At the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair, which took place October 14-18, 2008 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, publishers from over 100 countries displayed their newest publications. Turkey was the guest of honor this year, and special exhibitions on Turkish life, literature, and culture were held.
U.S. booksellers at the fair, however, were slow to browse non-English [...]
In January 2009 a new translation law for Health Care Providers in California goes into effect. HealthLeaders InterStudy, a managed-care news service, reports that many providers have already submitted plans for conforming with the new law.
The law, known as Senate Bill 853, requires health plans to translate vital documents into the top spoken language among [...]
Facebook is causing quite a stir with its announcement to have its members perform free translations of its website. Using “crowdsourcing” to perform translations certainly saves a company lots of money–its free afterall–but at what costs?
Right now Spanish, French, and German are up an running, and other langauges such as Catalan, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Danish, [...]
Erik Camayd-Freixas, one of the interpreters for a group of 400 undocumented workers recently arrested by federal agents in Pottsville, Iowa, recently blew the whistle on the hearings which sent hundreds of the workers to jail without due process.
In an essay titled “Interpreting after the Largest ICE Raid in US History” published in the Monthly [...]
On June 3, 2008, the President signed a new law authorizing the Department of State to raise the number special immigrant visas (SIVs) to Iraqi and Afgan translators and interpreters, allowing handlers to exceed the 500 visas earlier allotted. Applicants may also qualify for resettlement benefits. For more information, see the Dept of [...]