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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘Fresh Produce’ is gaining awareness everywhere in the world.  Fresh produce markets (or Farmer’s market) are sprouting up all over, in cities big and small.  Many of these Farmer’s markets specialize in local, organically grown products. We were curious about the official translation of the term ‘fresh produce’ in other languages. Our search in Spanish […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Why do we translate Deutschland into Germany in English? By Emily Frye While studying abroad in France my sister and I decided to take a trip to Munich, Germany. While crossing the border by train a policewoman asked what we were doing in Europe.  I said that we were students in France and were visiting […]

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] […]

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 […]