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Top Translation Stories in the News This Week

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 […]


When You Don’t Have An Interpreter with You – Google Launches Image Text Translation Function

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 […]


Russian Irish Film ‘Anya’ By Brown Bag Productions

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 […]


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Medical Interpreting: International Congress Event Opens for Registration for Interpreters

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 […]


Languages & Culture in Ireland: The Latvian Community

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: Oxford Dictionary Develops New App for Academic English

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 […]