Language Translation – Cultural differences and Alzheimer’s

Not all cultures readily recognize Alzheimer’s disease as a medical condition, as one family’s story reveals. Last week, we cited an excellent article from The Bay Citizen that emphasized the growing need for health care language services in America’s…

Language Translation – Cultural differences and Alzheimer’s

Not all cultures readily recognize Alzheimer’s disease as a medical condition, as one family’s story reveals.Last week, we cited an excellent article from The Bay Citizen that emphasized the growing need for health care language services in America’s a…

Language Translation – Can machines translate emotions ?

A computer scientist is studying ways to express emotions in automated translations of Urdu.You may not know much about Urdu, but it is spoken by around 65 million people, mainly in India and Pakistan. It is quite similar to Hindi, and the two tongues …

Language Translation – Top 2011 European April Fools’ hoaxes

Here are a few of this year’s top April Fools’ hoaxes from the other side of the pond. With their significant time zone advance, European countries were pretty much finished with their April fooling around by the time US jokes were at pe…

Language Translation – Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Medical Translator!

Medical school students take a humorous look at medical interpreting.Doc Opera is a variety show created by students from the Case School of Medicine. All of the performances are carried out by the medical students and deal with “the amusing sid…

Language Translation – Cool Sites for Language Lovers 3: Oneword

If you don’t have time to pore over word websites, Oneword is a perfect platform – it doesn’t have much time for you, either.You like words, and would like to channel your inner writer. But you don’t have the time, don’t have the insp…

Language Translation – Translators, interpreters needed in wake of Japan disaster

As the extent of the catastrophe unfolds, linguistic needs are coming to the forefront.Japan is on all of our minds. One group of professionals not always associated with relief efforts is being recruited to provide help: translators and interpreters….

Language Translation – Language translation used to target problem gamblers

Pennsylvania is reaching out to limited English proficiency speakers about a very specific problem: gambling addiction.Blogging about languages and language translation is a continual discovery. Just when you think you’ve covered it all, somethin…

Language Translation – Mistranslated telephone transcript leads to trouble

A Canadian resident spent several months under warrant for arrest in Italy because of a poorly translated phone conversation.A February 27 news story from The Toronto Sun reveals that area businessman Salvatore Oliveti has been exonerated from all char…

Language Translation – Mistranslated telephone transcript leads to trouble

A Canadian resident spent several months under warrant for arrest in Italy because of a poorly translated phone conversation.A February 27 news story from The Toronto Sun reveals that area businessman Salvatore Oliveti has been exonerated from all char…