Tag: Ukraine
Looking at Duolingo’s end-of-year report on language learning trends
In addition to platform-wide trends, folks who used the app for more than five days out of the year can access personalized insights neatly packaged into a Spotify Wrapped-esque report.
Do we have enough (human) translators and interpreters to help vulnerable...
Refugee crises across the globe this year — from the European Union to Martha’s Vineyard — have highlighted the importance of maintaining a large, diverse workforce of human translators and interpreters.
War in Ukraine spurs decline in Russian-language use, survey shows
Just a few months before the war began, 26% of Ukrainians claimed to use Russian as their primary home language. This survey says that number's fallen to just 13%.
GALA urges continued support for Ukraine from localization community
The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) has released the results of a survey on support to Ukraine, conducted with 40 respondents of its community. This represents about 10% of the organizational members.
Translit helps Ukrainian refugees become trained community interpreters
In collaboration with the Clare Local Development Company (CLDC) and the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP), Translit has provided community interpreter training for 37 Ukrainian refugees who were previously providing informal language services to fellow Ukrainians in Ireland.
Microsoft adds Ukrainian to Reading Progress platform
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that its Reading Progress tool — a free platform that allows teachers to assess students’ reading progress — will include Ukrainian in its list of available languages.
Avant Assessment and Linguacious® Donate 1,500 Ukrainian Children’s Books to Ukrainian...
Avant Assessment and Linguacious® have partnered to help ensure that Ukrainian refugee children have access to good quality children’s literature in their native language
Tetyana Struk: LSP work during wartime
At the beginning of this month, Tetyana Struk sent her husband off to war with a heartbreaking post on social media. In between bomb alarms, she made time for us to tell us what it is like to manage a localization firm from war torn Ukraine.
UK language service professionals form Ukraine Language Support Task Force
In an effort to help Ukrainian refugees who settle in the United Kingdom, six associations for language professionals have come together to form the Ukraine Language Support Task Force.
HelpUkraineBot ready to answer questions on Latvia’s support to Ukraine
The Latvian artificial intelligence and language processing company Tilde has created a virtual assistant HelpUkraineBot, providing information on giving and receiving assistance to Ukrainian people in...
LocLunch Founder organizes global music festival to help Ukraine
Due to the urgency of the situation and increasing needs for funds, the concert is being quickly put together, with the webpage list of artists updating frequently as more join the cause.
Why we say “Kyiv” and not “Kiev”: The difficulty of translating...
Ukraine has become the center of the media’s attention in recent weeks, and while more people seem aware of the connotation of referring to it as “the Ukraine,” another question has popped up regarding the way we refer to Ukraine’s capital: Kyiv or Kiev?
