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What Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) means for your Business
If you provide health services and receive federal financial assistance…
Optimizing Remote Interpreting: Top 5 Best Practices
Our team shares our favorite, proven strategies for preparing and then making the most of your over-the-phone or video remote interpreting session. In today’s globalized world, effective communication knows no…
How do Remote Interpreting Services work?
Over the Phone (OPI) and Video-Remote (VRI) Interpretation are cornerstones of SpokenHere’s language services. While these two services differ in the WAY that service is provided…
American Sign Language Interpretation Service Hours Extended
While many language interpretation requests are fulfilled onsite, less common language needs as well as the highly demanded languages are more easily met over phone…
Medical Interpreter Services for Healthcare Providers
The United States is more diverse than it has ever been. Rapidly changing demographics create a specific set of challenges for healthcare providers serving Limited English…
[Snack Video] How to Understand Swahili on the Phone
Have you ever done trigonometry….in Chinese? Built a house of cards in a wind tunnel? Gotten a millennial to put their mobile device down? Those things are…
[Snack Video] Interpreters vs. Translators
As expert and passionate linguists, we get accused of being the grammar police, nit-picky and, well, just rude in some cases. We have no idea what all those people are…
[Snack Video] 7 Interesting Language Facts
Languages are an interesting thing. Where did they come from? Why are there so many different ones? Why are they so different from thousands of years ago? Well, as lovers…
[Translation 101] “Misunderstanding Down Under”
We’ve all seen those embarrassing mistranslations from all over the world of signs and consumer product packaging. The Internet is rife with these funny, real world…