The more people you can reach out to through social media networks, the better. That’s where foreign languages come in.I just ran across an article entitled “Secrets to Social Media Success in Foreign Languages.” (The link will be include…
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Language interpreters can help athletes play their game. Language interpretation holds down a key role in many sectors: medicine, law, and business, to name a few. Although we don’t know of any language service providers specialized in t…
In the last of a 3-blog series, we’ll pull up a few of our most interesting posts from our “Language and Culture” blog.As a language service provider, the heart of our business is, of course, languages. And whether we are working in translation, …
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We continue to take a look back at 2011 with a review of favorite posts from our “Medical Translation and Interpretation” blog.Our medical language services blog stream covers the most specific subject matter of our three blog channels. The posts a…
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Actually, these are just my favorites…You may not have noticed that our Language Translation Inc. blog contains three distinct streams, or channels: one about language translation and interpretation; another one dealing with medical language services…
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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…
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Over 100,000 would-be translators are on the waiting list for Duolingo, a platform with a unique approach to crowdsourcing.A few months ago, I wrote a post about how translation is falling back into favor as a language learning method, at least among s…
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While Spanish remains the most-requested language for telephone interpreting in the USA, other languages are showing growing demand.The results of a recent report, published in a Mediapost.com article, show developments in the market for telephone inte…
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Used in New Zealand, the “Pharmacy Translation Kit” has added 4 new languages.We first reported on New Zealand’s “Pharmacy Translation Kit” when it came out in 2008. The result of a research project sponsored by the N.Z. Pharmacy…
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Founded in 1993, the organization’s mission is to support humanitarian work by providing free translations.The original organization Traducteurs sans Frontières (TSF) was founded in 1993 by Lori Thicke and Ros Smith-Thomas to help translators …
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