Over the past several decades, as the number of Spanish-speakers in the United States has risen sharply, the language itself has come to change and evolve. While it may not come as a surprise to most people, driving through places like Miami, Southern California, and many parts of New York City, Texas, Arizona, and New […]
May is known as a time for new growth and it’s been a busy month at Affordable Language Services. Because of the increasing requests for our interpreting services, we have been adding to our interpreting team, including staff interpreters, recruiters and scheduling. As you can imagine, everyone here has been busy keeping our customers happy […]
On Friday, Affordable Language Services kicked off a case study at the Academy for Multilingual Immersion Studies. Over the course of ten weeks, the students in Ms. McNatt’s junior high class will help us solve an important problem: how many interpreters do we need, and what languages should they speak, for the Cincinnati of the future? […]
By this point in the year, many new year’s resolutions are beginning to falter. Don’t let your goal to learn a language be one of them. Now that you’ve started attacking the problem in every way possible, using the extra time you didn’t realize you had, it’s time to make these efforts more effective. As Barry […]
It’s time to make your resolutions for the new year. While I may not be able to give you any advice about losing weight or kicking that bad habit, I can help when it comes to the most in-demand job skill: fluency in a foreign language. There are so many different ways to learn a language […]
In keeping with the sign language theme this week, we thought we’d share something that’s not American Sign Language, but a different kind of signing. It took a while for standard sign language to reach Scotland and the Deaf had to communicate with one another and the hearing community long before that. (The earliest records […]
Last Wednesday Lynn Elfers, owner of Affordable Language Services, spoke at the Indian American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) meeting for the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky chapter. Her topic was the importance of accurate translation in business, and how to set yourself (or your company) up for a successful translation. If you’re purchasing a translation, […]
Our Spring Whitepaper is here! We’ve pooled some ways you can avoid potentially costly miscommunications in your workplace. Click the link below and read up. Avoiding Miscommunication in a Multilingual Workplace
It’s a simple question, but can you ask and respond to it in Swahili? We recently had a man come to us for some help with this task. He was planning a trip to Kenya and wanted to speak the native language before he left. We set him up with Timothy, a native speaker of […]
Lots of reasons. Hunch.com recently asked its users, “in how many languages could you call a restaurant and make a reservation?” If you’re thinking “just one,” you’re in the majority. Only 40% of 129,626 users felt comfortable saying they could perform the task in 2 or more languages. So why learn another language when machine […]