Introduction When it comes to professional copyediting, the conventional wisdom is that professional translators and editors generally perform better than AI. However, we may find striking similarities between an AI’s output and the professionally edited version. Recently, we experienced an intriguing situation: after copyediting and publishing a text on our website, we later asked an […]

After a summer’s worth of hard work, we are proud to share our latest project: a video series diving into the charming world of Jay Chou’s iconic song, “Blue and White Porcelain.” The series consists of three engaging parts: Educational Video: An introduction to the key terms and concepts in the song, providing valuable insight […]

Joy of Translation Monterey Language Services worked to translate an excerpt of a very famous Mandarin pop song, 青花瓷 (Blue and White Porcelain). We present an English translation that recreates the story of the original song in comfortable, singable English. Even if you don’t speak Chinese, you can truly enjoy and sing the song! That […]

Individualized Education Program Meetings School is a common experience that a lot of us have. For some, though, it’s not that simple of an experience. Imagine you’re having trouble keeping up in school and not learning at the same rate as others. What can you do? Sometimes doing your best can only take you so […]

If you know any T&I schools we can reach out to, please share them by contacting us at info@montereylanguages.com. Monterey Language Services has followed AI development closely and reached out to professional interpreters across the globe to gather their advice for future interpreters. https://www.montereylanguages.com/blog/advice-to-future-interpreters-4894 Now we’re looking to share what we’ve gathered with students around […]

MIIS TILM Career Fair 2024 Check out or career fair journey here! Monterey’s local Middlebury Institute of International Studies had its annual Translation, Interpretation, and Localization Management career fair on February 16th. It was an exciting day for graduates, current students, and all participants alike. It’s one of our favorite times of the year! Many […]

Behind the Scenes Flipbook Link: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/295aedfedf.html How did the idea come up? One of the participating interpreters Sasha commented: The thought of coming up with such a book is already an achievement. That’s right, the idea to give advice to future interpreters didn’t occur to us until after having completed a series we did that […]

Behind the Scenes Part VI We often present clients with guidance on how to work with interpreters, and frequently get asked about AI. This is because many people are waiting for the day that they can simply go online and use AI to seamlessly translate between two different languages, but we would like to say […]

One of our clients, a public relations team personally handwrote their greeting messages in a Christmas card to us. Thanks to the inspiration we received from the team’s warmth and sincerity, and also because 2023 has been a year full of music and human voice auras at Monterey Language Services, we decided to use the […]

Interpreters and Voices: On Human Aura Behind the Scenes Part V Please see samples here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO-QGEbwcTr2MdhbLPPGszMw8Rdc5J9aI Behind these formal presentations of audio video recordings, there’s something very intriguing and interesting happening behind the scenes. In a very liberal sense, we are not too different from journalists or reporters who report on stories due to inspiration […]