What’s in Your Kit? The Medical Translator’s Guide to Navigating Clinical Trials and Investigational DocumentationErin M. Lyons will present this 60 minute webinar in English on July 19, 2012 at 12 Noon US Eastern Time. Medical translators often fo…

If you speak either Catalan or Ukrainian, you’ll be glad to know that Twitter has added both to its list of available languages, bringing the total number of supported languages to 30.Back in March, we reported that Twitter had completed work to supp…

Using portable language translation machines, police in Jackson, Mississippi have taken steps to improve communications and public relations with non-English-speaking city residents.At the end of June the Jackson Police Department (JPD) announced it wo…

As online translation services continue to evolve, will the traditional language translation and interpretation business become obsolete – and is the industry considered recession-proof?In these tough economic times, it’s hard to imagine an ind…

As Cincinnati begins to host the 2012 World Choir Games, a small army of volunteers is on hand to provide language translation for thousands of international visitors who are expected to attend the event. While the world’s focus this summer may b…

Erica De La Rosa appears in court nearly every day, but she never speaks for herself. As a certified court interpreter she literally speaks for others. Legal interpreting requires very specialized education and training. Many states require a special l…

As part of an ongoing effort to expand its global reach to international readers, the New York Times is introducing a Chinese-language Web site.The New York Times has launched a Chinese-language web site this week. According to Christine Haughney on th…

Millions of tourists from all over the world will converge in London for the 2012 Olympics next month, making the city the perfect location to test a new iPhone speech translation app.Back in March we posted s story about a new language translation iPh…

A report by the Anna Lindh Foundation emphasizes that increasing the language translation of Arabic works to European languages is crucial for the enhancement of Arab-European cultural relations.According to Bikya Masr, the Ana Lindh Foundation report,…

Study suggests that limited language proficiency can lead to clinical consequences.Last April we reported on a study conducted in March at two pediatric ERs that found that mistakes which could have "clinical consequences," like giving the wr…