For Americans, it’s quite convenient to have English as the world’s global trade language. But is it really fair?All over the world, people study English for many reasons: business, academics, and travel, to name a few. English-speakers, of course…
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In 2005, dozens of US language experts got together and set up an excellent website about languages: The 5-Minute LinguistSix years ago, the US Senate agreed on something, and declared 2005 "The Year of Foreign Language Study." The conc…
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In 2005, dozens of US language experts got together and set up an excellent website about languages: The 5-Minute LinguistSix years ago, the US Senate agreed on something, and declared 2005 "The Year of Foreign Language Study." The conc…
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A computer scientist is studying ways to express emotions in automated translations of Urdu.You may not know much about Urdu, but it is spoken by around 65 million people, mainly in India and Pakistan. It is quite similar to Hindi, and the two tongues …
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Medical school students take a humorous look at medical interpreting.Doc Opera is a variety show created by students from the Case School of Medicine. All of the performances are carried out by the medical students and deal with “the amusing sid…
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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…
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Many languages have carried out, or attempted, spelling reforms, but enforcement can prove difficult.Although it hasn’t gotten a lot of English-speaking press, Spanish has undergone a spelling reform as of 2011. Created by the Real Academia Espa&…
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The state’s Office of Multicultural Health & Services has awarded a grant for the development of certification exams in five languagesThe National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters, which launched the first national certification exam i…
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What’s in store for the language service sector in 2011? Research group Common Sense Advisory has some ideas.Since 2005, the major research group Common Sense Advisory has been publishing predictions about the language service industry. The group&rsq…
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Last week, Google added automatic translation of Latin to its translation platform. What’s in it for them? It truly warms the heart to think that Latin students will now have equal access to machine translation along with their Spanish-studying coun…
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