When you’re working as an interpreter or a translator, it is inevitable that you have to work with other people especially clients. Regardless of whether you are a freelancer or working in-house, you will have to interact with your clients to find out the scope of work, their expectations, and to negotiate with them to […]

If you are a freelance translator or interpreter, you have received your fair share of emails requesting your services. While the scope and details of the project can vary, the objective for you as a translator or interpreter always remains the same—to provide your expert services and get paid for them. In an ideal world, […]

Working in the language industry as either an interpreter or translator means that you have to make yourself stand out one way or the other in the field. Just by promoting yourself as someone who can deliver high quality work in a timely fashion is not enough. Everyone can say that, so there is no […]

The pandemic has posed a number of challenges for everyone, especially for people that have jobs require them to be on-site. Of course, in order to stay safe and healthy during the pandemic, it has been recommended that everyone stay inside as much as possible. However, there is still a need and demand for interpreters […]

Whether you’re a translator, a translation reviewer, or any other part of the translation team, odds are you have interacted with a translation project manager. Project managers are the glue that help to keep all the moving parts in localization and translation cohesive and together. But how does one become a project manager? Whereas a […]

During this pandemic, it has become increasingly common, even necessary for jobs to be shifted from on-site to remote. Chances are, if you are a translator, you are spending most of your work time at home rather than in an office. Though working from home might not feel like too much of a change, besides […]

As a modern translator, there are many tools that are available now that translators in the past could only dream of having. Tools such as machine translation, spell check, macros, and online dictionaries are regularly used, leading to faster and even more accurate translations than translations of the past. However, one tool that translators might […]

With the turn of the year, we at Monterey Language Services look forward to greeting the new year with our friends and colleagues! We can now look towards the future and remember that 2021 is a fresh start and will hold great things for all of us! Happy New Year from everyone here at Monterey […]

The main point of this post is to make sure that you are not trying to always do a one to one translation of the source text. Unless the specific field you are translating calls for a one to one translation, it will be much more difficult to read in the target language, and it […]

In the last post, we talked about the value of making relationships between Language Service Providers (LSPs) and language buyers. For the next part of this two part blog post, we will talk about recommendations on how to make these relationships. As mentioned in the previous post, creating and maintaining a strong relationship is very […]