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Jun 18, 2022 • 3min

$7 million in grants allocated to Native American languages

Earlier this week, 45 Native American tribes and tribal organizations received $7 million in funding for Indigenous language preservation efforts.
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Jun 17, 2022 • 3min

Rhode Island Superior Court rules to enhance education for English learners

A Rhode Island judge ruled in favor of English-language learners earlier this month in a case that questioned whether or not the state’s education system was providing them with adequate support.
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Jun 16, 2022 • 4min

Mistranslated advertising hinders campaign for San Francisco’s Proposition A

A botched translation of promotional material could have cost the election for supporters of San Francisco’s Proposition A.
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Jun 14, 2022 • 4min

Study says interpreters can bridge gap between doctors and LEP parents

A study recently published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that parents who have limited English proficiency (LEP) are less likely to feel comfortable asking doctors and other hospital personnel follow-up questions about their child’s care or treatment.
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Jun 13, 2022 • 3min

Sonoma County corrects erroneous translation of voter guide

Earlier this month, Sonoma County’s Registrar of Voters Office noted that a Spanish translation of the county’s voter information guide included three factual errors.
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Jun 10, 2022 • 5min

Language advocacy groups outraged over airline’s Afrikaans language test

Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline by number of passengers, has come under a wave of criticism after forcing UK-bound travelers flying with a South African passport to prove their nationality by taking a test in Afrikaans.
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Jun 9, 2022 • 3min

Can images be used to enhance machine translation output?

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), and IBM have developed a machine learning model that just might shake things up in the field of machine translation (MT): VALHALLA.
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Jun 7, 2022 • 3min

Hearing-related injuries cause interpreter shortage in Canada

Unlike other instances of interpreter shortages that have been reported in recent months, this one has not yet been linked to low pay rates.
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Jun 6, 2022 • 4min

RRR an international hit for Indian cinema with dozens of dubs planned

Indian cinema is taking the world by storm this year with the success of RRR, a big-budget Tollywood action epic set in the Britain-controlled India of the early 20th century.
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Jun 3, 2022 • 3min

Lionbridge and Le Monde partner up to offer English news service

Lionbridge announced earlier this week its partnership with Le Monde, a widely read newspaper based in Paris, to launch the newspaper’s English-language version.

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