Fully automated and simultaneous language translation is within 5 years of being perfected according to a recent article in The Economist.If you follow this blog, you may know that on occasion we’ve made reference to Star Trek and the ‘univ…

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…

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…

Everyone says that speaking two languages opens horizons; it may even change the way you think.New research from Newcastle University (UK) suggests that speaking more than one language literally changes the way people see the world. The phenomenon is …

Everyone says that speaking two languages opens horizons; it may even change the way you think.New research from Newcastle University (UK) suggests that speaking more than one language literally changes the way people see the world. The phenomenon is …

As the extent of the catastrophe unfolds, linguistic needs are coming to the forefront.Japan is on all of our minds. One group of professionals not always associated with relief efforts is being recruited to provide help: translators and interpreters….

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…