I wanted to personally thank you for all you did in helping me get [our client] set up with an interpreter and the way you went the extra mile to help.

I will certainly contact you again if we are in need of someone to help us with interpretation. The interpreters that were here at Sealy were wonderful and very professional. The young man especially fit right into the situation. . . you would have thought he was a Sealy employee the way he explained everything--both that I met were just great.

— Linda Wright, Sealy, Inc.

News Article
Lucia Besozzi De Ratmiroff, one of our translator / interpreters, in an interview with the local paper, talks about the work.

 

Current Events

Language Resources has been a member of Kiva for a year and a half.  We recently received the final payment on our first loan and have made a loan to another entrepreneur.  We hope to raise more money this year to put towards microloans.

Company Profile 

Language Resources was founded in 1984 as an English as a Second Language (ESL) institute by Kathleen Quinby. Foreign language training, interpreting and translation services evolved from this core business as the needs of the local community grew. Language Resources, Inc. currently provides translation and interpreting services in more than 55 languages. We are a full corporate member of the American Translators Association.

Above Photo: Silver Anniversary Party, December 2009

Kathleen Quinby, President and Director of Language Resources, Inc., has worked her entire career in the field of ESOL and foreign language learning. In 1976, she joined the Peace Corps and volunteered in South Korea for two and a half years teaching University level English classes and conducting teacher training programs. After working as an academic director for two years in an intensive academic English language program in Indiana, Ms. Quinby went to work for the United Nations helping to set up language training for Southeast Asians in a Refugee Camp in Bataan, Philippines. In 1982, she received her Master's Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. She has also set up language programs for Citibank in Turkey, for a computer programming company in Japan and for World Learning in Winchester, Virginia. For an article about Kathleen's work, click here.

 

         ******    Rachel Endsley is now our Interpreting Coordinator. Raised on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, she graduated in 2009 from UNC- Greensboro with  degrees in English and French.  Rachel has found creative ways to spend time in a variety of other cultures and environments.  In 2006 she spent a month in Angers, France in an intensive language program while studying Loire Valley history and culture. From May to August of 2007 she went to British Columbia through WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) to work on an organic blueberry farm.  In 2008, through a UNCG honors program, Rachel was able to spend six months in Northern Ireland studying film and poetry and researching economic revitalization.  She has taught French and English as a Second Language as well as assisted in the UNCG Writing Center as a writing consultant.