Member: churtado

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Favorite authorsMortimer J. Adler, Aristotle, Robert Baer, Stephen R. Covey, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph J. Ellis, Jeffrey J. Fox, Thomas L. Friedman, Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, C. S. Lewis, Leonard Peikoff, Daniel C. Peterson, Ayn Rand, B.H. Roberts, Tim Sanders, Ilan Stavans, David Stove, Jules Verne, Simon Winchester, Ludwig Wittgenstein (Shared favorites)

About meI’m a self-taught entrepreneur with a passion for technology, languages, learning, and teaching. I have more than 22 years of experience in translation, foreign language instruction and cross-cultural training. I've taught English as a second language (ESL) and Spanish for English speakers. I recently coauthored, Vacation Spanish: A Survival Guide for Mexico, the Caribbean, Central & South America (including a Brazilian Portuguese chapter).

Since founding Linguistic Solutions in 1991, I’ve 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.

I was born in Baltimore, Maryland. I grew up in Venezuela, my father's native country. I’m a childhood bilingual (English and Spanish) and also speak Portuguese, French, and Arabic. I’m married to children's book author Alysia Gonzalez. We have nine children and are active in our church and community.

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About my libraryMy library includes the following genres: Biography, Globalization, History (mostly U.S. revolutionary) Language (dictionaries, grammars and phrase books in 13 dead and living languages) Linguistics (mostly applied), Literature (mostly European classic and Hispanic), Marketing, Middle East Studies (Arabic, history, political science,religion), Networking (business and computer networking) Philosophy (Western and Islamic), Rhetoric, Sales, Success Literature, Theology (Latter-day Saint or LDS) Translation & Localization, Writing (mostly reference), etc. I'm still working on adding all the books in my library to my LibraryThing library.

Homepagehttp://www.christopherhurtado.com

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Real nameChristopher Hurtado

LocationMapleton, Utah

Emailchristopher.hurtadolinguisticsolutions.com

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Member sinceJun 7, 2006