City of Los Angeles launches election outreach campaign in 10 languages

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…

City of Los Angeles launches election outreach campaign in 10 languages

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…

EU Parliament makes cuts to language translation budget

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…

Suffolk County Executive in the U.S. State of New York Signs Executive Order Ensuring Language Access for All County Residents

County Executive Bellone Signs Executive Order Ensuring Language Access for All Suffolk County Residents; Advocates Praise Executive Order that Aligns Suffolk County with Policies Implemented by Governor Cuomo.Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has…

A bright spot in hurricane Sandy and the biggest unheard of global industry

The language services industry, encompassing interpreting, translation, localization, and related technologies – is worth $33 billion globally, according to the latest market size estimates from Common Sense Advisory.She’s back! In a guest post…

Translating and the Computer Conference: 29 & 30 November 2012

The 34th Translating and the Computer Conference in London is a meeting point for translators, researchers and students in the translation and localization field.The annual Translating and the Computer Conference is a meeting point for international tr…

Ten words that are exceptionally difficult to translate Part 2

The difficulty in translating some words depends on what language you are translating from and the one you are working into, because some languages lack linguistic equivalents for concepts that are foreign to their culture.We now continue with the seco…

Ten words that are exceptionally difficult to translate Part 1

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…

Ten reasons why language translation is significant to your life Part 2

You might not think about how language translation affects your everyday life, but according to Nataly Kelly, there is hardly anything in your life that isn’t touched in some way by language translation.We now continue with the second part of this two-…

Ten reasons why language translation is significant to your life Part 1

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, …