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.
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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.