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U.S. Demand for Portuguese Increasing.   Universities admit that they are having difficulty keeping up with the increased interest in Portuguese.

Brain’s involvement in processing depends on language’s graphic symbols. In order to examine the interaction between the two hemispheres while reading Hebrew, English and Arabic, two experiments were conducted with subjects divided into three groups: those with Arabic as their mother tongue, those with English as their mother tongue and those with Hebrew as their […]

A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet. “People have a genuine desire to understand the world we now live in,” said Zach Sims, one of the founders of Codecademy. “They don’t just want to use the Web; they want to understand how it works.”

New wave of phishing attacks serves malware to PCs and Macs | ZDNet.   Mac and PC user beware: “The best protection available for this type of attack isn’t antivirus software; it’s a good spam filter and an effective update routine. Most of these messages were correctly flagged as spam by Microsoft Outlook, which moved […]

Interpreters, the Hidden Heroes of the Afghan War – NYTimes.com.   For American military members deployed to Afghanistan, our interpreters are not only a means of communicating with the Afghans, but are also the Afghans we interact with the most.

View Screen Capture The National Center for State Courts will start accepting registration for the Federal Court Interpreter Certification Exam on April 16 and exams are scheduled from August 6 through 17, nationwide. Exams will only be offered again in 2014, so do not miss this opportunity. Click here for more information.

In any language, a denial of justice | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper.   “Ineffective communication deprives judges and juries of the ability to make reliable decisions; (and) renders victims, witnesses and defendants effectively absent from proceedings that affect their rights,” U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez told AOC director John W. Smith in […]

The-IAPTImes-March-2012-Issue-No. 3.pdf (application/pdf Object).   The newsletter of the International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters – IAPTI (http://www.aipti.org). Lots of interesting information inside. Enjoy.