Our first new blog category deals with the main activities of language service providers: translation, localization and interpretation.We’ve just completed restructuring our blogs to better reflect what we do and what we write about. Language Tra…

Helping with media coverage is all in a day’s work for baseball interpreters.English is a second language for a number of major league baseball players. So naturally, interpreters have come to play an important role in helping players with limited En…

The simplest form of communication when travelling in foreign countries may be a picture book.Summer is travel time, and trips to far-away locales are increasingly frequent. For many Americans, “going abroad” used to mean a trip to Mexico o…

The simplest form of communication when travelling in foreign countries may be a picture book.Summer is travel time, and trips to far-away locales are increasingly frequent. For many Americans, “going abroad” used to mean a trip to Mexico o…

How can hospitals make sure doctors from foreign countries have necessary language skills?Beyond interpretation and foreign language skills, there is another language-related issue of crucial importance in medical settings: making sure that doctors and…

A new study shows which countries are most influenced by digital content and identifies other digital media trends.According to a study released in June by Fleishman-Hillard International Communications in conjunction with Harris Interactive, the Inter…

From old-fashioned phrasebooks to talking devices, a number of tools are available to help travelers navigate linguistically abroad.Language translation applications are widely available for smart phones, but other, separate tools exist, from phraseboo…

Edited by two Michigan universities, the Linguist List provides an astounding array of resources for linguists.Even after writing this blog for over four years, I am always discovering amazing online resources – and they aren’t always new, …

An online debate sponsored by The Economist magazine has brought up this thorny question. So far, participants are answering with a resounding “no.”Just about everything can take place online, including old-fashioned Oxford-style debates. The subje…

This language interpreting system uses new technology to better serve patients.At the University of Irvine, certified language interpreters can now work from a single location, carrying out their job through remote video. Their presence is rolled into …