32 countries, countless languages: Linguistic considerations at the World Cup

Episode 278 December 02, 2022 00:04:00
32 countries, countless languages: Linguistic considerations at the World Cup
Localization Today
32 countries, countless languages: Linguistic considerations at the World Cup

Dec 02 2022 | 00:04:00

/

Hosted By

Eddie Arrieta

Show Notes

Often referred to as the biggest sporting event in the entire world, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that broadcasters and organizers of the FIFA World Cup also have to take into account certain linguistic considerations when airing the games on television. 

Other Episodes

Episode 47

March 04, 2023 00:03:41
Episode Cover

The Week in Review: March 3, 2023

It doesn’t seem like ChatGPT will be leaving the news cycle anytime soon now — this week, OpenAI announced that it’s releasing an API...

Listen

Episode 163

July 18, 2022 00:03:07
Episode Cover

Meta reaches 200-language milestone in No Language Left Behind initiative

The announcement comes just a few months after the company announced that it would begin a project to develop a machine translation (MT) tool...

Listen

Episode 270

November 18, 2022 00:04:04
Episode Cover

UNM launches research center to support acquisition of Diné and other Indigenous languages

To promote language revitalization efforts among Native American communities and better understand the role children can play in such projects, the University of New...

Listen