Though these two piano short clips are not played perfectly or professionally, we hope you can still feel our most sincere wishes being conveyed to you. There’s a certain rawness and unpolished sound from the music that goes straight to the deepest of our emotions. We don’t have to be a professional musician to tell a story or convey emotion, and that’s exactly what human touch or human aura is all about, and that’s what we would like to share for this year!

Happy New Year to everyone from Monterey Language Services! We wish you good health, peace, and success in the coming year! We have also prepared a holiday playlist for you to enjoy.

Please join us wholeheartedly in greeting the year 2024! Here’s to a year of aura and joy. Have a wonderful holiday season!

First music: played by Mei-Ling, our director of translation
Second music: played by Mei-Ling’s piano teacher Dian

Happy New Year to everyone from Monterey Language Services! We wish you all the greatest in the coming year – Good Health, Happiness, and Success!

May all the challenges and adventures you tackle give you knowledge and wisdom for the next ones! Please join us in greeting the year 2023 wholeheartedly with all our colleagues, friends, and loved ones! Happy New Year!

2022 will be a new, fresh start for all of us to accomplish even more than we were able to in 2021. We wish that all your dreams come true in the new year!

Please join us in greeting the year 2022 wholeheartedly with all our colleagues, friends, and loved ones! Happy New Year!

Being a well-rounded translator is not a bad idea, but many translators have their own specialty that they have developed and focused on for their entire career. Sometimes though, translators and interpreters might want a change of pace, and break into different fields. While this isn’t easy, it’s also not impossible to start fresh in a new specialty field. So long as you have the determination and patience necessary to change your specialization, you can do it.

Depending on the field that you are switching to, what you will need to do will change. For example, if you want to go into a technical field such as information technology, you should focus on gaining knowledge of the field to be able to adequately translate or interpret the materials given to you. The best way to do this is to go back to school, or perhaps take a course at a community college. The latter choice would be a relatively inexpensive and an easy way to get the necessary knowledge of information technology. If there are any gaps in your expertise that need to be filled, you can try to contact experts and ask them to give you advice and answer any questions that you might have.

For everything else, there is the internet. For example, if you are trying to learn about the finance, there are many online resources such as investopedia that highlight the intricacies of financial documents. Other fields such as technology—especially more specific fields that deal with things such as data centers, contact centers, cloud services, and cyber security—have very specific terminology that translators who do not specialize in the field might have trouble translating correctly. For these, it might take you some time to read and research online.

For legal and medical matters, it is not as easy as just going back to school. You also need to take required training and have enough experience to satisfactorily translate or interpret matters of the law or medical fields. Experience is tricky to gain without having prior knowledge or specialization, but you can try working as an interpreter in training and begin trying to get your knowledge and experience that way. Try to expose yourself to opportunities and learn on the job, or go back to school and try to learn more about legal or medical terminology. Furthermore, do your best to build a portfolio of your work so that you can quickly show employers what you can bring to the table. Sometimes some work that you’ve done has elements that stand out in other work. With a portfolio, you can easily point to the work you’ve done and prove that you are capable of working in the field.