that all of your customers are presented with the most current information.

With our skilled and experienced team, we guarantee the successful translation and implementation of your website, no matter the content or language, with no extra hassle or effort on your end. Just leave everything to us.

Monterey Language Services strives to provide the highest quality of translation and interpretation services. Please feel free to contact us for a quote.