Brussels expanded its European Master's in Translation network to fix a shortage of qualified translators, turning 34 university courses into a quality label.
Beijing landlords near the universities are paying well for translators after losing tenants to language barriers, with one student earning 2,000 yuan on two rentals.
Humpty Dumpty in English, Indonesian, Russian and Turkish shows what each grammar forces speakers to decide, and what the new research on linguistic relativity found.
Over half of Google searches are now non-English. UK firms competing only for English keywords are paying premium prices for the most crowded market on the web.
Twelve EU states move to create a unitary patent through enhanced cooperation, granting in English, French or German and breaking a decade-long deadlock over language.
Scopri perché la localizzazione dei contenuti tecnici, oltre la semplice traduzione, è strategica per fiducia, sicurezza, conformità e successo globale.
Translating English is a complex task that requires expertise, cultural understanding, and attention to detail.
Belarus's 2009 census found those calling Belarusian their native language fell from almost 74 percent to 53 percent, with only 23 percent speaking it at home.
The Association of Spanish Language Academies says Spanish will lead the world in native speakers by 2050. Here is what drives the forecast and what it changes.
Georgia imported a thousand native English speakers to put one in every school, aiming to displace Russian as the second language. What worked, and what did not.
Ellen Jovin gave herself three months per language and 13 languages in three years, building a method out of deli shifts, tapes and refusing to wait for fluency.
Russia is founding an Institute of Translation for literature, a grant-giving body rather than a school, after officials admitted translators had been left without state support.
Translating comprehensive guides and resources in Germany is a critical task for businesses, organizations, and individuals who want to reach a German-speaking audience
Google Docs now translates documents in 53 languages from inside the editor, but the output is plain Google Translate. Here is where that works and where it fails.
Oxford picked 'big society' as Word of 2010 over vuvuzela and Boris bike. The shortlist is a case study in how English coins, blends and borrows new words.
Whitehall and the justice system spent 140 million pounds on translation last year, up 40 per cent in two years despite a cost-cutting drive, reigniting the language test row.
An EU directive makes interpretation and translation compulsory in criminal proceedings, turning a fair-trial principle into a budget line member states must fund.
A Universitat Jaume I imaging study finds bilinguals route attention tasks through Broca's area while monolinguals use the right hemisphere, and respond faster.
When it comes to translating either dialogue or the written word from
Ontario had one accredited Arabic court interpreter, so the Crown asked to sever a murder trial. A tougher accreditation test shrank the workforce instead of improving it.