Beware of mysterious anonymous blogs that are too well-written….In a curious blog dedicated, apparently, to the theme of “training,” I ran into an extremely pertinent list of “The 10 Benefits of Cross-Cultural Training.” I say…

In addition to running several websites in foreign languages, North Korea also has a presence on Twitter and YouTube.As has been widely reported in the press, it would appear that the Korean Central News Agency has launched a website with articles in E…

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…

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…

If re-elected, the Australian Labor party has promised to invest in language services for the elderly. Nationwide parliamentary elections were held in Australia on Saturday. Following a historically close race, the leading Labor and Liberal parties sti…

Our first new blog category deals with the main activities of language service providers: translation, localization and interpretation.We’ve just completed restructuring our blogs to better reflect what we do and what we write about. Language Tra…

About 80 percent of Vietnamese-Americans in the affected area have ties to the seafood industry.A CNN article and slideshow demonstrates how Vietnamese-Americans involved in the fishing and seafood industry are suffering from the Gulf oil spill. Along …