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…

Language Translation – Christmas in translation

What comes up in a Google search for Christmas and translation?This seasonal “Language Links” post will answer a question that somehow came to my mind this week: what is floating around the web on the subject of Christmas + translation? Fi…

Language Translation – Who speaks what language where?

You may have learned to answer this type of question in grade school, and at least some of what you think you know is likely wrong.Many countries have several official languages, and most of us know…well, most of us at least know that Canada is offic…

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…