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US mental health crisis may be harder for individuals with limited English proficiency
A recent survey from CNN showed that 90% of adults in the United States believe the country is in the middle of a mental...
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A new policy for Nigerian languages in the country’s education system
Nigeria is home to more languages than all but two countries on Earth. Still, primary school students in the West African nation have been...
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Linguistic diversity is increasing in the US. What does that mean for language access?
In the United States, the number of people who speak a language other than English at home is rising faster than those who mainly...
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Soccer or Football? Beckham and Manning couldn’t solve it, so we did
If you’ve been watching the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, no doubt you can by now quote parts of the Frito Lays commercial featuring...
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Research from Translated projects that MT is nearing human-like levels of performance
The quality of machine translation (MT) is quickly approaching that of human translators, according to research published today by Translated.
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What do the words “permacrisis,” “gaslighting,” and “goblin mode” all have in common?
As 2022 comes to a close, English-language dictionary publishers are selecting the words that best encapsulate the character and ambiance of the last 365...