While it is crucial for court interpreters to be highly qualified, new testing systems are making it harder for courts to find interpreters at all.Which situation is preferable in a courtroom: poorly-qualified interpreters, no interpreters at all, or h…

The multi-lingual subcontinent is not keeping up with the demand for language services, especially in the medical and legal fields.A recent post from the excellent language services blog Global Watchtower explains that India is in need of more tra…

We often focus on the world’s most widely used languages. But which ones are losing the race against time?Many people wonder which language is spoken by the most people, but which one has the fewest speakers? As has been widely reported in the mains…

Not all cultures readily recognize Alzheimer’s disease as a medical condition, as one family’s story reveals. Last week, we cited an excellent article from The Bay Citizen that emphasized the growing need for health care language services in America’s…

Not all cultures readily recognize Alzheimer’s disease as a medical condition, as one family’s story reveals.Last week, we cited an excellent article from The Bay Citizen that emphasized the growing need for health care language services in America’s a…

German social games developer MegaZebra got going early in localization and is reaping the benefits.For an online game company, it’s wonderful to have fun and addictive concepts. And it’s even better to be able to market them over large portions of the…

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…

An aging population means a greater need for medical language translation and interpretation.In this blog, we have often reported on the increasing demand for medical services in the health care sector. But just why is the need for these services incre…

A computer scientist is studying ways to express emotions in automated translations of Urdu.You may not know much about Urdu, but it is spoken by around 65 million people, mainly in India and Pakistan. It is quite similar to Hindi, and the two tongues …

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…