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Get Babies Talking with Baby Talk

January 28, 2014 -By: -In: In the News / Awards, Language - Comments Off on Get Babies Talking with Baby Talk

The best way to get babies talking is to talk to them using baby talk. Researchers recently listened in on parent-child “conversations” to discover the best techniques for parents teaching children to “use their words”.  Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Connecticut discovered that it wasn’t how many words babies heard, […]

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Technology and the Failure to Communicate

January 15, 2014 -By: -In: Language - Comments Off on Technology and the Failure to Communicate

At 1-800-Translate, we are only as good as our last phone call. Sure, the linguistic competence of our telephone interpreters is job number one, but that’s not the only factor that makes for effective telephone communication. Naomi Harte of Dublin’s Trinity College recently gave a presentation on all the different ways communication can go bad. […]

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