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Interpreting Service for Mexican Indian Languages

April 3, 2014 -By: Translation Guy -In: In the News / Awards, Interpretation, Language - Comments Off

Do you need a Mixteco interpreter? Responsive Translation provides Mixteco interpreters for organizations and individuals through our on-demand telephone interpreting service. Growing numbers of immigrants to the US from Mexico and points south don’t do well with Spanish translation because they don’t speak Spanish. These are the speakers of American Indian languages. Mostly from the […]

Before We Fire All the Translators

March 11, 2014 -By: Translation Guy -In: In the News / Awards, Interpretation, Language - Comments Off

Everyone is so eager to fire the translators. There seems to be this collective social expectation that those pajama-clad ranks will soon be decimated by a host of friendly artificial intelligences. Picture row upon row of burnished steel automatons typing away in vast warehouses in secure desert locations. Sure, someday. My guess is about five […]

Marketing and Advertising Translation

November 19, 2013 -By: Translation Guy -In: In the News / Awards, Interpretation, Language, Translation - Comments Off

In the course of planning for a new (and very interesting) project from one of our clients we took a look at all the different ways we translate and adapt advertising and marketing content for our clients. We also took a a look at the efforts of our competitors, which were disappointing as usual. We […]

Swahili Push in Uganda

November 11, 2013 -By: Translation Guy -In: In the News / Awards, Interpretation, Language, Translation - Comments Off

Is a second language for East Africa linguistic tyranny or regional solidarity? That’s the question Ugandans are asking about Swahili, or Kiswahili. Kiswahili means “language” in Swahili, and has been the lingua franca of East Africa for centuries. Now, as regional integration heats up, the East African Community (EAC), which includes Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania […]

Keeping Hopi at Home

November 1, 2013 -By: Translation Guy -In: In the News / Awards, Interpretation, Language, Translation - 1 Comments

What exactly are language preservationists preserving when they preserve an endangered language? Cultures with their own language have staying power, preserving human cultural diversity and a particular way of looking at the world. Language preservationists concentrate on those languages most imperiled. These are the languages spoken in cultures already experiencing massive disruption from contact with […]

‘Terp = Terrorist? State Dept Reneges on Visa for Afghan Interpreter

September 27, 2013 -By: Translation Guy -In: In the News / Awards, Interpretation, Language, Translation - 3 comments

For most interpreters, the harshest professional feedback they will ever see is an irate email. Not so for Afghan interpreter Janis Shinwari who went out to his car one morning to discover the words, “Judgment Day is coming soon,” scrawled across the hood of his car. Shinwari got the message. “I’m sure somebody is watching […]

Handwriting on the Wall for Google Translate 2.0

September 25, 2013 -By: Translation Guy -In: In the News / Awards, Interpretation, Language, Translation - Comments Off

Google Translate 2.0 is a long-overdue re-do of Google Translate, now primed for the slick, new Apple interface on iPhone and iPad. The language list continues to grow with an additional seven languages including Bosnian, Cebuano, Hmong, Javanese, Khmer, Lao and Marathi, and the endless pull-down list of over 70 languages that goes with it. […]

Scientists All Wet: Dolphins Are Really Dumb

September 16, 2013 -By: Translation Guy -In: In the News / Awards, Interpretation, Language, Translation - Comments Off

Flipper, say it ain’t so! Oh, sorry, I guess you can’t… Dolphins aren’t as smart as you think, and their language skills are way overrated, says self-described “dolphin scientist guy” Justin Gregg. Gregg, a researcher with the Dolphin Communication Project in Old Mystic, Connecticut, claims that scientists have been overrating dolphin intelligence and linguistic ability […]

Found in Translation

September 24, 2012 -By: Translation Guy -In: Interpretation - Comments Off

It is, as the Japanese say, 一石二鳥, one stone, two birds (Look closely at those characters…now you can read Japanese!) Regular readers already know that I never met a tired old cliché that I didn’t like, and the idea of killing two birds with one stone is particularly appealing to me, given my twin prime […]

English-Speaking Elite

July 2, 2010 -By: Translation Guy -In: Interpretation, Language - 11 comments

English is widely spoken by rich people. Doesn’t matter where you go in the world―where there’s money, there’s English. They’ve got the time and the cash to get educated, and the opportunities to take advantage of it. There was a time, and I remember it well, when those fancy folks were happy to speak their […]