Recently quite a few new friends have “liked” us on Facebook. We would like to take this opportunity to welcome our friends from all across the U.S. and let them know a little bit about who we are and what we do!

Our team is made up of graduates and students from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) and other translation universities. We are language people and a solid provider of translation and interpretation services. Almost all of us have been in the language industry for our entire lives.

Bridging languages is something we do every single day. We consider ourselves a bridge, connecting two different languages and two different people. We put this idea in our logo, which represents us as the red apex, signifying the spirit which underlies our work.

Imagine: an interpreter is facilitating communication between doctors and patients in a hospital setting (medical interpretation), a translator is working on a PowerPoint presentation from English to French, two colleagues are working in an office to utilize their language skills to compose a blog… you get the picture. These are all happening simultaneously in Monterey Language Services. What a powerful experience this is we are encountering!

Learning foreign languages can open a lot of doors and lead to opportunities you never would have expected. Monterey Language Services is the place where all of these things come together and that is one major reason students love coming to work with us.

We are fulfilling our passion, and most importantly, we have fun doing it! 

As a director of translation for years, I have worked with many translators and interpreters.  The most important quality I found in them is being responsible and taking their jobs to the heart.  It’s such a pleasure to work with them.   Here is one good example.  ~Mei-Ling Chen

by Lee Eisenberg

I have done many translation projects.  I find translation to be a satisfying practice because I feel as though I have just contributed something to the world that I’m living in.

I just translated a newlywed marriage certificate from Spanish to English.  The work involves not only translating each word.  We must know how to translate a position such as Mexico’s Secretaría de Gobernación (Secretary of Interior), and what an extemporaneous birth certificate is.  We also have to ensure to format the translation properly.  Correct formatting makes the translation look official and easier to read.

All in all, translating this project gives me a true feeling of accomplishment.  I feel joy for the people who have just gotten married.  It might be a small thing to do, but I’m definitely proud to have done it, and I wish the newlyweds well.