In 2016, the California Legislature approved a bill that would help improve the amount and quality of medical interpretation services in the state. In accordance with Assembly Bill (AB) 635 (Atkins, Chapter 600, Statutes of 2016) which was passed with little objection, and Senate Bill (SB) 165 (Atkins, Chapter 365, Statutes of 2019) which passed […]

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 […]

In the last post, we spoke a bit about the different types of machine translation as well as their advantages and disadvantages. For this post, we delve a little deeper into one of the more exciting machine translation methods, Neural Machine Translation. As a quick recap, Neural Machine Translation is where deep neural networks are […]

Localization is a relatively new field that people might have never heard of it or only had a vague and superficial understanding of what it means. But the truth is that the field of localization is continuously developing, and with it, there are new terms and ideas that are developing with it. One such term […]

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 […]

Between language buyers and language service providers (LSPs), there is always a need to manage the relationship between one another. Simply put, without the buyer, there is no work for the LSP and without the LSP, the buyer will be at a loss too. It is therefore important to create and maintain a good relationship […]

We often ask ourselves, “What does the translation and interpretation company of the future look like?” When we think intentionally about the future, we are better able to predict trends and plan for them, or at least identify them early on. We are also able to foresee potential problems and develop plans for addressing these […]

As a translation and interpretation provider, Monterey Language Services prides itself on being able to provide expert translation to our clients. We often work with expert translators and interpreters who have just the right background and specialization to complete our clients’ projects, no matter how technical or specialized. What makes an expert translator? Generally, it’s […]

Take a look at this amazing video with Disney’s impressive cast singing the localized versions of “Let it Go” from Frozen in English, French, German, Dutch, Mandarin, Swedish, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Korean, Serbian, Cantonese, Portuguese, Bahasa Malaysian, Russian, Danish, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Thai, Canadian French, and Flemish.   Watching […]

Monterey Language Services has decided to look at interpreting as a profession as seen in movies. In doing so, we have found perfect examples of two opposite sides of the interpreter spectrum:  a professional interpreter in The Interpreter, and the opposite in Lost in Translation. Although the latter was played off for laughs, by comparing […]