Using portable language translation machines, police in Jackson, Mississippi have taken steps to improve communications and public relations with non-English-speaking city residents.At the end of June the Jackson Police Department (JPD) announced it wo…

A report by the Anna Lindh Foundation emphasizes that increasing the language translation of Arabic works to European languages is crucial for the enhancement of Arab-European cultural relations.According to Bikya Masr, the Ana Lindh Foundation report,…

Despite being the fifth most spoken language globally, with some 280 million native speakers, Arabic translation lags well behind most of the lesser-spoken languages, including Russian, Greek, Polish and Czech.According to the UNESCO Index Translation,…

The simplest form of communication when travelling in foreign countries may be a picture book.Summer is travel time, and trips to far-away locales are increasingly frequent. For many Americans, “going abroad” used to mean a trip to Mexico o…

The simplest form of communication when travelling in foreign countries may be a picture book.Summer is travel time, and trips to far-away locales are increasingly frequent. For many Americans, “going abroad” used to mean a trip to Mexico o…

There are plenty of good reasons to learn foreign languages, and some are related to national security and economic competitiveness.Foreign languages are still electives in most US school systems, and college students may find it impossible to get into…

Under a new project, more Wikipedia articles will be made available in languages as diverse as Gujarati and Swahili.Wikipedia offers free information to Internet users all over the world. But for the moment, according to Wikipedia’s statistics, o…