Sign language program to graduate first class of majors – Lane Report | Kentucky Business & Economic News. More than 50 UofL students now major in ASLIS, which is part of the classical and modern languages department in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Translators Get a Slam of Their Own at PEN Festival – NYTimes.com.   Translation “is a solitary art, but because of that it is refreshing for translators to come out of the shadows and talk about what they do, to talk out loud about decisions you make in your mind every day,” said Michael F. […]

Thoroughly enjoyable!   [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9oJR2egKEs]

Tulsa Conference Hopes To Spur Improvement in Medical Translatio – NewsOn6.com – Tulsa, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports – KOTV.com |.   Making sure doctors and patients are on the same page can be the difference life and death.

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Tulsa to host annual medical interpreter forum | Tulsa World.   Advocates are trying to expand the national certification beyond Spanish and persuade hospitals to require their interpreters to be nationally certified.   “It’s really a meeting to draw all stakeholders together to look at this issue from a patient safety perspective,” [Izabel Arocha, IMIA […]

Culture, Not Biology, Shapes Human Language : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR. If you’re familiar with Noam Chomsky’s theorizing on language, you by now will have intuited that Everett’s data directly challenge it.

Google Now Translates as Much Text in a Day as Human Pros Can in a Year – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic. A key question over the next six years is how far Google’s current techniques can take them.

Interpreting in Conflict Zones. And just as international business requires multilingual communication, so too does war.