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A business deal can live or die simply because you have overlooked the idiosyncrasies of language in relation to business etiquette.

Emails, videoconferencing and intranet technology mean many of us work with colleagues not only in different buildings, but in different countries.

COPE stands for Create Once, Publish Everywhere. The pace of change in digital media is so fast that today's technology can soon become yesterday's news....

No inquest has returned a verdict of death by bad translation - but poor translation in healthcare and law could seriously damage your health.

Garcia Marquez died earlier this month (April 17), aged 87, having seen his books translated into 21 languages.

Extracts from a hilarious brochure for a Beijing hotel that was translated from Mandarin to English using machine translation tools.

The wait is finally over – Android users can now get their hands on visual language translation app Waygo.

President of Gambia said: “We are going to speak our own language.”

As translation errors go, a mistake recently pointed out to the Sri Lankan government by the country’s angered Tamil community is a humdinger.

Try banishing the apostrophe and you risk facing a legion of angry grammarians intent of preserving the humble punctuation mark.

Baidu has updated its translation app to include object recognition but produces some very strange results.

As more law firms look to expand their global footprints in 2014, translation is becoming an increasingly important part of firms’ strategies.

A text has been translated that mentions the location of the lost Ark of the Covenant

scientists in Sweden and Finland are close to developing a dog-to-English translator

Google Translate makes it easier for companies to offer translated content to customers – but many companies, organisations get it wrong.

Toughest Tongue Twister Ever -- ‘Pad kid poured curd pulled cold.’

Research shows that patients with no or limited English are at greater risk of medical error or misdiagnosis if they are not provided with an interpreter.

Arsene Wenger's dedication to language has now been recognised in a poll voted for by Guardian readers to choose a public language champion for 2013.

The infamous sign language interpreter from Nelson Mandela’s funeral, Thamsanqa Jantjie, has claimed that he suffered from a schizophrenic attack that caused him to translate incorrectly and that he is an accredited sign language interpreter.

Scientists are mapping the brain in order to pinpoint areas crucial to language comprehension.