Professional interpreters are extremely important in order to avoid misunderstandings on the job. Amateurs and machines often cannot get the job done correctly. People in the translation and interpretation business stress the importance of having a professional on site, no matter what the job is. In an everyday conversation using a bilingual friend or relative […]

Interpreters provide the bridge for language barriers to be crossed. Fact: In order to interact with any person, one must have proper common ground. Fact: People need social interaction to fully be a part of society. Fiction: It is difficult to connect with someone of a different language origin. Even if you don’t believe these […]

American Sign Language has its own set of cultural norms and its own community. The people that bridge the gap between the deaf community and hearing people are ASL interpreters. These people are highly skilled and trained specifically for this purpose. One of the most beautiful, smooth, and expressionistic languages in the world completely disregards […]

A frequently asked question in the translation and interpretation field: What would you have to do to become an interpreter?  What it takes? Here is a sample path in becoming an interpreter: 1. Tap into any bilingual background you may have. Most interpreters come from families where more than one language is spoken. 2. Perform […]

Siri, Apple’s new iPhone 4S app, is still struggling with picking up dialects and its ability to recognize language, so this application is long in the works.  New technologies come up almost every day with ways to make life easier and more efficient, but may not cover the entire subject. For example, in the case […]

All the colleagues working at Monterey Language Services are linguistically gifted with world travel experience. Our intern Matthew Stone went to Germany and finished his high school degree and is now a business major at CSUMB. He was interned in Austria and volunteered to help build amphitheaters in Mexico. He has unique experiences in a […]

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Monterey Language Services is a translation and interpretation company headquartered in Monterey County, California.  What do we know about Monterey County? Monterey County is probably best known as the setting of John Steinbeck’s novels, and for the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, at which Jimi Hendrix got famous.  But the county has even more to […]

The name John Steinbeck is probably more associated with Monterey County than is any other name.  In light of Steinbeck’s unrivaled influence in Monterey County, several of us decided to check out the house in which he grew up in Salinas.  Here we were at 132 Central Avenue, Salinas.  Visiting Steinbeck’s house was beyond edifying.  […]

Marina, Calif. – October 17, 2011 – Monterey Language Services (http://www.montereylanguages.com) today announced that it has served 50 new clients in the last 15 months, as the interpretation and translation company continues rapid growth in a sluggish economy. Through its contracts, Monterey Language Services, located in the Marina Technology Cluster, Marina’s business incubator, has provided […]