The Los Angeles City Clerk’s office has launched an ambitious voter outreach initiative in L.A. County’s nine most commonly spoken languages in addition to English. It’s called “L.A. City Votes!” and it’s a campaign aimed at exp…

The Los Angeles City Clerk’s office has launched an ambitious voter outreach initiative in L.A. County’s nine most commonly spoken languages in addition to English. It’s called “L.A. City Votes!” and it’s a campaign aimed at exp…

Could the increasing quality of machine translation discourage learners from tackling Asian languages?An interesting and eye-opening debate is taking place online at the Australian-based Lowy Institute for International Policy blog. Although the blog i…

While our website was overhauled, our three blogs went on a break too. If you have been to the Language Translation Inc. website lately, you may have noticed a new look. And if you have come to this blog lately, you may have noticed a distinct lack of…

Any type of automatic translation gives iffy results, but voice to text has an especially long way to go. In my language teaching career, I have been confronted with software that is supposed to measure the correction of students’ accents and int…

Among other brain-related benefits, learning foreign languages appears to improve your memory.Bilinguals see things differently… Bilinguals learn foreign languages more easily than monolinguals… And now, a study suggests that learning foreign lan…

Here are a few of this year’s top April Fools’ hoaxes from the other side of the pond. With their significant time zone advance, European countries were pretty much finished with their April fooling around by the time US jokes were at pe…

Total immersion in a foreign language can be a great way to learn, but it is not always a magical solution.You hear it all the time: “the only way to learn a foreign language is to go live in a foreign country.” As a long-time language tea…

If you want to get an exotic tattoo in a foreign tongue, you had best be sure of the translation.We all know tattoos are the rage in the USA, but were you aware that tattoo mistranslation is a recognized problem? Even the rich and the famous have been…

Medical interpreting problems are often caused by bilinguals who are untrained in medical concepts and language interpreting.Indeed, it’s a point we have emphasized for years in this blog: being bilingual is not enough to be a successful medical …