Tag: English language
The Week in Review: Highlights from the Language Industry, June 16–20
This week’s multilingual industry news includes FCC alert delays, AI translation updates, Quran law in Turkey, and ALCA’s new awards.
US Multilingual Emergency Alerts on Hold Amid Regulatory Delay
The FCC approved multilingual emergency alerts in early 2025, but implementation is on hold due to a regulatory delay, pending official publication.
5 Movies About Translation: Where Language Meets Drama, Intrigue, and Humanity
Dive into five unforgettable films—from Arrival to The Interpreter—that prove translation isn’t just words but the thread connecting us through drama, intrigue, and humanity.
Make English Great Again? Trump’s Foreign Film Tariff Raises Concerns in the Language Industry
Trump’s 100% film tariff risks isolating English, hindering multilingual storytelling and constraining America’s cultural exchange.
The Sarah Maguire Prize Recognizes Georgian Poetry in Translation
On the Contrary by Georgian poet Lia Sturua, translated by Natalia Bukia-Peters and Victoria Field, received the cash prize of £3,000 to be shared equally between the poet and translators, highlighting translation as a creative process.
Differences between US and UK English that language professionals should know
The different dialects of English present an interesting challenge for professionals working in language services. We’ve selected three key areas in which US and UK English — two particularly prominent dialects of the language — differ.
VKontakte Sets Sights on English-speaking Audience, Launches NMT
VKontakte, a popular social media network in Russia and other Russian-speaking regions, has recently launched its own neural machine translation (NMT) model for translating...
Correct Youse of English: Your Personal Dialect Map Is Here
Thought I was done with regional English? No chance.
The Irish Times recently predicted that the phrase “you guys” will soon be accepted as the...