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Meta Adds Sign Language Interpreters for Portal Video Calls
META (formerly Facebook) now offers video relay services (VRS) on its Portal video calling devices, allowing users to bring English or Spanish American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters into video conversations.…
New Study Suggests Languages Could Go Extinct at a Rate of One Per Month this Century
Based on a new model similar to those used for predicting species loss, a team of biologists, mathematicians, and linguists in Australia has determined that, without effective conservation, language loss…
More Than 60,000 Interpreters, Visa Applicants Remain in Afghanistan
According to the U.S. Department of State, more than 60,000 Afghan interpreters and others who have applied for visas to seek shelter in the U.S. after working alongside American forces…
New York City Expands Translation of Special Education Plans, but Parents with Limited English Must Request It
New York City officials said a citywide program to centrally translate students鈥 individualized education programs (IEPs) will become permanent. IEPs outline a student鈥檚 individual goals and the services they鈥檙e entitled…
European Union Young Translators Contest Kicks Off
Secondary schools in all European Union (EU) countries can now start enrolling for Juvenes Translatores, the European Commission鈥檚 annual translation contest. Participants can translate between any two of the EU鈥檚…
How Language Classes Are Moving Past the Gender Binary
Languages that contain only 鈥渉e鈥 and 鈥渟he鈥 pronouns pose problems for communicating about gender identity. Here鈥檚 how some language teachers are helping. Tal Janner-Klausner teaches Hebrew. The language presents a…
Leicestershire Police Clamping Down on Interpreter Fraud
The chief of police in Leicestershire, England, warned that people trying to pass themselves off as interpreters 鈥渨ill be dealt with.鈥 Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police Simon Cole issued the…
Third Circuit Court Says Speakers of English Dialects Have Right to Interpreter
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that immigration judges must ascertain whether those facing deportation who speak English dialects also understand American English or require interpreters. The…
After Interpreter Issues, Three Guant谩namo Detainees Charged in 2002 Bali Bombings
Following a one-day delay due to issues with one of the court interpreters, three men who had been detained by the U.S. for 18 years were formally accused of war…
White House Chief of Staff Commits to Evacuating Afghan Interpreter Who Helped Rescue Biden in 2008
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain committed to evacuate from Afghanistan the Afghan interpreter who helped rescue then-Senator Joe Biden and two other senators from a snowstorm in 2008.…
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