400 official interpreters in Sussex are leading a campaign against income...
(1888PressRelease) Interpreters hourly pay rate has been cut by up to 50% resulting in campaigning from those who act as translators for a number of public bodies.The Association of Community...
View ArticleEastern Iowa translation services help companies do business overseas
Anyone who has used an online translator knows it can be fun. Type in “How is the stock market doing?” and with the click of a button you’ll instantly get “Comment la bourse fait-elle?” in French or...
View ArticleThe Art of Copy Editing | ATVN
During my first few weeks as graphics producer, I did not realize how many online stories the web department churned out each day and at first was overwhelmed and felt like my fingers couldn't type...
View ArticleLos secretos de traducir al chino, o dominar el arte de perder
Los traductores chinos buscan atrapar el significado, ya sea inventando no palabras nuevas sino directamente ideogramas nuevos o respondiendo a los juegos de palabras del original con juegos de...
View ArticleLanguage Magazine » Into Africa
As interest in study abroad to non-traditional destinations continues to rise, so does the number of students interested in African languages and cultures. Despite the fact that there are somewhere...
View ArticleFunny Translation Mistakes in a Bilingual Household
by Valeria Veneri The story of my family has always amazed people: my parents were born in Italy, moved to Michigan with their families when they were teenagers, met, got married and moved back to...
View ArticleRadio World: FCC Upholds $4,000 Fine for FM Translator Interference
Radio World Commission says a translator for Playa Del Sol Broadcasters interfered with county sheriff’s aviation communicationsSee it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The Translation World
View ArticleGoogle Glass: is it a threat to our privacy?
The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now being tested by volunteers, meaning you might already have been surreptitiously filmed and uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award 2013 Fiction Longlist Announced : Publishing...
The fiction longlist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards, organized by Open Letter Books, includes 23 books from 15 publishers, representing 19 countries and 13 languages.See it on Scoop.it, via...
View ArticleYale awards nine writers its inaugural Windham Campbell Literature Prizes -...
Yale University announced the inaugural set of winners of its Windham Campbell Literature Prizes Monday morning at a press conference in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the...
View ArticleWhat is grammar anyway?
GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the...See it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia:...
View ArticleWhy You Can't Fight Search-Engine Results
Searchers ultimately control what a search phrase “means” and what types of content are relevant for a search query. A business selling furniture pads might be 100 percent certain that they sell...See...
View ArticleThe Big Business of Wycliffe Bible Translation and Why They Might Lose Money...
Bible Translation is big business and if you stop to look at their tax forms, the results might surprise you. The business of selling Christianity (See it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The Translation...
View ArticleAfrican literacy project is no joke for Ker family
What’s black and white and red all over? A book, a newspaper and a zebra with a sunburn.This is the joke that inspired the name for The Red Zebra Project.“We like to think of Red Zebra as an...
View ArticleTranslation for the virgin poet: Ingrid Jonker
Recently it occurred to me that translation is a good exercise for the young poet. Find poetry you like and submit yourself to the rigours of putting the words into another language.See it on...
View ArticleDictionnaire de psychologie et psychopathologie des religions
Dictionnaire de psychologie et psychopathologie des religions - Si les dictionnaires de toute sorte abondent en matière d’histoire des religions, il n’existait jusqu’à présent en langue française...
View ArticleTop Business Sectors for Translation Services
The top business sectors using translation services in 2012 according to Kwintessential, UK based translation company that tracks 31 different industries.See it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The...
View ArticleThe Art of Interpreting | EuroTalk Blog
Kana Tsumoto has just finished her internship with us, translating and recording our maths app into Japanese. In this post, she explains why she’s excited about her chosen career in interpreting.The...
View ArticleÉditeurs et auteurs pactisent sur le numérique
Sous l'égide du ministère de la Culture, un accord a été trouvé entre auteurs et éditeurs sur les droits numériques.See it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The Translation World
View ArticleMedical Interpreters Lower Health care Costs, Create Jobs
Boston-based nonprofit, Found in Translation, provides free Medical Interpreting training and support services to low-income bilingual women in the Boston area. Selected from 195 applicants...
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