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Popular children's television shows Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob Squarepants are to be translated into Maori for Kiwi kids.

Cambridge University study shows that the way in which language is formally taught fails to take full advantage of the learning process.

Swahili is set to become the official language of five major countries in East Africa as part of an effort to improve business and community links in the region.

Expanding your business abroad is a major undertaking, even for the most experienced entrepreneurs and marketing professionals....

A new proposal by the Indonesian bar association will prevent foreign lawyers practising unless they can pass an ethics exam….in Indonesian.

William Shakespeare is without a doubt one of the greatest writers of the English language. This article looks at Shakespear's influence on modern English and pronunciation.

Trademarks of logos, designs and other visual aspects of corporate branding are accepted but what about the translation of branded expressions into other languages?

The English language consists of a large amount of eponyms. An eponym is a person or a thing after which a specific discovery, place or era is named.

Old English is an early form of the English language and dates from the mid-5th to late 11th century A.D. It was written and spoken by the Anglo-Saxons

Coca-Cola has been forced to cancel a Canadian advertising campaign that combined randomly generated English and French words and displayed them on the inside of bottle tops after an woman in Edmonton, Canada received one that said “You Retard.”

Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political activist, has accused the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak of fabricating parts of a recent interview with him.

Standard English started as a regional dialect that developed in the southeast of England.

Swansea Council officials responsible for tremendous translation blunder on Welsh road sign.

Firefox, the popular web browser from the Mozilla Foundation, has been released with Tamil language support.

The local government of Karnataka, a state in south west India bordering Goa and Kerala, is campaigning for the local language of Tulu to be recognised as an official language.

Are fan translations (translation of media, mostly computer games, films, books and music, from one language to another) ethical?

Google Real-time Spoken Language Translator in Development. Google has confirmed that it is working on a real-time spoken language translator.

Google launched their latest functionality for Google Translate today. The new feature, which currently supports 45 languages, lets you translate a handwritten expression without the need for a keyboard.

We've translated Keep Calm and Carry On into loads of different languages! They look great and are very funny, so take a look and share away.

When speaking of grammatical genders, one might wonder what grammar has to do with sex. Not much, to be honest. The original meaning of ‘gender’ was ‘race’, ‘type’ or ‘kind’