US Spanish-language broadcasters began adding English subtitles as second and third generation Latino viewers, especially teenagers, showed a clear preference for English.
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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.
The NYCLU says riders who speak little English are denied interpreters in transit court, a due-process failure that quietly decides cases before they are argued.
Iran’s president told the UN there was no translation. The two-minute silence in the headphones exposed how fragile simultaneous interpretation really is.
A column of numbers found under adobe rubble near Trujillo records a Peruvian language that has been extinct for centuries. One page against a very long silence.
Castro spoke for four hours, Gaddafi for 96 minutes and his interpreter broke down. Inside the booths where UN speeches are turned into six languages, live.
A Pennsylvania county paid $5,500 for court interpreters in a year and is asking whether it was necessary. The breakdown answers the question better than the headline.
A bill granting Russian and other tongues regional status has split Ukraine’s parliament. The fight is not about grammar. It is about which way the country faces.
Two handwritten pages cut from Chamber of Secrets go on show in a Galloway bookshop. Rowling gave them to fund a Scots dictionary, which is the better story.
The world loses about 25 languages a year. At a conference in Carmarthen, 100 academics argued in nine languages about whether any of them can be saved.
Asian language translation revenue hit $1,312 million in 2008 and was projected to reach $1,516 million, with southern India's factories driving a hiring surge.
A Wakefield Research survey found 58 percent of Americans fear foreign workers will take high-paying U.S. jobs because the country cannot speak other languages.
A whistleblower at Mission Essential Personnel says unqualified interpreters were sent into Afghan combat zones, and ABC News footage shows one of them inventing dialogue.
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.