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.
Posts with tag.: official language
Spain's Senate admitted Catalan, Basque and Galician with simultaneous interpretation. Congress refused. The row was never about headphones or the cost of booths.
Iran’s president told the UN there was no translation. The two-minute silence in the headphones exposed how fragile simultaneous interpretation really is.
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 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.
India has chased UN status for Hindi since 2003, but the cost, the two-thirds majority and its own southern states all stand in the way.
Around 100 protesters gathered near Ukraine's parliament against a language law expanding Russian, arguing bilingualism in law means Ukrainian retreat in practice.
Senate Bill 2639 would force foreign-language signs in the Philippines to carry a Filipino or English translation. Mandating a translation is not the same as mandating a good one.