Two thirds of Europeans can speak English and it is the first foreign language taught in every school system outside Britain and Ireland, a Eurostat survey found.
Moscow’s Library of Foreign Literature wants an Institute of Translation, a House of the Translator, to push Russian authors abroad through better foreign translations.
New York must replace 250,900 street signs at a cost of $27.6m because federal rules found all-caps lettering is slower to read and more dangerous at speed.
The University of Pune is compiling the first Pali-Sanskrit-Tibetan dictionary, closing a gap that has forced Buddhist scholars to work through two reference books at once.
US Spanish-language broadcasters began adding English subtitles as second and third generation Latino viewers, especially teenagers, showed a clear preference for English.
Google added Latin to Google Translate, announced it in a blog post written entirely in Latin, and predicted the results would be among its most accurate.
US demand for translators and interpreters kept climbing through the recession, with global spending on language services estimated at $26 billion a year.
The Royal Spanish Academy and YouTube staged the first global reading of Don Quixote online, with more than 2,100 Spanish speakers each recording a fragment.