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Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles Adding Five Languages, Including ASL, to the Written Test
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) announced the addition of five new languages, including American Sign Language (ASL), to the written portion of the state driver鈥檚 license exam. The…
St. Louis Metro Partners with St. Louis Mosaic Project for COVID-19 Language Access Initiative
In Missouri, St. Louis Metro Transit has partnered with the St. Louis Mosaic Project to help ensure that non-English-speaking riders throughout the area have access to important COVID-19 information on…
Translations of Amanda Gorman鈥檚 Inaugural Poem Spark Debate: Can White Translators Interpret It?
Millions of Americans heard 23-year-old Amanda Gorman recite her moving poem The Hill We Climb at President Biden鈥檚 inauguration on January 20. The poem has now been translated into 17…
Translator Pleads Guilty to Sharing Military Secrets
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a former U.S. military translator has pleaded guilty to divulging classified information to a Lebanese official with suspected ties to the Hezbollah, a…
鈥楽pecial and Beautiful鈥 Whistled Language Echoes Around This Island
On La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands in Spain, a whistling language is still in use thanks to mandatory classes for schoolchildren. The language, officially known as Silbo Gomero,…
Minnesota Governor Proclaims Day in Honor of His ASL Interpreter
Governor Tim Walz proclaimed March 9 as 鈥淣ic Zapko Day鈥 in honor of the American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter who has appeared at nearly all of the governor鈥檚 in-person press…
Mindestabstandsregelung: That鈥檚 6 Feet Apart to You
In a language known for its tongue-twisting words, Germans have coined over 1,200 terms to describe the rules and realities of the pandemic. They鈥檙e not alone, of course. Over the…
U.S. Department of Justice Says South Carolina School District Must Provide Language Access for Limited-English-Proficient Parents
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has settled an investigation over complaints that the Charleston County School District of South Carolina did not provide adequate language assistance to…
Dutch and Catalan Translators of Amanda Gorman鈥檚 Work Withdraw after Uproar that Black Translators Weren鈥檛 Chosen
Two translators who were commissioned by different publishers to translate The Hill We Climb, the poem American writer Amanda Gorman read at President Joe Biden鈥檚 inauguration, have withdrawn following controversy…
Researchers Claim that AI-Translated Text Are Less 鈥淟exically鈥 Rich than Human Translations
In a new study, researchers from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the University of Maryland attempt to quantify the lexical and grammatical diversity of 鈥渕achine translationese鈥 (i.e., the fingerprints…
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