The introduction of the three new features to Google Translate should help users distinguish among different possible translations of a given word.In September we reported that Google had added Lao as its 65th language to its Translate service. Now the…

In response to growth in the San Diego Chinese voter population, the Registrar of Voters office is printing the ballot and other voting materials in Chinese.With the general election just around the corner, efforts are underway to accommodate the needs…

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…

An ambitious telephone service gives newcomers to the Greater Toronto Area in Canada access to 24/7 medical language interpretation.The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is a major metropolitan area in Canada and 41 per cent of its population is comprised of …

Increasing state and federal requirements for communicating with limited English speakers have challenged hospital administrators to find cost-effective solutions for this problem.??There are an estimated 47 million residents in the United States w…

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…

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…

Japan’s largest mobile carrier is about to launch the world’s first commercial service for language translation of conversations and signs between Japanese and other languages.Earlier this year in June we reported that NTT DOCOMO was conducting a tri…

Japan’s largest mobile carrier is about to launch the world’s first commercial service for language translation of conversations and signs between Japanese and other languages.Earlier this year in June we reported that NTT DOCOMO was conducting a tri…

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-…