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“Lockdown” has been declared the word of the year for 2020 by Collins Dictionary, after a sharp rise in its usage during the pandemic.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54878910
“AI is going to have as big an impact on our society as electricity,” according to Risto Siilasmaa, chairman of the board at Nokia.
Read more at: https://magazine.multilingual.com/previewissue/may-june-2020/how-ai-is-transforming-the-content-supply-chainand-your-job/
There are about 6,500 languages in the world today. It is a privilege to be part of the worldwide translation community, working to promote one of the greatest gifts of mankind – language communication!
One of the world’s most-translated books just added another language to its collection: “The Little Prince” is now out in Tsotsil, an indigenous language spoken by 400,000 people in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas.
Learn more at https://globalvoices.org/2018/11/28/the-little-prince-now-speaks-tsotsil/
Global Voices stories have replaced classic texts at the annual competition held in Prague
Learn more at:
https://globalvoices.org/2020/05/20/covid-19-themed-global-voices-story-stars-in-czech-translation-competition/#
“Linguistics is in everything, from astronomy to everyday life”, says linguist from Trinidad and Tobago Jo-Anne Ferreira
“Trinbagonians are connected through a shared linguocultural history and present — we don’t have to constantly define or explain or substitute our words in our conversations.”
Read her full interview at https://globalvoices.org/2020/03/13/linguistics-is-in-everything-from-astronomy-to-everyday-life-says-this-linguist-from-trinidad-tobago/
Medical interpreters must now work remotely, multiplying the challenges for front-line doctors and non-English-speaking patients.
Read more at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/health/covid-coronavirus-medical-translators.html
Learn how to translate and localize mobile applications and specialize as a mobile app translator.
Read more at https://www.udemy.com/course/mobile-app-localization-for-translators/
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