Monterey Language Services specializes in medical interpretation for hospitals and clinics. Therefore, we are conscious about health and energy related information and would like to share some of our ideas on how to manage your energy levels, so you can increase not only the quality of your work, but your day-to-day life as well. Get […]

So far, 2022 has been a roller coaster — and not a particularly fun one for many. As we go into the second half of 2022, we can make a few predictions for how the year might turn out, and how translators and interpreters might want to prepare for it. We mentioned in our last […]

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 […]

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 […]

If you are bilingual and looking for a way to use it in a professional setting, chances are you are eyeing a job as a translator or an interpreter. But as you might quickly find out, it is not easy to just become an in-house translator for your dream company or a regularly used freelance […]

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 […]

When machine translation is mentioned, the most common thing to jump to mind is Google Translate. To most people, this is the face of machine translation and any other type of machine translation is just the same as Google Translate, but inferior or superior in some shape or form. However, there are actually four different […]

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 […]

Many people confuse localization with internationalization or just think internationalization is a part of localization. However, while they might seem similar, internationalization and localization are overall two different things altogether. Knowing the difference between the two and how to identify each one will be something that will help you set yourself apart from the crowd. […]