In the Name of the Fada

You might remember my griping about the Polish support folks in CWT not being able to handle the apostophe yet alone the accent on...

Who is the Language Industry's Chocolate Apple? Comics, Technology, and Culture

I've previously written about the uptake of the comic form in technical communications and some of the translation and cultural challenges. As part of Oracle's...

Weekly Shorts | March 12, 2021

University shares 500+ million sentences for MT Jörg Tiedemann, a professor of language technology for University of Helsinki, has shared more than 500 million translated...

A test of my patience

A typical day for a translator is...non-existent. Working as an internal translator at M21Global, I translate the jobs assigned to me, within my qualifications...

“Multilingual Expansion Plan” Crucial to eCommerce Success, Reports BLEND

BLEND, a Tel Aviv-based language service provider specializing in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered localization, recently conducted a report on the localization metrics the 50 top...

Native American Languages Receive Support at White House Summit

On Nov. 15, a group of United States government agencies launched a new initiative geared to protect and preserve Native American languages that have...

Aynu localization of OpenOffice

One of the more recent localization efforts for OpenOffice has been into Aynu. Or more traditionally, Ainu. Googling for this pre-Nihongo language in Japan...

New data on what CX customers want most

Language is the number one reason why customer service organizations can't maintain message consistency. That's one of the insights provided in machine translation provider...

ABC of Kulcha

Useful review article by a US academic working in Japan of some recent books on the cultural stereotyping of Asians. Main issues dealt with: Is...

On peut se tutoyer? The impossible task of conveying complex concepts...

With more foreign language content coming to popular streaming platforms like Netflix, the art of subtitle translation continues to be front and center. Have you also noticed how, sometimes, localization is an impossible task?

Why people are ignoring your marketing, and what you can do...

Do you feel like you put hours into your marketing efforts, but get very little return? Does the sight of marketing tasks on your...

Keywords Studios Sees Major Revenue Growth in H1 Report

Keywords Studios, a Dublin-based video game development company that provides localization services, recently released its half-year trading update, which shows a significant increase in...