A presidential word contest drew 2,123 proposals from 593 Estonians; the winner, taristu, replaces the borrowed infrastruktuur and enters the dictionary as a real Estonian word.
Posts with tag.: English
Iran’s ICRO has been handed a state mandate to translate Islamic and humanities books into world languages. Selecting the right titles is the hard part.
Georgia placed a thousand native English speakers in its schools to displace Russian as the second language. A decade on, here is what survived and what did not.
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.
Only seven Chinese titles made it into the 348 translated books published in the US last year. The bottleneck is not talent, it is the translation pipeline.
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.
Recyclopath, vegangelical, congreenient: ten green coinages from Urban Dictionary, what they reveal about environmentalism, and why translators dread them.
USP proposed prescription labels in plain language, larger type and the patient's preferred language. The 'once' problem shows why a bad translation is worse than none.
Rhode Island cut its Southeast Asian and Portuguese interpreters, then spent years fixing it. Language access is cheap compared with what happens without it.
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.
Rio state has put eight linguists on a public phone line to answer questions on accents, syntax and agreement. The anxiety behind the service is the real story.
Haryana Agricultural University will require overseas students to study Hindi. In India, a language mandate is never just an educational decision.
Arabic web users grew 2,000% and Chinese is overtaking English online. How Google Translate and human projects like Meedan are keeping the web readable.
Discover 5 hidden signs your business needs professional translation services to avoid costly mistakes, protect your brand, and boost global growth.
Discover why modern game localization drives global success, boosts player engagement, and increases revenue through cultural and linguistic adaptation.
Learn how to get certified English translations accepted first time, from choosing translators to notarization, apostille, formatting, and legal requirements.
Vietnam’s growth is reshaping demand for Vietnamese translation services, and the agencies still using diaspora reviewers are quietly losing the market.
From Roman Dacia to Church Slavonic, Soviet Cyrillic and the 2023 law that renamed it Romanian, the Moldovan language has always been an argument about politics.
Lawmakers want every chain pharmacy in New York State to translate prescription labels, extending a 2009 city law after research found most pharmacists rarely translate at all.
Long Beach cut the Spanish simulcast of council meetings, then told housing advocates the promised interpreters were not available either.
Vengerian is the Slavic name for Hungarian, a Uralic outlier with 18 cases, vowel harmony and a focus position that machine translation still cannot handle.
New Joint Commission standards force hospitals to provide interpreting, turning a chronically under-supplied role into one of the fastest growing jobs in American healthcare.
English translations turned Tamil and Hindi pulp fiction into respectable reading, and a $2.9 billion Indian publishing market is riding the change.
Spanish has 500 million native speakers across 20 countries and no neutral default, which is why dialect, register and the subjunctive decide every translation.
Oregon endorses the national CMI credential and funds oral exams in five more languages, giving hospitals a single standard for judging whether an interpreter is competent.
David Crystal says the web did not accelerate language change so much as expose it, and the texting panic collapses once you count the words.
Fifteen cases, consonant gradation, no articles and a verb that conjugates to say no: why Finnish grammar defeats both learners and machine translation.
Farideh Mahdavi-Damghani, the award-winning Iranian translator, visited Korea and found almost no Korean literature available in Persian, and set out to change that.
How Joint Commission accreditation standards turned medical interpreting from a hospital courtesy into a reimbursement-linked patient-safety requirement.
Washington's proposed 2 million dollar cut would end Medicaid interpreter subsidies for 70,000 residents, shifting risk and cost onto clinics and patients.
The OED holds millions of coined words that never caught on, from furgle to wibble, and the reason they failed has nothing to do with quality.
The Assembly Government is expanding its Welsh translation unit and upgrading posts while the rest of the public sector shrinks, drawing fire from taxpayer campaigners.
Shanzhai and fangnu made it into the new Oxford Chinese-English dictionary. Two entries, 670,000 words, and a quiet record of what China has been worrying about.
More than 150 people applied to interpret the Geordie accent for foreign professionals in Newcastle, exposing a gap standard business English never covers.
Russian translation fails when it is treated as word substitution. Cases, aspect, register and culture decide whether the result reads as native or as machine output.
Talisman Theatre stages English translations of new Quebec plays, forcing hard choices about jokes, religion and how much culture a translator should carry across.
Pizza Hut became happy canteen and Bing sounds like sickness: why western brands entering China treat naming as transcreation, not translation.
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.
Translating English is a complex task that requires expertise, cultural understanding, and attention to detail.
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.
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.
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.
Quebec is replacing the struck-down Bill 104 with a points-based test that asks parents to prove their child's English schooling would be an authentic education.
Emergency patients given a professional interpreter were four times as likely to report satisfaction, and the Annals of Emergency Medicine study points to safety gains too.
Film-maker Heather Quinlan is recording New York's disappearing accents in If These Knishes Could Talk, a documentary built on her grandfathers' voices.