Quebec French language office president resigns over language translation controversy

The president of Quebec’s language office, Louise Marchand, has resigned following a slew of embarrassing international headlines generated by a French-language inspection controversy.Quebec’s French Language Minister Diane De Courcy has announced the …

Bravo once again to EU’s young language translators

The names of the 27 winners of the European Commission’s annual EU Young Translators (Juvenes Translatores) contest for secondary school pupils were published on January 28.Last year in March we first reported on the winners of the European Union&rsq…

Ntrepid Corporation Issued Language Translation Technology Patent

The patent covers the technology in Virtus Translator, a natural language processing (NLP) software optimized for structured data in spreadsheets and databases.The U.S. Patent Office has issued Ntrepid Corporation a patent covering its system for trans…

Language Translation – Why is Korea behind in language translation?

According to a language professor based in Seoul, the country has not yet professionalized its language service industry.Korea has an up-and-coming economy, as well as a large body of students studying English and other foreign languages. So why is th…

Language Translation – There must be 50 ways to learn a language

A European Union study suggests 50 ways to motivate language learners.Motivation is a key to successful language learning, and some would argue that it is the most important factor. As the US is faced with the challenge of boosting the nation’s …

Language Translation – Google working to translate Wikipedia into more languages

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…