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to Bolivia South America to live for seven
years. While there, she perfected her
Spanish in reading and writing. Without
the capability to translate between
two languages, she might have been
constrained to the boundaries of just one
country. Her first language instruction
taught her that words have memories,
a story of their own. There are never
two words that have exactly the same
meaning. To reconstruct one language
into another language, she knew that she
needed to understand what went into
making the original language for her to
disassemble it and rebuild it in the other
language.
Even she did not immediately see that
her love of language would translate
into a business. Still, Melina also knew
that she wanted to do something that
helped others. She realized that she
had an attitude of servitude. Melina
tried a variety of career paths related to
customer services such as telemarketing,
theme parks, and retail sales. It was not
until she started working for another
big company that her eyes were open
to the need for translation services.
COURTESY KALYSA WILSON