About: christopher.hurtado

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Christopher Hurtado

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http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/about/people/

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Christopher Hurtado is a self-taught entrepreneur with a passion for technology, languages, learning, and teaching. He has more than 22 years of experience in translation, foreign language instruction and cross-cultural training. He has taught English as a second language (ESL) as well as Spanish and Arabic for English speakers. He is coauthor of Vacation Spanish: A Survival Guide for Mexico, the Caribbean, Central & South America (including a Brazilian Portuguese chapter). He is double majoring in Middle East Studies and Arabic and in philosophy at Brigham Young University. He Graduates in April of 2010. Since founding Linguistic Solutions in 1991, Hurtado has been using high tech/high touch methodologies to manage customer relationships, translation projects and a worldwide network of freelance translators while serving a variety of international clients, including Fortune 500 companies and high-tech startups. Linguistic Solutions breaks down language and cultural barriers through translation, interpretation, foreign language instruction and cross-cultural training. Hurtado was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in Venezuela, his father’s native country. He’s a childhood bilingual (English and Spanish) and also speaks Brazilian Portuguese, French and Arabic. He has lived in the United States, Venezuela and Jordan. He has traveled extensively in the United States, Venezuela, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel and less extensively in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Canada. He’s married to children’s book author Alysia Gonzalez. They have nine children and are active in their church and community.

Posts by christopher.hurtado:

• 30 May 2006 Immigrants Make English a Priority
• 30 May 2006 Maryland Lost in Translation
• 30 May 2006 WCMC-Q Training to Focus on Communication
• 30 May 2006 Hispanics: Business Ownership Key to American Dream
• 30 May 2006 Pinal County Program Taps Migrants to Teach
• 30 May 2006 Bush’s Won’t Support Official-English Bill
• 29 May 2006 Translation to Be Supervised
• 29 May 2006 Found in Translation: King’s ‘Dream’ Plays in Beijing
• 29 May 2006 Worry Over English Erosion Hardly New
• 29 May 2006 Fed Playbook Not Outdated by Globalization — Yellen
• 29 May 2006 Translation as Performance
• 29 May 2006 Generations Lost in Translation
• 29 May 2006 UNICEF Chief’s Theme for Middlebury Grads is Globalization
• 29 May 2006 Accessible Globalization
• 29 May 2006 Ariz. Tribes Unsure What Hayworth Means

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