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08/17/2019

Duolingo is a free app for your smartphone. In the few spare moments of your life, it allows you to learn another language with 1) vocabulary building 2) translation 3) listening and speaking using Siri/Genie voice recognition in the the language you are learning - showing which words you are pronouncing well, and which need improvement. Fun!

Learn languages by playing a game. It's 100% free, fun, and scientifically proven to work.

01/23/2019

The path of the interpreter is not always a smooth one.

Who's Marina Gross, the State Department interpreter who was the only other American with President Donald Trump during a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Putin?

03/31/2018

The battle for hearts and minds.....

The war to own the classroom has arrived. On Tuesday, Apple announced their newest line of education products at...

01/07/2018

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09/06/2017

07/09/2017

From a linguist's point of view...

Jennifer Sclafani, a linguist at Georgetown University, says President Trump is a “unique” politician because he doesn’t speak like one.

03/21/2017

I love movies where the heroine is a linguist!

Arrival is nominated for Best Picture for Oscars 2017. Get the latest updates, photos and videos for the 89th Academy Awards.

11/30/2016

I always enjoy stories about how little translation mistakes can turn into big problems. Here are 9 good ones.

Knowing how to speak two languages is not the same thing as knowing how to translate.

10/24/2016

Interesting (and somewhat scary) new direction for linguistic research.

Lisa Spira is director of research and product development at Ethnic Technologies, which determines ethnic origins of prospective customers.

01/20/2016

Link to the ASTM Standard Guide for Quality Assurance in Translation

F2575 - 14 Standard Guide for Quality Assurance in Translation , bilingual, globalization, glossary, internationalization, interpretation, interpreting, language proficiency, language translation, linguist, localization, metric, native speaker, quality assurance, quality control, service agreement,…

10/26/2014

Funny story on serious topic of fate of US wartime interpreters.

Translators who have aided the U.S. Military in Afghanistan and Iraq are in great danger in their home countries, but red tape is making it impossible for ma...