Brazil's events boom and inbound investment pushed demand for translators and interpreters upward, opening a market young professionals had written off.
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The Commission's Directorate-General for Translation opened a public platform to collect hard data on an industry that had never properly counted itself.
Executive departments spent almost £200,000 translating documents into Irish and Ulster Scots. The row that followed was never really about the money.
Long Beach cut the Spanish simulcast of council meetings, then told housing advocates the promised interpreters were not available either.
A list of seven languages hanging on by a thread is entertaining, but the real predictors of language death are duller and far more reliable than speaker counts.
Google's Mustafa Icil described two systems, speech-to-text and text translation, and the plan to bolt them together into live spoken translation.
How Joint Commission accreditation standards turned medical interpreting from a hospital courtesy into a reimbursement-linked patient-safety requirement.
More than 150 people applied to interpret the Geordie accent for foreign professionals in Newcastle, exposing a gap standard business English never covers.
RIKEN researchers found Japanese infants stop hearing foreign sound sequences by 14 months, tuning their ears to native rules before learning words or grammar.
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.
Around 100 protesters gathered near Ukraine's parliament against a language law expanding Russian, arguing bilingualism in law means Ukrainian retreat in practice.
Linguists in Arunachal Pradesh set out to record an Aka dialect and found Koro instead, a distinct language with about 1,000 speakers and no written record.
Argentina used its Frankfurt Book Fair guest slot to build SUR, a subsidy fund that paid for 300 translations in 14 months and outlived the fair itself.
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.
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.