Michael Reid
Michael Reid, former managing editor at MultiLingual Media, is an educator, translator, and language, culture, and diversity consultant who lives in Athens, Greece. He speaks six languages fluently and another seven to basic competence. He also speaks just enough Klingon to negotiate safe passage through the Neutral Zone.
Emergency services dispatcher hung up on Spanish-speaking caller in fatal fire, lawsuit alleges
Lehigh County, in the eastern US state of Pennsylvania, is the subject of a lawsuit filed in federal court on October 20 alleging, among...
Facebook goes “meta,” internet has a field day
Meanwhile, Portuguese-speaking internet users got to have a laugh over the fact that “meta” is the imperative form of a verb with the colloquial meaning “to have intercourse.”
Facebook linguistic gaps allow hate speech to spread, don’t match demographic realities
Social media giant Facebook is under the microscope yet again recently for purportedly prioritizing growth and profit over the safety of users and marginalized...
Oregon law seeks to ensure language access in health care, opponents worry about side effects
Among the slate of legislation passed by the Oregon House of Representatives in 2021, one bill has stood out for those in the language...
Cresceri and Birsan elected president and vice-president of European Language Industry Association
The European Language Industry Association (ELIA), a European not-for-profit trade association for the language industry, announced the selection of its new president and vice-president...
Squid Game smashes barriers and records, highlights importance of translation
Squid Game, the blood-spattered, dystopian South Korean critique of modern capitalism from Netflix, is set to become the streaming platform's most watched series in...
Helsinki Mayor Wants to Declare City an English-Speaking Area
The mayor of Helsinki, Finland attracted no small amount of controversy recently with a suggestion from the city’s mayor that the capital rebrand itself...
Private equity partnership hints at larger industry trends
On August 4 Joshua Gould, CEO of Leeds, UK-based thebigword, spoke exclusively to MultiLingual Media about their partnership with US-based private equity group Susquehanna...
TikTok penalized for failing to properly localize terms and conditions in Dutch
TikTok, the short-form video app that has seen a dramatic, if not entirely uncontroversial, rise in popularity since its release in 2016, was hit...
A MultiLingual timeline of life sciences localization in the 21st century
2020 was, without a doubt, a marquee year in almost every way possible, not least in terms of the interplay between language and the life sciences.
While certain issues were novel, others were perennial; and while certain were unexpected, certain had been predicted years prior in the pages of this very magazine. Join me as we look back on 16 years of MultiLingual and examine the topics of the time, and the relevance they still have today.
Argos Multilingual Acquires Chillistore
Argos Multilingual announced today that it acquired Dublin-based Chillistore, a company that specializes in language quality assurance (LQA) and inclusive localization, in January 2021.
“Chillistore...
Mondia Technologies announces new CEO – Steve Higgins
1st July 2021 - Mondia Technologies Group announced the appointment of Steve Higgins to the position of CEO. Mondia is the parent company of...
Plus ça change…
COVID-19 has upended much of life as we know it and, though halting progress toward the fabled “new normal” is being made in the...
Marvel Cinematic Universe starts to look more like our own
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 4 teaser trailer dropped on Monday and, along with a hefty dose of nostalgia for Phases 1-3, delivered...
A Tale of Two Tourisms
Translation is a booming field, but for smaller economies that rely on tourism, the drive to use English as a lingua franca can mean leaving other languages off the menu.
There are few industries that weren’t shaken to their cores when the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world in 2020.
Conversations with Character(s)
Of the world’s approximately 7,000 languages, around 4,000 are written. Though many of us, certainly those of us from secure linguistic communities, take the...
KUDO closes $21 million in an oversubscribed series A funding round
KUDO, Inc., creator of the eponymous cloud-based video conferencing platform that incorporates real-time multilingual interpretation supporting over 100 spoken languages and 147 signed languages,...
What makes a language foreign?
Minari, a film by Korean-American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung, won the award for best foreign language film at the Golden Globe awards on Sunday,...
Happy New Year!
February 12th marked the beginning of Lunar New Year, the first new moon of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, kicking off a celebration marked by...
It’s All Greek to Us!
It may have passed unremarked by many, but February 9th was International Greek Language Day, a day to celebrate the language that has contributed...
Linguistic Blackout
As anyone following the news from the United States is no doubt aware, the past few months have seen the United States engulfed in a long-overdue reckoning with both its racial past and present.