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terça-feira, 3 de julho de 2012
Lack of translator stalls arraignment of Taiwanese fraud suspects
MANILA, Philippines - The arraignment of 15 Taiwanese who are allegedly part of a Southeast Asian syndicate involved in credit card and online fraud has been reset because there was no translator who can read them the criminal charges in Chinese.
A source told The STAR that the Parañaque Regional Trial Court Branch 258 has rescheduled the arraignment on July 30. The source said of the 15 accused, only two can “understand a little English. The rest (neither) speak nor understand” the language.
The Taiwanese were arrested by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Technical Investigation Division and Intelligence Services who raided their den last year. They were charged with violating the Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998.
According to the NBI, the accused hacked online websites to acquire credit card information of the clients. Once they have the information, they make online purchases or transfer money from the credit card account to Paypal, then to an account in the Philippines and withdraw the money using an automated teller machine.
The syndicate members also reportedly pose as legitimate businessmen in the Philippines and sell non-existent products to victims who use credit cards.
“If there is a customer abroad, he will pay 50 percent, but there will be no product. If there is shipment, it only contains rocks or sand or fake items. The names on the shipment are not the names of the real owners of the shipment,” NBI’s Palmer Mallari said in a previous interview.
By Aie Balagtas See
Phillippine Star
A source told The STAR that the Parañaque Regional Trial Court Branch 258 has rescheduled the arraignment on July 30. The source said of the 15 accused, only two can “understand a little English. The rest (neither) speak nor understand” the language.
The Taiwanese were arrested by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Technical Investigation Division and Intelligence Services who raided their den last year. They were charged with violating the Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998.
According to the NBI, the accused hacked online websites to acquire credit card information of the clients. Once they have the information, they make online purchases or transfer money from the credit card account to Paypal, then to an account in the Philippines and withdraw the money using an automated teller machine.
The syndicate members also reportedly pose as legitimate businessmen in the Philippines and sell non-existent products to victims who use credit cards.
“If there is a customer abroad, he will pay 50 percent, but there will be no product. If there is shipment, it only contains rocks or sand or fake items. The names on the shipment are not the names of the real owners of the shipment,” NBI’s Palmer Mallari said in a previous interview.
By Aie Balagtas See
Phillippine Star
segunda-feira, 25 de junho de 2012
2012 Nida Translation Studies Research Symposium - September 14
This year¹s main presenters are Professors Lawrence Venuti (Temple) and Anne E. B. Coldiron (Florida State). Michael Forster (Chicago) and Mary Helen McMurran (Western Ontario) are respondents. This year's theme is, The Intersection between Translation, History, and Methodology.
When: Friday, September 14, 2012; 10 am 4 pm
Where: NYC, College Board, 45 Columbus Ave. and 61st St.
Registration is necessary:
Go to the website
Cost: $75.00 USD
Space is limited, so register early.
Nida School of Translation Studies
When: Friday, September 14, 2012; 10 am 4 pm
Where: NYC, College Board, 45 Columbus Ave. and 61st St.
Registration is necessary:
Go to the website
Cost: $75.00 USD
Space is limited, so register early.
Nida School of Translation Studies
An introduction to subtitling: bridging the language and culture divide
FREE EVENT:
Friday, 26 October 2012
Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU
The European Commission Representation in the UK, the Translation Group at Imperial College London and the VSI Group are holding a full-day seminar on subtitling aimed at students of modern languages and translation. This e...vent examines some of the most significant changes to have taken place recently
in the subtitling field.
The seminar will include talks on the audiovisual industry and subtitling workshops, followed by an early-evening panel discussion.
The subtitling workshops will cover the following language combinations:
English into French/or German/or Italian/or Spanish;
French/or German/or Spanish into English.
Participants must bring their own laptops and earphones for the practical exercises and will be e-mailed a text to prepare in advance for the workshops.
Time: 11.00 for the seminar.
17.30 for the panel discussion.
Entrance to this event is free but places are limited.
To reserve a place, please e-mail dgt-london@ec.europa.eu putting "Subtitling Event" in the subject field and specifying the following:
• whether you intend to attend the seminar and panel discussion or just the panel (seminar + panel OR panel only);
• which language group you will join for the practical exercise:
English into French/or German/or Italian/or Spanish;
French/or German/or Spanish into English.Ver mais
Friday, 26 October 2012
Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU
The European Commission Representation in the UK, the Translation Group at Imperial College London and the VSI Group are holding a full-day seminar on subtitling aimed at students of modern languages and translation. This e...vent examines some of the most significant changes to have taken place recently
in the subtitling field.
The seminar will include talks on the audiovisual industry and subtitling workshops, followed by an early-evening panel discussion.
The subtitling workshops will cover the following language combinations:
English into French/or German/or Italian/or Spanish;
French/or German/or Spanish into English.
Participants must bring their own laptops and earphones for the practical exercises and will be e-mailed a text to prepare in advance for the workshops.
Time: 11.00 for the seminar.
17.30 for the panel discussion.
Entrance to this event is free but places are limited.
To reserve a place, please e-mail dgt-london@ec.europa.eu putting "Subtitling Event" in the subject field and specifying the following:
• whether you intend to attend the seminar and panel discussion or just the panel (seminar + panel OR panel only);
• which language group you will join for the practical exercise:
English into French/or German/or Italian/or Spanish;
French/or German/or Spanish into English.Ver mais
sexta-feira, 22 de junho de 2012
Google quer preservar línguas em extinção
O Google está lançado um projeto para ajudar a salvar línguas em perigo de extinção. Prevê-se que 50% das sete mil línguas faladas no mundo desaparecerão até 2100.
O objetivo é usar a tecnologia para ajudar na preservação dessas línguas. Através do site Endangered Languages (“línguas ameaçadas”), textos e gravações de áudio e vídeo podem ser carregados para montar um arquivo online da língua ameaçada.
A apresentação do projeto lembra que a importância de uma língua vai muito além da comunicação. É um acervo vivo de conhecimento, valores culturais e história, incluindo conteúdo científico, médico e botânico. “Com frequência, a perda de uma língua está relacionada à opressão e à injustiça”, acrescenta o vídeo disponível no site do projeto.
No site, um mapa-múndi localiza as línguas com pontos cuja cor indica o nível de ameaça. Aquelas em estado mais crítico aparecem com pontos vermelhos. O mapa mostra várias nessa situação no Brasil, entre elas o idioma xipaya, do Pará, considerada “criticamente em risco” por ter apenas dois falantes vivos. Outros idiomas ameaçados no País que aparecem no mapa incluem o xokleng (Paraná), Karo (Rondônia), kaiwá (Mato Grosso do Sul) e yaté (Pernambuco).
Estadão
O objetivo é usar a tecnologia para ajudar na preservação dessas línguas. Através do site Endangered Languages (“línguas ameaçadas”), textos e gravações de áudio e vídeo podem ser carregados para montar um arquivo online da língua ameaçada.
A apresentação do projeto lembra que a importância de uma língua vai muito além da comunicação. É um acervo vivo de conhecimento, valores culturais e história, incluindo conteúdo científico, médico e botânico. “Com frequência, a perda de uma língua está relacionada à opressão e à injustiça”, acrescenta o vídeo disponível no site do projeto.
No site, um mapa-múndi localiza as línguas com pontos cuja cor indica o nível de ameaça. Aquelas em estado mais crítico aparecem com pontos vermelhos. O mapa mostra várias nessa situação no Brasil, entre elas o idioma xipaya, do Pará, considerada “criticamente em risco” por ter apenas dois falantes vivos. Outros idiomas ameaçados no País que aparecem no mapa incluem o xokleng (Paraná), Karo (Rondônia), kaiwá (Mato Grosso do Sul) e yaté (Pernambuco).
Estadão
quinta-feira, 21 de junho de 2012
Gilberto Gil vai traduzir canções do musical 'O Rei Leão'
Gilberto Gil foi convidado para fazer a versão brasileira das músicas do musical O Rei Leão, informou a coluna de Mônica Bergamo, do jornal Folha de S.Paulo. As canções originais são de Elton John.
O Rei Leão estreia em São Paulo em março de 2013. Em cartaz há 15 anos em Nova York, o espetáculo já foi produzido em 19 países e tem bilheteria acumulada de US$ 4,8 bilhões.
Jornal do Brasil
O Rei Leão estreia em São Paulo em março de 2013. Em cartaz há 15 anos em Nova York, o espetáculo já foi produzido em 19 países e tem bilheteria acumulada de US$ 4,8 bilhões.
Jornal do Brasil
Tânia Ganho sobre «A Mulher-Casa»: «Este livro é uma homenagem às mulheres»
Christos Tsiolkas apresentou-me, em «A Bofetada», a tradutora Tânia Ganho. Foi devido a este livro que conversámos pela primeira vez. Algum tempo depois, saiu «O Filho do Desconhecido», de Alan Hollinghurst, com outra excelente tradução da mesma tradutora. Antes destes dois livros, já Tânia Ganho havia traduzido John Banville, David Lodge, Ali Smith, Nicholas Shakespeare, entre outros…No entanto, é a sua própria produção ficcional que aproxima ainda mais Tânia Ganho dos leitores. É pela sua própria voz, pelos mundos que cria, que se dá a conhecer. Vencedora, em 2011, do Concurso Internacional de Contos Cidade de Araçatuba, a escritora lançou, em 2012, «A Mulher-Casa» (Porto Editora).Tânia Ganho propõe-nos, no seu quarto romance, um exercício de interpretação literária sobre o problema da libertação do indivíduo.
Neste livro, a atenção recai sobre o papel da mulher na sociedade. A Moral, o Hedonismo, a Fidelidade são temas sobre os quais a autora propõe a reflexão.
Todos nos identificamos, em algum aspecto, com a família de Mara, mesmo que sigamos caminhos diferentes dos que os seus elementos seguiram. Daí a inquietação que «A Mulher-Casa» provoca.
Leia a entrevista no Diário Digital
Neste livro, a atenção recai sobre o papel da mulher na sociedade. A Moral, o Hedonismo, a Fidelidade são temas sobre os quais a autora propõe a reflexão.
Todos nos identificamos, em algum aspecto, com a família de Mara, mesmo que sigamos caminhos diferentes dos que os seus elementos seguiram. Daí a inquietação que «A Mulher-Casa» provoca.
Leia a entrevista no Diário Digital
Falta de tradução constrange ministro da Bósnia
Mirko Sarovic não fala inglês e ONU não oferece tradução para bósnio. Representante teve de esperar diante dos microfones para discursar.
O ministro do Comércio Exterior e Relações Econômicas da Bósnia, Mirko Sarovic, passou por uma situação constrangedora ao discursar na plenária das Nações Unidas durante a Rio+20, na noite desta quarta-feira (20).
Sarovic, que não fala inglês, teve que esperar cerca de três minutos para discursar em bósnio, enquanto os tradutores tentavam encontrar versão em inglês do discurso, que havia sido preparada pelos assessores do ministro.
“Isso é devido ao horário, estamos trabalhando há 12 horas sem parar”, desculpou-se o o presidente da mesa. O incidente aconteceu por volta de 22h30, quando Dilma Rousseff, que foi eleita presidente da Rio+20, já tinha deixado a plenária no momento. Sarovic foi o último a discursar na noite.
A plenária da Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável tem tradução simultânea para as línguas oficiais da ONU – inglês, francês, espanhol, árabe, russo e mandarim – e para o português. Quem quiser discursar em alguma língua que esteja fora dessa lista, deve apresentar um texto traduzido, como fez Sarovic.
Antes dele, os representantes da Hungria e da Moldávia já tinham feito essa opção, mas o processo funcionou normalmente e não os deixou esperando em frente ao microfone. Houve ainda quem abrisse mão da primeira língua e utilizasse diretamente o inglês, como fizeram os representantes de Mongólia, Geórgia e Cazaquistão, entre outros.
VNews
O ministro do Comércio Exterior e Relações Econômicas da Bósnia, Mirko Sarovic, passou por uma situação constrangedora ao discursar na plenária das Nações Unidas durante a Rio+20, na noite desta quarta-feira (20).
Sarovic, que não fala inglês, teve que esperar cerca de três minutos para discursar em bósnio, enquanto os tradutores tentavam encontrar versão em inglês do discurso, que havia sido preparada pelos assessores do ministro.
“Isso é devido ao horário, estamos trabalhando há 12 horas sem parar”, desculpou-se o o presidente da mesa. O incidente aconteceu por volta de 22h30, quando Dilma Rousseff, que foi eleita presidente da Rio+20, já tinha deixado a plenária no momento. Sarovic foi o último a discursar na noite.
A plenária da Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável tem tradução simultânea para as línguas oficiais da ONU – inglês, francês, espanhol, árabe, russo e mandarim – e para o português. Quem quiser discursar em alguma língua que esteja fora dessa lista, deve apresentar um texto traduzido, como fez Sarovic.
Antes dele, os representantes da Hungria e da Moldávia já tinham feito essa opção, mas o processo funcionou normalmente e não os deixou esperando em frente ao microfone. Houve ainda quem abrisse mão da primeira língua e utilizasse diretamente o inglês, como fizeram os representantes de Mongólia, Geórgia e Cazaquistão, entre outros.
VNews
Plenário da ONU lembra bagunça na sala de aula
Enquanto Willy Telavi, primeiro-ministro de Tuvalu discursa, diplomatas do México tiram fotos, o adido militar de uma delegação africana desfila como se estivesse passando a tropa em revista, muita gente conversa ou grita ao telefone e, até, há quem fique de costas para o orador. Parece uma sala de aula, mas é o plenário da ONU, onde se realiza a Rio+20, Conferência sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável que vai até o dia 22.
Quem assiste ao encontro pela TV não faz ideia da bagunça. Programado para ser o primeiro a discursar, o presidente do Paraguai, Fernando Lugo, não apareceu. Em seu lugar foi escalado o presidente do Tajiquistão. Pediu apoio ao mundo para a criação de um fundo internacional destinado à proteção de geleiras.
Emomali Rahmon foi muito aplaudido ao final de seu discurso, mas um espectador mais atento logo se dá conta que os aplausos são protocolares. Mesmo quem não está prestando atenção aos discursos bate palmas. É a senha para a fila andar e vir o próximo mandatário.
O presidente da Argélia, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, falou por quase dois minutos quando foi interrompido. A tradução simultânea não estava funcionando. Teve que recomeçar.
Como num show de rock, telões gigantes, nas extremidades do palco, exibem a imagem de quem está discursando. Outras seis telas, de grandes proporções, espalham-se pelo enorme plenário.
Mas pouca gente olha. Flagrei diplomata navegando pelo Facebook, outro vendo um vídeo em seu iPad e um terceiro filmando os colegas, tudo enquanto o primeiro-ministro do Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai, reclamava que “o mundo hoje é mais injusto do que aquele que herdamos”.
Ouvindo a tradução simultânea, fiquei sem saber se foi exagero retórico do presidente do Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, ou erro de quem falava em português o anúncio de que o país “aplica o conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável há mais de 2.000 anos”.
Todo chefe de Estado ou de governo tem direito a discursar por cinco minutos. O presidente da mesa da ONU lembra o fato a todo momento, mas ninguém respeita o prazo. A sessão de abertura, programada para ir das 10h às 13h, começou às 10h30 e só terminou às 15h.
Esta foi apenas a primeira sessão. Serão três dias de discursos – e bagunça.
Por Mauricio Stycer
Notícias Bol
Quem assiste ao encontro pela TV não faz ideia da bagunça. Programado para ser o primeiro a discursar, o presidente do Paraguai, Fernando Lugo, não apareceu. Em seu lugar foi escalado o presidente do Tajiquistão. Pediu apoio ao mundo para a criação de um fundo internacional destinado à proteção de geleiras.
Emomali Rahmon foi muito aplaudido ao final de seu discurso, mas um espectador mais atento logo se dá conta que os aplausos são protocolares. Mesmo quem não está prestando atenção aos discursos bate palmas. É a senha para a fila andar e vir o próximo mandatário.
O presidente da Argélia, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, falou por quase dois minutos quando foi interrompido. A tradução simultânea não estava funcionando. Teve que recomeçar.
Como num show de rock, telões gigantes, nas extremidades do palco, exibem a imagem de quem está discursando. Outras seis telas, de grandes proporções, espalham-se pelo enorme plenário.
Mas pouca gente olha. Flagrei diplomata navegando pelo Facebook, outro vendo um vídeo em seu iPad e um terceiro filmando os colegas, tudo enquanto o primeiro-ministro do Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai, reclamava que “o mundo hoje é mais injusto do que aquele que herdamos”.
Ouvindo a tradução simultânea, fiquei sem saber se foi exagero retórico do presidente do Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, ou erro de quem falava em português o anúncio de que o país “aplica o conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável há mais de 2.000 anos”.
Todo chefe de Estado ou de governo tem direito a discursar por cinco minutos. O presidente da mesa da ONU lembra o fato a todo momento, mas ninguém respeita o prazo. A sessão de abertura, programada para ir das 10h às 13h, começou às 10h30 e só terminou às 15h.
Esta foi apenas a primeira sessão. Serão três dias de discursos – e bagunça.
Por Mauricio Stycer
Notícias Bol
Duolingo Launches Language Education and Translation Website
PITTSBURGH, Jun 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Duolingo, a combination free language education website and crowd-sourced online translation service, today became available to the public after a period of private beta. Co-founded by crowd-sourcing pioneer Luis von Ahn, who also developed CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA and the Google Image Labeler, Duolingo is dedicated to translating the web into every language by having language students translate it while they learn a new language for free.
Access to the internet is growing worldwide, but many visitors are still unable to unlock a wealth of information, simply because of language. Duolingo addresses this problem in two ways: by helping users learn a new language and translate the web into other languages. And most importantly, the service is completely free.
"Duolingo leverages the brain power of millions of people who are currently learning a new language to help translate the web," says Luis von Ahn, co-founder of Duolingo. "So much of the web is partitioned off by language barriers. With more than a billion people on the planet learning a new language, I knew this was the ultimate opportunity to not only provide accessible education resources, but also make the internet a truly world wide web."
Language translation is at the core of Duolingo's educational service. For example, if a native English speaker seeks to learn Spanish, Duolingo will start by giving the user a level-appropriate Spanish sentence from a Spanish website to translate, along with relevant lessons and education examples. Users then have the opportunity to vote on the quality of other user translations -- ensuring the most accurate translation, all while helping the user better understand the language.
Since launching in private beta in late 2011, Duolingo has more than 125,000 active users. To date, users translated 75 million sentences. Duolingo currently offers translation and opportunities to learn English, Spanish, German and French. The website plans to expand its language offerings to Portuguese, Chinese and many others in the near future.
Duolingo is an online social platform that teaches users a new language while they simultaneously translate content across the web. Duolingo's mission is to translate the web into every language, as well as make language education accessible to the masses. Co-founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn, the developer of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, and Severin Hacker, Duolingo launched to public in June 2012. The company is based in Pittsburgh, Pa. For more information, visit the site at www.duolingo.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/duolingo , or follow Duolingo on Twitter at @Duolingo.
Market Watch
Access to the internet is growing worldwide, but many visitors are still unable to unlock a wealth of information, simply because of language. Duolingo addresses this problem in two ways: by helping users learn a new language and translate the web into other languages. And most importantly, the service is completely free.
"Duolingo leverages the brain power of millions of people who are currently learning a new language to help translate the web," says Luis von Ahn, co-founder of Duolingo. "So much of the web is partitioned off by language barriers. With more than a billion people on the planet learning a new language, I knew this was the ultimate opportunity to not only provide accessible education resources, but also make the internet a truly world wide web."
Language translation is at the core of Duolingo's educational service. For example, if a native English speaker seeks to learn Spanish, Duolingo will start by giving the user a level-appropriate Spanish sentence from a Spanish website to translate, along with relevant lessons and education examples. Users then have the opportunity to vote on the quality of other user translations -- ensuring the most accurate translation, all while helping the user better understand the language.
Since launching in private beta in late 2011, Duolingo has more than 125,000 active users. To date, users translated 75 million sentences. Duolingo currently offers translation and opportunities to learn English, Spanish, German and French. The website plans to expand its language offerings to Portuguese, Chinese and many others in the near future.
Duolingo is an online social platform that teaches users a new language while they simultaneously translate content across the web. Duolingo's mission is to translate the web into every language, as well as make language education accessible to the masses. Co-founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn, the developer of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, and Severin Hacker, Duolingo launched to public in June 2012. The company is based in Pittsburgh, Pa. For more information, visit the site at www.duolingo.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/duolingo , or follow Duolingo on Twitter at @Duolingo.
Market Watch
AT&T, interpreting firm Language Line Services team
If the most you can say in Spanish is "taco" and your German is "null," help may be as close as your cellphone.
One of the world's largest interpreting companies, Language Line Services of Monterey, has teamed with AT&T to let cellphone owners contact professional interpreters 24 hours a day, seven days a week by dialing *4.
Under the new service, cellphone users who subscribe to AT&T On Demand Interpreter pay $9.99 per month plus $2.99 per minute per call to get access to interpreters who speak more than 170 languages.
The service is promoted for use by government workers who need to communicate with non-English speakers during emergencies or for businesses who need to communicate with customers or clients who don't speak English.
Language Line, which employs more than 6,000 interpreters, said it plans to hire about 2,000 additional interpreters this year to keep up with a recent surge in demand for interpreting services.
"Language access in the U.S. has never been more important than it is today, as the country's growing ethnic minorities are projected to become a majority by 2042," said Louis F. Provenzano Jr., president and chief executive officer of Language Line Services.
LA Times
One of the world's largest interpreting companies, Language Line Services of Monterey, has teamed with AT&T to let cellphone owners contact professional interpreters 24 hours a day, seven days a week by dialing *4.
Under the new service, cellphone users who subscribe to AT&T On Demand Interpreter pay $9.99 per month plus $2.99 per minute per call to get access to interpreters who speak more than 170 languages.
The service is promoted for use by government workers who need to communicate with non-English speakers during emergencies or for businesses who need to communicate with customers or clients who don't speak English.
Language Line, which employs more than 6,000 interpreters, said it plans to hire about 2,000 additional interpreters this year to keep up with a recent surge in demand for interpreting services.
"Language access in the U.S. has never been more important than it is today, as the country's growing ethnic minorities are projected to become a majority by 2042," said Louis F. Provenzano Jr., president and chief executive officer of Language Line Services.
LA Times
Euro 2012 Prompts Ukrainians to Learn English
KYIV - While members of the Ukrainian parliament are fighting over the status of the Russian language in Ukraine, English is becoming more popular in the country - without any government directive. Market forces - in which supply dictates demand - as well as the Euro 2012 football (soccer) championship, co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland, are having an impact on Ukrainians becoming trilingual.
Euro 2012 has changed Ukrainians’ daily routine, especially those who live in the host-cities. The championship has attracted many tourists to the country, who remind Ukrainians that while the national parliament struggles to decide which language they should speak - Russian or Ukrainian - more and more people around the world are turning to English, especially in international business.
With that in mind, some Ukrainians, on their own, have begun speaking and running their businesses using several languages.
“We organize many tours with English-speaking guides, but most of them are still ordered by some self-organized travel groups that are coming here to Kyiv," said Arseniy Finberg, project coordinator for Interesting Kyiv.
The Ukrainian capital is also switching to English. The names of subway stations are now announced in Ukrainian and English, and all the signs are in both languages. And restaurant owners have added a few extra menus in English to those they already have.
“Last year when I was here, everything was in Ukrainian. Now everywhere, in the subway for example, all the signs are in English, and also the speaker voice is in Ukrainian and in English," said Swedish tourist Katerina. "And you can really tell that the town has prepared to welcome the tourists because now all the signs are in two languages and so on.”
Ukrainians are sometimes surprised by how well soccer fans from abroad speak English - even though it is not their national language. Those who have had a chance to take part in Euro 2012, have seen that market forces are in effect, with those knowing at least three languages in demand among employers.
“English language is a must these days," said Euro 2012 volunteer Tetiana. "It doesn’t matter in which field you work, you can find it connected with English."
“The quantity of people speaking English is increasing with a speed of a sound. I know people who don’t speak English they start attending language schools. Almost everyone now speaks English," said Kateryna, another Euro 2012 volunteer.
With the flow of tourists to Kyiv, local residents are seeing the important role the English language plays - even in the course of watching soccer games in their home country. As a result, Ukrainians are finding they are going back to their school years, trying to come up with a few English phrases - if only to explain to foreign fans why the Ukrainian team they are cheering for will win.
Watch the video at Voice of America
Euro 2012 has changed Ukrainians’ daily routine, especially those who live in the host-cities. The championship has attracted many tourists to the country, who remind Ukrainians that while the national parliament struggles to decide which language they should speak - Russian or Ukrainian - more and more people around the world are turning to English, especially in international business.
With that in mind, some Ukrainians, on their own, have begun speaking and running their businesses using several languages.
“We organize many tours with English-speaking guides, but most of them are still ordered by some self-organized travel groups that are coming here to Kyiv," said Arseniy Finberg, project coordinator for Interesting Kyiv.
The Ukrainian capital is also switching to English. The names of subway stations are now announced in Ukrainian and English, and all the signs are in both languages. And restaurant owners have added a few extra menus in English to those they already have.
“Last year when I was here, everything was in Ukrainian. Now everywhere, in the subway for example, all the signs are in English, and also the speaker voice is in Ukrainian and in English," said Swedish tourist Katerina. "And you can really tell that the town has prepared to welcome the tourists because now all the signs are in two languages and so on.”
Ukrainians are sometimes surprised by how well soccer fans from abroad speak English - even though it is not their national language. Those who have had a chance to take part in Euro 2012, have seen that market forces are in effect, with those knowing at least three languages in demand among employers.
“English language is a must these days," said Euro 2012 volunteer Tetiana. "It doesn’t matter in which field you work, you can find it connected with English."
“The quantity of people speaking English is increasing with a speed of a sound. I know people who don’t speak English they start attending language schools. Almost everyone now speaks English," said Kateryna, another Euro 2012 volunteer.
With the flow of tourists to Kyiv, local residents are seeing the important role the English language plays - even in the course of watching soccer games in their home country. As a result, Ukrainians are finding they are going back to their school years, trying to come up with a few English phrases - if only to explain to foreign fans why the Ukrainian team they are cheering for will win.
Watch the video at Voice of America
Google Translate Misfires on Egypt's Future President
While Egyptians were busy voting for a new president, a glitch in Google Translate’s system accidentally revived the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.
When one typed “I will respect Egypt’s future president” in English, the Arabic translation was, “I will respect President Hosni Mubarak.”
Mubarak, who is reportedly clinging to life on a respirator, will not be Egypt’s future president. But as his military allies assert their power and Egyptian revolutionaries cry “coup,” Mubarak’s online appearance sparked suspicion and disbelief on Twitter and Facebook.
By Kate Woodsome
Voice of America
Multiple Spanish-Language Republican Websites Alter Their Immigration Positions
Sometimes things just get lost in translation, but when it comes to Republican websites, the language incongruities appear deliberate. After an initial report found that Nevada Senator Dean Heller’s Spanish website offered up a distinctly milder immigration stance than its English language counterpart, ThinkProgress has discovered other inconsistencies on GOP websites meant to reach Latino constituents.
Heller, the original offender, tried to pull a fast one on Spanish speakers by omitting his stance on border security and illegal immigration on his campaign’s Spanish site. Both of Heller’s websites have some general information on his immigration stance, but according to his English site (and only his English site):
“Businesses who knowingly hire illegal immigrants should be held accountable. Dean also believes border patrol must also have the resources necessary to end the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States and opposes amnesty for those who enter America illegally.”
Heller is not the only Republican guilty of this kind of web editing. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is a staunch Republican who, like Heller, represents a state with a huge Spanish speaking population. On Senator Cornyn’s English site, “Immigration” is the fourth policy listed on the “Key Issues” page — higher than “Education” and even “Homeland Security.” On the other hand, users on his Spanish site must scroll down to near the bottom of the page to learn about his immigration views.
Representative Steve Pearce (R) from New Mexico? Look on his English site’s “issues” page and “Border Security” is the first policy explanation you’ll find. But if you switch over to his site in Spanish, “Seguridad Fronteriza” is dead last.
The GOP is also wary of communicating its immigration stance to Spanish speakers on the national scale. RNClatinos.com, a recent Republican web effort to generate Latino support — which oddly enough originally used a stock photo of the wrong ethnicity — offers no explanation of Republican immigration policy at all. To be fair, neither does the English RNC website. Still, it would seem odd that a website specifically geared towards incorporating the Latino electorate would have such a glaring omission.
Recent Republican immigration laws have been, by in large, extremely hostile to Latinos. It’s not surprising then that obfuscation and surreptitious outreach is the GOP’s only prayer at securing some Latino votes, especially in light of President Obama’s immigration announcement last week.
By Steven Perlberg
Think Progress
Heller, the original offender, tried to pull a fast one on Spanish speakers by omitting his stance on border security and illegal immigration on his campaign’s Spanish site. Both of Heller’s websites have some general information on his immigration stance, but according to his English site (and only his English site):
“Businesses who knowingly hire illegal immigrants should be held accountable. Dean also believes border patrol must also have the resources necessary to end the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States and opposes amnesty for those who enter America illegally.”
Heller is not the only Republican guilty of this kind of web editing. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is a staunch Republican who, like Heller, represents a state with a huge Spanish speaking population. On Senator Cornyn’s English site, “Immigration” is the fourth policy listed on the “Key Issues” page — higher than “Education” and even “Homeland Security.” On the other hand, users on his Spanish site must scroll down to near the bottom of the page to learn about his immigration views.
Representative Steve Pearce (R) from New Mexico? Look on his English site’s “issues” page and “Border Security” is the first policy explanation you’ll find. But if you switch over to his site in Spanish, “Seguridad Fronteriza” is dead last.
The GOP is also wary of communicating its immigration stance to Spanish speakers on the national scale. RNClatinos.com, a recent Republican web effort to generate Latino support — which oddly enough originally used a stock photo of the wrong ethnicity — offers no explanation of Republican immigration policy at all. To be fair, neither does the English RNC website. Still, it would seem odd that a website specifically geared towards incorporating the Latino electorate would have such a glaring omission.
Recent Republican immigration laws have been, by in large, extremely hostile to Latinos. It’s not surprising then that obfuscation and surreptitious outreach is the GOP’s only prayer at securing some Latino votes, especially in light of President Obama’s immigration announcement last week.
By Steven Perlberg
Think Progress
Alice Walker forbids Hebrew "Color Purple" translation
Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize winner for "The Color Purple", and one of the most important contemporary African-American authors, has notified Israeli publisher Yediot Books, an affiliate of the Hebrew daily "Yediot Ahronot", that she will not allow it to publish a new translation of the book. "The Color Purple" was first translated into Hebrew in 1984.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel published Walker's letter of June 9, as was first reported by the "Jewish Telegraphic Agency" (JTA).
In the letter Walker says, "It isn’t possible for me to permit this at this time for the following reason: As you may know, last Fall in South Africa the Russell Tribunal on Palestine met and determined that Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. The testimony we heard, both from Israelis and Palestinians (I was a jurist) was devastating. I grew up under American apartheid and this was far worse. Indeed, many South Africans who attended, including Desmond Tutu, felt the Israeli version of these crimes is worse even than what they suffered under the white supremacist regimes that dominated South Africa for so long."
She adds, "It is my hope that the non-violent BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, of which I am part, will have enough of an impact on Israeli civilian society to change the situation."
The "JTA" says, "It was not clear when Yediot Books… made the request, or whether Walker could in fact stop translation of the book. At least one version of the book has already appeared in Hebrew translation, in the 1980s."
"The Color Purple", the story of an Black girl growing up in the segregated South, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Steven Spielberg made a movie based on the book, starring, among others, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
Walker, who was once married to a Jew, has heightened her attacks against Israel in recent years, and was a participant in one of the flotillas to Gaza, and trumpets the Palestinian cause.
In the letter, Walker states, "I offer an earlier example of The Color Purple's engagement in the world-wide effort to rid humanity of its self-destructive habit of dehumanizing whole populations. When the film of The Color Purple was finished, and all of us who made it decided we loved it, Steven Spielberg, the director, was faced with the decision of whether it should be permitted to travel to and be offered to the South African public. I lobbied against this idea because, as with Israel today, there was a civil society movement of BDS aimed at changing South Africa’s apartheid policies and, in fact, transforming the government.
"It was not a particularly difficult position to hold on my part: I believe deeply in non-violent methods of social change though they sometimes seem to take forever, but I did regret not being able to share our movie, immediately, with (for instance) Winnie and Nelson Mandela and their children... Which is to say, I would so like knowing my books are read by the people of your country, especially by the young, and by the brave Israeli activists (Jewish and Palestinian) for justice and peace I have had the joy of working beside. I am hopeful that one day, maybe soon, this may happen. But now is not the time."
Walker concludes, "We must continue to work on the issue, and to wait. In faith that a just future can be fashioned from small acts."
Globes
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel published Walker's letter of June 9, as was first reported by the "Jewish Telegraphic Agency" (JTA).
In the letter Walker says, "It isn’t possible for me to permit this at this time for the following reason: As you may know, last Fall in South Africa the Russell Tribunal on Palestine met and determined that Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. The testimony we heard, both from Israelis and Palestinians (I was a jurist) was devastating. I grew up under American apartheid and this was far worse. Indeed, many South Africans who attended, including Desmond Tutu, felt the Israeli version of these crimes is worse even than what they suffered under the white supremacist regimes that dominated South Africa for so long."
She adds, "It is my hope that the non-violent BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, of which I am part, will have enough of an impact on Israeli civilian society to change the situation."
The "JTA" says, "It was not clear when Yediot Books… made the request, or whether Walker could in fact stop translation of the book. At least one version of the book has already appeared in Hebrew translation, in the 1980s."
"The Color Purple", the story of an Black girl growing up in the segregated South, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Steven Spielberg made a movie based on the book, starring, among others, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
Walker, who was once married to a Jew, has heightened her attacks against Israel in recent years, and was a participant in one of the flotillas to Gaza, and trumpets the Palestinian cause.
In the letter, Walker states, "I offer an earlier example of The Color Purple's engagement in the world-wide effort to rid humanity of its self-destructive habit of dehumanizing whole populations. When the film of The Color Purple was finished, and all of us who made it decided we loved it, Steven Spielberg, the director, was faced with the decision of whether it should be permitted to travel to and be offered to the South African public. I lobbied against this idea because, as with Israel today, there was a civil society movement of BDS aimed at changing South Africa’s apartheid policies and, in fact, transforming the government.
"It was not a particularly difficult position to hold on my part: I believe deeply in non-violent methods of social change though they sometimes seem to take forever, but I did regret not being able to share our movie, immediately, with (for instance) Winnie and Nelson Mandela and their children... Which is to say, I would so like knowing my books are read by the people of your country, especially by the young, and by the brave Israeli activists (Jewish and Palestinian) for justice and peace I have had the joy of working beside. I am hopeful that one day, maybe soon, this may happen. But now is not the time."
Walker concludes, "We must continue to work on the issue, and to wait. In faith that a just future can be fashioned from small acts."
Globes
quarta-feira, 20 de junho de 2012
Language interpreter services see demand soar
Growth in U.S. immigration and a recent boom in international business transactions create more need for interpreters and translators. Over-the-phone language services are thriving.
A Chinese customer visited the Fox Hills branch of Wells Fargo Bank in Culver City recently to ask about several transactions on his checking account that didn't make sense to him. But he spoke only Mandarin, and no one in the bank could interpret.
In Southern California, where more than 200 languages are spoken, it's the type of problem that businesses and their customers face every day. As a result, companies that offer interpreters over the phone are in great demand by retailers, hospitals, banks, restaurants and other merchants.
By Hugo Martín
LA Times
A Chinese customer visited the Fox Hills branch of Wells Fargo Bank in Culver City recently to ask about several transactions on his checking account that didn't make sense to him. But he spoke only Mandarin, and no one in the bank could interpret.
In Southern California, where more than 200 languages are spoken, it's the type of problem that businesses and their customers face every day. As a result, companies that offer interpreters over the phone are in great demand by retailers, hospitals, banks, restaurants and other merchants.
By Hugo Martín
LA Times
AT&T introduces live translation service
By Martha Maurer
For anyone traveling abroad, it's OK to leave the translation dictionary at home.
AT&T has rolled out a new mobile service to reach a live interpreter 24/7 anywhere in the world.
AT&T Arizona spokesman Scott Huscher said "AT&T On-Demand Interpreter" can be an tool for businesses.
"It could be used by federal government agencies who need to work with a lot of different, diverse groups," he said, "as well as health-care providers. It's also something that's great for first responders in emergencies. When they get on-scene and someone is hurt and they can't communicate with them, it can help bridge that language gap."
Subscribers to the $10-per-month service can dial (star) 4 on the phones. When someone answers, the caller tells that person what language they need assistance with. The caller is then transferred to a live interpreter.
About 170 languages will be available.
Ktar
For anyone traveling abroad, it's OK to leave the translation dictionary at home.
AT&T has rolled out a new mobile service to reach a live interpreter 24/7 anywhere in the world.
AT&T Arizona spokesman Scott Huscher said "AT&T On-Demand Interpreter" can be an tool for businesses.
"It could be used by federal government agencies who need to work with a lot of different, diverse groups," he said, "as well as health-care providers. It's also something that's great for first responders in emergencies. When they get on-scene and someone is hurt and they can't communicate with them, it can help bridge that language gap."
Subscribers to the $10-per-month service can dial (star) 4 on the phones. When someone answers, the caller tells that person what language they need assistance with. The caller is then transferred to a live interpreter.
About 170 languages will be available.
Ktar
Trabalho sobre inteligência artificial ganha 22.ª edição do prémio IBM
A indicação das notícias preferidas de um leitor ou o resumo da informação disponível sobre um assunto na Internet estão entre as aplicações do trabalho desenvolvido pelo investigador que ganhou o prémio IBM 2011, anunciado pela empresa portuguesa.
André Martins, 34 anos, recém-doutorado num programa conjunto do Instituto Superior Técnico (IST e a Carnegie Mellon University, dos Estados Unidos, ganhou o prémio, no valor de 15 mil euros, com o trabalho no domínio da inteligência artificial "Turbo Parsers: Analisadores Sintáticos Estatísticos Baseados em Relaxações Lineares".
A investigação parte da análise de textos em linguagem natural, escritos por pessoas, e conseguir produzir aplicações ou programas informáticos que determinem o significado mais aproxima possível das frases.
A tarefa é tanto mais complicada, dado que a linguagem humana é ambígua e pode ter vários significados, disse André Martins à agência Lusa.
A tradução simultânea é outra das aplicações da área de estudo do cientista.
O analisador de linguagem escrita produzido por André Martins pode funcionar em qualquer língua e foi testado com sucesso em 14 idiomas, acrescentou o investigador.
O sistema de análise permite mesmo determinar o sentimento (positivo ou negativo) de um determinado texto, conseguindo com grande rapidez executar um processo que exige uma grande quantidade de tempo a humanos.
Numa fase mais avançada, é mesmo possível conseguir, num processo automático, um resumo das análises feitas a determinado assunto na blogosfera, por exemplo.
O júri, constituído por 13 investigadores e presidido pelo professor do IST Carlos Salema, elogia a "visão interdisciplinar, a completude da sua abordagem científica, a finalidade dos resultados obtidos e a extensão da aplicabilidade" do trabalho de André Martins.
"É com orgulho que vamos já na 22ª edição deste prémio e que o atribuímos desta feita a um projeto que reflete o que de melhor tem vindo a ser desenvolvido na área do conhecimento cognitivo e da linguagem natural", acrescenta Carlos Salema no comunicado onde a empresa anuncia o vencedor do galardão.
O prémio será entregue em setembro, numa cerimónia a realizar no IST em dia ainda por determinar.
RTP
André Martins, 34 anos, recém-doutorado num programa conjunto do Instituto Superior Técnico (IST e a Carnegie Mellon University, dos Estados Unidos, ganhou o prémio, no valor de 15 mil euros, com o trabalho no domínio da inteligência artificial "Turbo Parsers: Analisadores Sintáticos Estatísticos Baseados em Relaxações Lineares".
A investigação parte da análise de textos em linguagem natural, escritos por pessoas, e conseguir produzir aplicações ou programas informáticos que determinem o significado mais aproxima possível das frases.
A tarefa é tanto mais complicada, dado que a linguagem humana é ambígua e pode ter vários significados, disse André Martins à agência Lusa.
A tradução simultânea é outra das aplicações da área de estudo do cientista.
O analisador de linguagem escrita produzido por André Martins pode funcionar em qualquer língua e foi testado com sucesso em 14 idiomas, acrescentou o investigador.
O sistema de análise permite mesmo determinar o sentimento (positivo ou negativo) de um determinado texto, conseguindo com grande rapidez executar um processo que exige uma grande quantidade de tempo a humanos.
Numa fase mais avançada, é mesmo possível conseguir, num processo automático, um resumo das análises feitas a determinado assunto na blogosfera, por exemplo.
O júri, constituído por 13 investigadores e presidido pelo professor do IST Carlos Salema, elogia a "visão interdisciplinar, a completude da sua abordagem científica, a finalidade dos resultados obtidos e a extensão da aplicabilidade" do trabalho de André Martins.
"É com orgulho que vamos já na 22ª edição deste prémio e que o atribuímos desta feita a um projeto que reflete o que de melhor tem vindo a ser desenvolvido na área do conhecimento cognitivo e da linguagem natural", acrescenta Carlos Salema no comunicado onde a empresa anuncia o vencedor do galardão.
O prémio será entregue em setembro, numa cerimónia a realizar no IST em dia ainda por determinar.
RTP
Simultaneous Translation: University without Language Barriers
The KIT Institute of Anthropomatics Presents System for Automatic Simultaneous Lecture Translation
Internationalization makes universities face linguistic challenges: Do they have to provide their lectures in English or do all foreign students have to learn German? An alternative solution has been developed by the Institute of Anthropomatics of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): The first computer-based automatic simultaneous translation service at a university worldwide. Today, Professor Alex Waibel and his team presented the system on KIT Campus South.
“The automatic lecture translator is the result of long years of excellent research that will be of benefit to teaching. Hopefully, generations of students worldwide will profit from it soon,” said Theresia Bauer, Minister of Science, Research, and the Arts of the state of Baden-Württemberg during the presentation of the translator. “The translator marks a major step when considering the increasing heterogeneity of our students that is to be managed by us as a cosmopolitan place of knowledge.”
“At KIT, we have about 16% of foreign students. At universities in the USA, this share amounts to about 50%,” says KIT President Professor Horst Hippler. “In international competition for the best scientists, we are still behind.” The lecture translator is aimed at helping attract talented students from abroad. It is part of the efforts undertaken by KIT to overcome language barriers. ”The lecture translator automatically records the lecture, transcribes the text into a written version, and translates it into English in real time,” says Professor Alex Waibel. “Students can then follow the lecture via their PC or mobile phone.” The translator also translates transparencies presented during the lecture. Past lectures on the PC can be found and accessed via search terms in the written versions.
The lecture translator combines the technologies of automatic speech recognition and statistic machine translation in an integrated system. Auxiliary components structure the text, deal with punctuation, treat German compound words, record the lecture, and display the translation result. The components are combined by an innovative service infrastructure.
Global Scientia
“The translation is not always perfect,” says Waibel, “but it is part of the language tools, by means of which students are enabled to better follow the lectures in spite of language barriers.“ Presently, the lecture translator is being tested during lectures of the Departments of Informatics and Mechanical Engineering at KIT. In the future, it is planned to offer several languages for selection and to support a larger number of lectures. Not only foreign students, but also hearing-impaired persons will profit. The lecture translator is the result of two decades of research conducted by Alex Waibel and his scientific and commercial partners. These are in particular the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and Mobile Technologies LLC & GmbH. Work is also financed from funds of the European Commission and the German Excellence Initiative.
Internationalization makes universities face linguistic challenges: Do they have to provide their lectures in English or do all foreign students have to learn German? An alternative solution has been developed by the Institute of Anthropomatics of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): The first computer-based automatic simultaneous translation service at a university worldwide. Today, Professor Alex Waibel and his team presented the system on KIT Campus South.
“The automatic lecture translator is the result of long years of excellent research that will be of benefit to teaching. Hopefully, generations of students worldwide will profit from it soon,” said Theresia Bauer, Minister of Science, Research, and the Arts of the state of Baden-Württemberg during the presentation of the translator. “The translator marks a major step when considering the increasing heterogeneity of our students that is to be managed by us as a cosmopolitan place of knowledge.”
“At KIT, we have about 16% of foreign students. At universities in the USA, this share amounts to about 50%,” says KIT President Professor Horst Hippler. “In international competition for the best scientists, we are still behind.” The lecture translator is aimed at helping attract talented students from abroad. It is part of the efforts undertaken by KIT to overcome language barriers. ”The lecture translator automatically records the lecture, transcribes the text into a written version, and translates it into English in real time,” says Professor Alex Waibel. “Students can then follow the lecture via their PC or mobile phone.” The translator also translates transparencies presented during the lecture. Past lectures on the PC can be found and accessed via search terms in the written versions.
The lecture translator combines the technologies of automatic speech recognition and statistic machine translation in an integrated system. Auxiliary components structure the text, deal with punctuation, treat German compound words, record the lecture, and display the translation result. The components are combined by an innovative service infrastructure.
Global Scientia
“The translation is not always perfect,” says Waibel, “but it is part of the language tools, by means of which students are enabled to better follow the lectures in spite of language barriers.“ Presently, the lecture translator is being tested during lectures of the Departments of Informatics and Mechanical Engineering at KIT. In the future, it is planned to offer several languages for selection and to support a larger number of lectures. Not only foreign students, but also hearing-impaired persons will profit. The lecture translator is the result of two decades of research conducted by Alex Waibel and his scientific and commercial partners. These are in particular the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and Mobile Technologies LLC & GmbH. Work is also financed from funds of the European Commission and the German Excellence Initiative.
Pinterest Is Crowdsourcing The Site’s Translation
inShare.35 Pinterest wants to translate their site into other languages and they are seeking translators to assist them.
Here’s what they had to say in a blog post:
At Pinterest, we’ve always wanted to make it easy for people all over the world to organize and share all the beautiful things they find on the web. We want to take another step towards making this vision a reality by translating Pinterest into other languages.
At first, they want to focus on five languages – Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, German, and French. In the future, they say they would like to expand the scope of the translation with Dutch, Greek, Italian, Korean, Polish, Swedish, and more.
If you’re fluent in one of those languages and would like to participate in the translation, Pinterest has created a Google Doc-signup sheet that asks, among other things, how you learned the language in question and if you have any translation experience.
Twitter has had a lot of success in the past with crowdsourcing translation. Back in February, 2011, the Translation Center opened up. Twitter adds new languages to the Translation Center and people go to work translating the Twitter site (not the tweets). Once the task is completed, the new Twitter sites go live. Twitter’s most recent language addition was a handful of right-to-left languages including Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu, and Arabic. As of right now, Twitter is available in 28 languages.
Webpronews
Here’s what they had to say in a blog post:
At Pinterest, we’ve always wanted to make it easy for people all over the world to organize and share all the beautiful things they find on the web. We want to take another step towards making this vision a reality by translating Pinterest into other languages.
At first, they want to focus on five languages – Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, German, and French. In the future, they say they would like to expand the scope of the translation with Dutch, Greek, Italian, Korean, Polish, Swedish, and more.
If you’re fluent in one of those languages and would like to participate in the translation, Pinterest has created a Google Doc-signup sheet that asks, among other things, how you learned the language in question and if you have any translation experience.
Twitter has had a lot of success in the past with crowdsourcing translation. Back in February, 2011, the Translation Center opened up. Twitter adds new languages to the Translation Center and people go to work translating the Twitter site (not the tweets). Once the task is completed, the new Twitter sites go live. Twitter’s most recent language addition was a handful of right-to-left languages including Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu, and Arabic. As of right now, Twitter is available in 28 languages.
Webpronews
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