At Monterey Language Services, we are always searching for interesting tidbits to lift our spirits. Here is one good example.  Deborah Fallows has a Ph.D. in linguistics.  She decided to immerse herself into Chinese culture by learning Chinese.  In her new book, Dreaming in Chinese:  Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love and Language, Fallows provides intriguing […]

The following insights shared by our team members look at the two types of hermeneutics, or art of interpretation, and their role in translation and interpretation market place. Exegesis is a straightforward, factual explanation.  It assumes that a text contains fixed and invariant meaning. The exegete is a neutral or objective expositor, a transmitter of […]

Why do we translate Deutschland into Germany in English? By Emily Frye While studying abroad in France my sister and I decided to take a trip to Munich, Germany. While crossing the border by train a policewoman asked what we were doing in Europe.  I said that we were students in France and were visiting […]

Monterey Language Services got huge attention from the most prestigious newspaper in Monterey County, and the most famous translation and interpretation school in the world.  Check us out.   The Monterey County Herald In the News [click on the image]      Monterey Institute of International Studies http://www.miis.edu/about/newsroom/stories/node/21128 [to view it in PDF, click here] […]

Monterey Language Services (MLS), situated in the rolling hills a few miles from the Pacific Ocean in Monterey County, California, is a jewel of Monterey County — artistic, creative, multicultural, and language-oriented in an inspiring environment. MLS team members are professional, dedicated and passionate about languages and foreign cultures. We are oriented towards finding the […]

By Lee Eisenberg Going to work in Monterey Language Services (MLS) is not like going to work at most other places.  This company, located in Marina, California, is like a summer retreat.  Each workday, you drive along Imjin Parkway, which then turns into Imjin Road.  The barren but impressive setting is bound to astonish anyone.  […]

Lee Eisenberg, one of our team members and Russian-to-English translators, shares a wonderful story about how he handles translation between two different cultures using the definition of “real estate” as an example, and how subject knowledge is important for a translator. The picture of him was taken in St. Petersburg, Russia, standing on the frozen […]

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations is officially translated by the French as the Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme.  If we translate this word for word back into English it is The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man.  Just men?  Are our French friends stuck in some male-chauvinist […]