Jonathan Pyner
Jonathan Pyner is a poet, freelance writer, and translator. He has worked as an educator for nearly a decade in the US and Taiwan, and he recently completed a master’s of fine arts in creative writing.
Literary Translation and the Art of Capturing Nuance
In our interview with Lisa Dillman, one of this year’s National Book Award Finalists in Literary Translation, she shared valuable insights about translating works...
Insights from Translation Studies Scholar Sherry Simon
If one looks closely enough, a city reveals in every brick, window, and street sign a complex history and continuing tensions through its translational...
Chinese Project Promotes Local Dialects, but in What Capacity?
Surveying a wide swath of regions, Chinese officials aim to preserve and promote local dialects. The country’s human rights record, however, stands at odds...
Emsi Language Services Industry Overview Projects Growth
An exclusive Emsi report outlines several variables around the language services industry, including salary, job growth, job training, and demographic breakdown.
Emsi, a data modeling...
Iowa Translators Persist Despite English-Only Voting Laws
As the 2020 election approaches, translators in Iowa are working against prohibitive laws to translate and distribute informational materials to multilingual communities across the...
Telehealth Firm Amwell to Adopt Google AI, Translation Tech
Promising advances to the telehealth services industry, Amwell will integrate Google Cloud AI capabilities for natural language processing and medical transcription services, among other...
Beowulf Translated with a 2020-Style Makeover
Following her 2018 novelized retelling of the epic poem, Maria Dahvana Headley has written a new translation of Beowulf that adopts a contemporary vernacular...
Gallaudet University Partners with Apple and AppTek
In a moment when universities need the latest technology more than ever, Gallaudet University has announced two important partnerships with Apple and AppTek, which...
Chinese-Language Curriculum Designated As Diplomatic Mission
In a rebuke from American officials, a Chinese-language education group will now be designated as a diplomatic mission. The new measures follow years of...
Geological Sciences in Cape Town to Translate Terms
A project at the University of Cape Town has begun to translate geological terms into the country’s official languages. The team hopes future scientific...
EIA Notification in India Excludes Most Official Languages
The Indian Government’s release of 2020's Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) notification has been met with resistance. Many groups, including the Supreme Court, have called...
Speech Recognition Tech Startup Voiceitt Raises $10 Million
The latest round of funding will help the company continue to improve upon its speech recognition software and bring greater access to communication for...
OpenAI Creates New Language-Generating AI
In its latest development of language-generating AI, OpenAI has created GPT-3, its most massive language model to date. The AI represents some of the...
Paper Mario’s Controversial Translation
Nintendo’s Paper Mario video game localization team has sparked a dispute about how it translated sensitive language from Japanese to Traditional Chinese.
Even without the...
Chinese Translation of Communist Manifesto Unearthed
A Shanghai library discovered a first edition copy of the Chinese translation of The Communist Manifesto, a book of continuing influence in the People’s Republic...
The Brothers Karamazov’s New Persian Translation
Constantly struggling for contemporary relevance, translations of The Brothers Karamazov spark plenty of controversy among critics. Translator Asghar Rastegar publishes the latest Persian edition.
Celebrated...
Game Localization Editor Discusses Voice Recording in Quarantine
PlayStation spoke recently with game localization editor Allie Doyon about her voice acting work on the localization team for the upcoming English release of...
Project Underwear Q&A in Upcoming Webinar
How do people engage with and consume content online? Featured next week as a guest in a Lingoport webinar on language’s impact on online...
NBA, Microsoft May Alter Global Sports Consumption
Marketing games for international venues, celebrating the Lunar New Year with Chinese characters on jerseys, or recruiting a global class of players, the National...
Your favorite language learning app, now possibly offshore
As industries adapt their operations to survive the pandemic, the technology sector’s capacity for remote work has earned many companies a unique position of...