The American Translators Association’s divisions showcase a wide range of translation specialties.The American Translators Association, or ATA, boasts 11,000 members in over 90 countries. Membership privileges are extended not only to translators, bu…

As the saying goes, you learn something new every day. Today I learned something about the MICE industry. 250This post almost didn’t happen, because the headline that triggered it was entitled BRIDGING LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN THE MICE INDUSTRY. Now…

The Medical Division is the 3rd largest subgroup of the American Translators’ Association.The American Translators’ Association is organized in various subgroups, or divisions. The Medical Division is the third largest specialty group in the AT…

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…

Last week, Google added automatic translation of Latin to its translation platform. What’s in it for them? It truly warms the heart to think that Latin students will now have equal access to machine translation along with their Spanish-studying coun…

Last week, Google added automatic translation of Latin to its translation platform. What’s in it for them? It truly warms the heart to think that Latin students will now have equal access to machine translation along with their Spanish-studying coun…

Medical interpreting problems are often caused by bilinguals who are untrained in medical concepts and language interpreting.Indeed, it’s a point we have emphasized for years in this blog: being bilingual is not enough to be a successful medical …

We hear a lot about “dying languages.” But which ones are really on the verge of extinction?Languages, like species or cultures, can be endangered. When we think of languages that could disappear, we often think of obscure tribal languages, where t…

Translators can possess different skill levels, but how can these levels be assessed?A few weeks back, we posted a piece on foreign language levels, focusing on the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale that is often used in government and academ…