Translation stories making headlines this week seemed to include a great spectrum of stories from current, exciting technologies that spring us into the future and remind us of the types of things we might have seen in sci-fi futuristic films in our younger years, to translations of or from the […]
This week, Google launched a powerful and interesting new translation feature for smartphones – the ability to use the camera to detect that something is text, read it and translate it! Of course, it’s not working at the level of a human interpreter and translator who can understand and distinguish […]
Kurdish Food in Dublin, Ireland The Kurdish people are spread between Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. Because of the turmoil of the past years in these areas, many Kurds leave their home to find a better life in the west. Ireland is one of their destinations and we now have […]
Anya: A Russia with Love and Brown Bag Productions Short Film The Irish charity To Russia with Love and the animation company Brown Bag productions produced this year the award winning short film Anya. The film, of a mere 5 minutes length presents the work of the charity through the […]
Greece in Ireland The Greek Community of Ireland – based in Dublin – is the main association of the Greek Irish community, which is estimated to be 800 strong. The Irish-Hellenic Association – active for 40 years now – regularly organises Greek cultural events. In Ireland, Ancient Greek language […]
International Medical Interpreters Association Event The IMIA International Congress on Medical Interpreting will take place on April 24th – 26th 2015 in Washington DC in the US and apparently the dates were selected to coincide with the Cherry Tree Blossom Season! The International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) is an umbrella association […]
Translation Error in New Irish Website According to a report from RTE this week, a website launched as part of the commemoration of the 1916 Rising in Ireland went live with the Irish language version of the site translated using Google translate. The company in charge of designing the website […]
The Latvian community in Ireland Latvian Children & Women Association (LCWA) is a non-profitable, non-racial, non-political and non-religious organisation with a focus on promoting education, Latvian culture and integration in Ireland. The organisation was born from the need for a Latvian platform in the country of Ireland. They work […]
Translation News: Academic English with a Handy New App for Students Academic English can seem like an entirely different language to everyday English and now to recognise that and make life easier for students, especially those of whom English is not their first language, the Oxford Dictionary have developed an […]
Tales of Translation & Fairytales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first take on their famous fairytales in December 1812, originally written in German, and followed this with Volume 2 in 1815. Six more editions were published, however, as time went on, they continued to make their fantastical tales more […]
