The National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters is inviting all medical interpreters seeking certification for the Russian language to schedule their oral exam. All candidates who have already taken the written exam in anticipation of this development have cause for celebration. The CMI credential for Russian speaking professionals has its first candidate scheduled to take […]

Thinking in another language changes how people weigh their options ByCatherine Caldwell-Harris The study of how people process foreign languages has traditionally focused on the topics we wrestled with in high school French or Spanish classes — botched grammar, misunderstood vocabulary, and mangled phonemes. But in recent years psychologists have gone to the laboratory with […]

Paris, France—The Académie Française filed a lawsuit today at the European Court of Language Slights in Brussels against the English language, claiming 650 million euros in compensation. The suit against the English language describes “the intentional misappropriation of core elements of French and imitation of its distinctive sound.” The Académie seeks damages and an injunction […]

Yes, it is indeed a futuristic gadget. Live translation without copy pasting into a translator? That’s cool. The Ivy Guide Mini-translator is such a device that will give its user live translation to a word he desires to see in another language. Currently capable of translating Chinese to English and vice versa, this device is […]

Constructing an in-line list — a series of items in a sentence — seems like a straightforward task, but writers frequently err in their attempts to produce parallel structure. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/5-parallelism-problems-in-in-line-lists/

ATIF-FLORIDA’s photostream on Flickr. ATIF hosted its table at the IMIA Conference which took place in Miami this past weekend.