Mandarin interpreting & translation services

Mandarin is the language with the most native speakers in the world, with more than a billion speakers in mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Chinese communities worldwide. In California it is the primary Chinese language of the San Gabriel Valley, where our Alhambra office is located, as well as Irvine, the South Bay, San Jose, and the Bay Area. Mandarin is a California court-designated language, and demand spans healthcare, courts, workers' compensation, education, and technology and manufacturing business.

Spoken Mandarin from mainland China (Putonghua) and Taiwan (Guoyu) is mutually intelligible with minor differences in accent and vocabulary, but Mandarin and Cantonese are not, so we always confirm which Chinese language a speaker uses. Our Mandarin interpreters are court-certified and HIPAA-trained, and they support simultaneous interpreting with equipment for conferences, shareholder meetings, and product events.

Written Chinese comes in two character sets: Simplified, used in mainland China and Singapore, and Traditional, used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Certified Chinese translation of household registers (hukou), notarial certificates, contracts, patents, medical records, and school documents is prepared in the character set the receiving audience expects, with desktop publishing that handles Chinese fonts and layout.