Meridian Linguistics Ltd. is a linguistic consulting agency incorporated in Hong Kong, with managers in New York, Seoul, and Montpellier.

Our over 3,000+ vetted linguists based all over the world offer translation, localization, phonetic and phonemic transcription, linguistic annotation, linguistic analysis, and more.

Since we understand your language needs are often urgent, we make full use of our partners across all time zones in order to meet your deadline.

For translation, we leverage cutting-edge translation technology (SDL Trados, SmartCat, Lilt, ABBYY, and more) to keep your costs low while ensuring the highest level of quality assurance.

Our satisfied clients include Airbnb, Alibaba, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Human Rights Watch, and Naver..

Meet the team

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SARA MARIA HASBUN received her degree in Linguistics from Columbia University, and then studied translation at New York University.

A native English speaker, Sara Maria can also speak Spanish, French, American Sign Language, Mandarin Chinese, and basic Korean.

As founder of Meridian Linguistics, she leads a team of linguists and translators that help guide technology companies as they build language products.

Sara Maria is based in Asia. She also blogs about her adventures in language learning at misslinguistic.com.

ALEX GRASSI is an experienced Commercial Director with a strong track record of successfully driving corporate growth and strategy in several industries world-wide.

Raised in Rome, Italy and having worked and lived in different parts of the world, Alex has an avid appreciation for food and wine, a love for classical music, a passion for football (soccer) and enjoys the thrill of new frontiers in the beautiful depths of our oceans as a Rescue Diver.

NATALIA POSTRIGAN, USA Project Manager, is a court-certified interpreter and translator with an MBA degree from Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. She is also a movie geek and a subtitle translator to many TV shows that you have undoubtedly heard of. In addition to English and Russian, Natalia speaks basic Chinese Mandarin, Japanese and German.

TATIANA SUBAREVIC, Europe Project Manager, is based in Montpellier, France, and covers the European timezone for Meridian Linguistics. She is a Conference Interpreter and sworn translator for French and Serbian. Tatiana speaks fluent French, Serbian and English.

CARINA PICHLER, Asia Project Manager, is currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and covers the Asian timezone for Meridian Linguistics. She grew up in Austria and developed a love for languages and an interest in exploring different cultures from an early age. In addition to German and English, Carina speaks fluent Thai and basic Italian.

Our 3,000+ Linguists are based all over the world, holding certifications and diplomas from top translation and interpretation programs and institutions. Our specialized phoneticians, linguistic annotators, and computational linguists work in dozens of languages and have helped businesses like Amazon and Google build their language technology. As Meridian Linguistics is consistently rated one of the best LSP’s at which to work, our linguists are loyal and highly incentivized to return high-quality work.