Reach your primary market! Reach your target market and support the Association of Language Companies at the same time! With opportunities to sponsor, exhibit and/or advertise, you can make the personal connections so important to your business, gain the visibility you need and become an integral part of ALC. Advertise Advertise on the ALC website [...]
By Skyler Frink There are a lot of subtleties in language. Regions of every country have their own dialects, sentence structure is different for different languages and each dialect can have multiple types of slang. Raytheon BBN has been given the almost-impossible task of developing a device that can perform two-way speech-to-speech translations, among other [...]
The LEP Data Brief from the Migration Policy Institute contains information on the number, share, growth and linguistic diversity of limited English proficient individuals in the United States. This data is useful to any business or organization that is marketing and/or serving clients in the United States. In the day and age when we live [...]
COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) — Elsa Miller looked at the 17-year-old boy, listened carefully as he explained in Spanish the chest pains he was experiencing and relayed his words in English to Dr. Dekui Zhang, who was examining the boy at Volunteers in Medicine. Miller, standing behind the seated doctor, also relayed to the boy questions [...]
CLI’s owner, Bill Graeper, is part of a national group effort in the language industry to create standards that will be adopted by the American Society for Testing of Materials (ASTM). ASTM is a national organization that sets product and service standards for virtually every industry. You can read about them online here. Bill is [...]
The classification of language professionals as independent contractors has become a hot debate topic in the language services industry. The primary reason for this is because there are competitors within the industry who follow a different business model from that of Certified Languages International, and these competitors have gone public claiming that the use of [...]
This week our CLI’s CEO, Kristin Quinlan and President, Bill Graeper, will be attending Interpret America’s 2nd Annual Summit on Interpreting this week. On Friday, June 17th, Mr. Graeper will be having an armchair debate with Louis Provenzano, the CEO of Language Line Services. They will be debating on employee workplace issues, specifically the classification [...]
June 17-18 Interpret America will be hosting the 2nd Annual Summit on Interpreting. The topic of the conference is “How professional identity and technology are driving the future in our field.” During the conference, CLI’s owner and President, Bill Graeper, will be debating with Louis Provenzano, the CEO of Language Line, on the hot topic [...]
In addition to providing telephone and onsite interpreting services, CLI also provides document translation. Our translation process is very straightforward and easy to use, and we would like to take this opportunity to go over the few easy steps to streamline this service for our customers. When submitting a document for a translation quote, please [...]
For anyone who has had to use an interpreter, we know that there have been times where things feel like they get “Lost in Translation.” By following some basic guidelines you can easily prevent some of the common mis-steps that tend to complicate the interpreting experience. For Outbound Calls: • If you need to call [...]
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