Major League Baseball is trying to bridge the language gap, adopting a new rule that permits language interpreters to join mound conferences when pitchers aren’t fluent in English."The manager or coach would tell me something and I didn’t understa…

Erica De La Rosa appears in court nearly every day, but she never speaks for herself. As a certified court interpreter she literally speaks for others. Legal interpreting requires very specialized education and training. Many states require a special l…

A media expert argues that a “one-size-fits-all” approach Hispanic-oriented marketing won’t cut it anymore.As we have already pointed out in this blog, Spanish language translation is not enough to target Hispanic-American consumers. Of course, i…

Google Translate’s experiments with machine translation of poetry are yielding some intriguing results.In a post published last week on the Google Research blog, software engineer Dmitriy Genzel explains how Google is experimenting with poetry and st…

How can hospitals make sure doctors from foreign countries have necessary language skills?Beyond interpretation and foreign language skills, there is another language-related issue of crucial importance in medical settings: making sure that doctors and…

The Center for Translation Studies of the University of Texas at Dallas has identified key advantages of translation.In its “Manifesto for Translation Studies,” the University of Texas at Dallas spells out the benefits of translation in ver…