How Joint Commission accreditation standards turned medical interpreting from a hospital courtesy into a reimbursement-linked patient-safety requirement.
Posts with tag.: English
More than 150 people applied to interpret the Geordie accent for foreign professionals in Newcastle, exposing a gap standard business English never covers.
Talisman Theatre stages English translations of new Quebec plays, forcing hard choices about jokes, religion and how much culture a translator should carry across.
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.
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.
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.
Discover why modern game localization drives global success, boosts player engagement, and increases revenue through cultural and linguistic adaptation.
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.
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.
Learn how to get certified English translations accepted first time, from choosing translators to notarization, apostille, formatting, and legal requirements.
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.
Film-maker Heather Quinlan is recording New York's disappearing accents in If These Knishes Could Talk, a documentary built on her grandfathers' voices.
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.
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.
Recyclopath, vegangelical, congreenient: ten green coinages from Urban Dictionary, what they reveal about environmentalism, and why translators dread them.