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Nov 18, 2022 • 4min
Canadian interpreter’s workplace injury highlights on-the-job health risks
The government of Canada is currently investigating the conditions that led to a particularly bad case of acoustic shock in an interpreter working on Parliament Hill last month.
Nov 18, 2022 • 3min
Zoom adds sign language interpretation feature
Zoom announced earlier this month that it’s added a new feature to make its video communication platform more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing users: a specialized view for sign language interpreting.
Nov 18, 2022 • 4min
UNM launches research center to support acquisition of Diné and other Indigenous languages
To promote language revitalization efforts among Native American communities and better understand the role children can play in such projects, the University of New Mexico (UNM) announced Tuesday that it’s launched the Indigenous Child Language Research Center.
Nov 9, 2022 • 5min
Humans still beat machines when it comes to literary translation
You wouldn’t use Google Translate to churn out an English-language (or any language, for that matter) version of a novel like Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad — or would you?
Nov 7, 2022 • 4min
Listenbourg: The fictional country that baffled and entertained Twitter
Have you ever considered the value of localizing for the Listenbourg market? According to Twitter, it’s a beautiful, upwardly mobile region of western Europe that should be attractive for any brand seeking aggressive expansion.
Nov 7, 2022 • 4min
Tarjimly receives a big boost from Boeing
Boeing announced Thursday that it has formed a partnership with Tarjimly — an app that allows refugees to access free language services — to help the app expand its reach.
Nov 7, 2022 • 4min
California makes progress on dual-language immersion goals
Demand for dual-language immersion programs has been steadily increasing in the United States. The state of California just made a $10 million investment toward meeting that demand.
Nov 2, 2022 • 4min
Straker reports strong growth in quarterly report
Straker Translations reported on Friday that it has earned $33 million NZD (19.37 million USD) in revenue during the first half of Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) — a 42% increase from the same period just one year before.
Nov 1, 2022 • 4min
GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 on interpreting
This post, originally posted by Claudio Fantinuoli of KUDO, was written entirely by the GPT-3 AI without any editing.
Nov 1, 2022 • 9min
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world
In their book The Language Game, linguists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater propose a series of novel concepts about the nature of language and how it’s developed. In his review of the book for MultiLingual Magazine, Stefan Huyghe wholeheartedly recommends the book to language lovers looking to learn a bit more about how we acquire our first languages.
