The Grand Island Fire Department is the first in the State of Nebraska to invest in the Enabling Language Service Anywhere (ELSA) language translation tool.It’s a new language interpreting tool that could potentially save hundreds of lives. The d…

Richard Smith was editor of the British Medical Journal for 13 years until 2004. He recently wrote about the fundamental importance of language translation and interpretation to global businesses and other enterprises. If you’ve read the book Fou…

Concerns about language interpretation standards and conditions in Australian courts and hospitals prompted a comprehensive two-year review of the previous code.A new code of ethics for language interpreters and translators has been released to the pub…

The Anaheim City Council has unanimously approved the addition of Spanish language interpreting services at all future City Council meetings for a one-year trial period.City staff will provide the Spanish language interpreter services during the public…

A former Afghan language interpreter believes the New Zealand Government’s decision to offer resettlement to translators has saved his family’s life.Sometimes risking your life as an interpreter in a warzone can make you eligible for special benefits…

The European Parliament has agreed to cut part of its language translation service, in a bid to shave its budget by some €8.6 million per year.As American lawmakers on this side of the pond consider raising taxes and cutting government spending to av…

Students from Morris Innovative High School in Dalton, Georgia are providing voluntary language interpretation services at parent-teacher conferences in local elementary schoolsA language gap looms especially large in this northwest Georgia county, hom…

The language translation process may sound easy to some. But in reality even the translation of a single word can prove surprisingly difficult.It seems we simply can’t get enough of Nataly Kelly, or of the recently released book she co-authored w…

Language translation affects your everyday life according to Nataly Kelly, so much so that she co-authored a just released book on the subject.Last week we reviewed the book Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World, …

Language translation touches every aspect of life. This is the main message of the just released book Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World, by Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche.In June we brought you a post outlinin…