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 […]
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Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) Career Fair
February 25, 2011 Career Fair Tate Miller, Dean at the Center for Advising and Career Services at Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), conveyed to us that many students had wonderful conversations with us at the MIIS job fair. This brought back a lot of fond memories. The feeling is mutual; we also had a […]
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The City of Marina, where Monterey Language Services is headquartered, is the 7th largest multilingual city in the United States. On its 35th anniversary, we would like to wish the City a Happy Birthday in the following languages: Spanish, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, German, Tagalog, Hebrew, Samoan, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, and Portuguese. Thanks to […]
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At Monterey Language Services, we are always searching for interesting tidbits to lift our spirits. Here is one good example. Deborah Fallows has a Ph.D. in linguistics. She decided to immerse herself into Chinese culture by learning Chinese. In her new book, Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love and Language, Fallows provides intriguing […]
>> Read MoreThe Art of Interpretation
The following insights shared by our team members look at the two types of hermeneutics, or art of interpretation, and their role in translation and interpretation market place. Exegesis is a straightforward, factual explanation. It assumes that a text contains fixed and invariant meaning. The exegete is a neutral or objective expositor, a transmitter of […]
>> Read MoreMonterey Language Services Hit the Headlines of Major Media
Monterey Language Services got huge attention from the most prestigious newspaper in Monterey County, and the most famous translation and interpretation school in the world. Check us out. The Monterey County Herald In the News [click on the image] Monterey Institute of International Studies http://www.miis.edu/about/newsroom/stories/node/21128 [to view it in PDF, click here] […]
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Monterey Language Services (MLS), situated in the rolling hills a few miles from the Pacific Ocean in Monterey County, California, is a jewel of Monterey County — artistic, creative, multicultural, and language-oriented in an inspiring environment. MLS team members are professional, dedicated and passionate about languages and foreign cultures. We are oriented towards finding the […]
>> Read MoreTranslating Real Estate into Russian
Lee Eisenberg, one of our team members and Russian-to-English translators, shares a wonderful story about how he handles translation between two different cultures using the definition of “real estate” as an example, and how subject knowledge is important for a translator. The picture of him was taken in St. Petersburg, Russia, standing on the frozen […]
>> Read MoreThe French translation of “Human Rights” is the “Rights of Man”
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations is officially translated by the French as the Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme. If we translate this word for word back into English it is The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man. Just men? Are our French friends stuck in some male-chauvinist […]
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Did you know that Norwegian has a smaller vocabulary compared to English, but is richer in words describing nature and weather? A member of our staff turned on the radio and this interesting discussion came right up on National Public Radio. http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-04-28/readers-review-out-stealing-horses-petterson Jeffry Frank, co-author of a translation of “The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen” […]
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