The publication of a new Ofsted report into Modern Language teaching in the United Kingdom (titled ‘Modern Languages –Achievement and Challenge 2007-2010’) has revealed that, although “significant efforts” have been made to improve teaching, students are being hindered by teachers’ “unpreparedness” to use languages in class.
The report follows up on Ofsted’s previous 2008 survey and […]

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A survey by ‘The Challenging Racism Project’ has revealed some encouraging results about the condition of racial relations in Australia. The lead researcher Professor Kevin Dunn, from the University of Western Sydney, said that the results have shown that “Australia is in fact a very tolerant country…but [that] there is a problem with racism [within […]

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Minimum requirements to work as a health care interpreter vary from state to state, but the necessary skills don’t.Few educational institutions offer training courses in health care interpreting, and a national certification process is just getting u…

Minimum requirements to work as a health care interpreter vary from state to state, but the necessary skills don’t.Few educational institutions offer training courses in health care interpreting, and a national certification process is just getting u…

The latest goal of researchers at Google is to create a computer that can translate poetry. This ‘Al Complete task’ is “as difficult as anything we can attempt in artificial intelligence”, states Dmitriy Genzel, a research scientist at Google. What particular difficulties are there in the translation of poetry?
Google is not alone in the development […]

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Google is known for encouraging their employees’ creativity to run wild. A new site called “Translation Telephone” is a good example.According to the Programmable Web blog, a Google employee, Pamela White, has created an online version of the pop…

By very good fortune a translation scam using Kwintessential’s name and brand has been exposed by an eagle-eyed translator.
The email was sent to the translator, who shall be called Mr X, requesting information for a large project.
Dear Mr. X
As translation office on the west coast of the US, we are looking for freelance […]

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In the second post of a series about top linguistic sites, we will examine the artistic word site “Wordle.”. A lot of word-oriented sites are all about information, but Wordle is oriented towards creation. Perhaps you don’t recognize the nam…

One of the Relationship Managers in our UK office came across a clever bit of global marketing from the people at AT&T.
US Consumers actually voted the campaign as “America’s Favorite Magazine Ad” in a  contest sponsored by Magazine Publishers of America back in 2009.  In the “Hands” campaign, created by BBDO, human hands are intricately […]

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John Yunker (of  Byte Level) will be speaking in a seminar on February 24th. The webinar is being hosted by Lionbridge. John will be talking about translation agencies (also known as LSPs) and what he has learned over the years as both a buyer and seller of translation services.
The webinar will be of interest if […]

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