Recent industry news suggests that apps may be the key to raising multi-lingual offspring. What’s the real story?I was intrigued by an article that came across my news alerts: “Six-Year Old Girl on Track to Learn 4th Language,” published …
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Our new website features communicative visuals and an easy-to-navigate structure. If you keep up any type of website, you know it is an ongoing task. Eventually, information accumulates, and you can find yourself managing a maze. That’s when yo…
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Musicals are being produced in more countries than ever before. The question is: how can they translate?Historically, musical comedies have largely been an American and British tradition. In the past, musical comedy productions were relatively rare in …
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The computer application MediBabble provides medical staff with a way to ask key medical history questions in 5 languages.MediBabble is a free medical translation application. Developed by UCSF medical students Brad Cohn and Alex Blau, it provides spok…
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Nearly 1 million children in the British school system are not native English speakers.In Europe, Britain is often held up as a model of a multicultural society. The model is being strained, however, by the number of schoolchildren who speak English as…
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Any type of automatic translation gives iffy results, but voice to text has an especially long way to go. In my language teaching career, I have been confronted with software that is supposed to measure the correction of students’ accents and int…
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Basically, regulatory translation is where legal, technical and medical translations meet.Logically, you might think the term “regulatory translation” refers to translating rules and regulations. In fact, the expression is more closely lin…
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Language influences culture, and culture influences language. Language and culture are inextricably linked. When you think about it, the way a term is used can create a whole new mindset. For example, the term “geek” used to be an insult …
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We most often associate technology with translation and localization. But the world of interpreting is impacted by technological change as well.The second North American Summit on Interpreting, which will be held this weekend in Washington, D.C., will …
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English-speaking countries need to get up to snuff on foreign language study, but funding isn’t following.In a global economy, even if English is the predominant language of business, mastery of other languages is an important communication skill. T…
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