Azbuka Language Service

12/08/2024

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/06/18/g-s1-4461/if-ai-is-so-good-why-are-there-still-so-many-jobs-for-translators

Machine translation of foreign languages has been good for a while. And yet human translators are still in demand. Why isn’t AI killing these jobs? And even if it isn’t, how is it reshaping them?

12/08/2024

https://slator.com/how-many-translation-interpreting-jobs-will-there-be-in-the-future/

The US contrarian take on translation jobs, Reddit's focus on machine translation for international growth, latest AI dubbing features, and M&A corner.

12/08/2024

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/filipino/en/podcast-episode/beyond-language-and-culture-how-amies-filipino-class-aims-to-enrich-australia-philippines-relations/6atbxjiel

"It's usually through games, cooking lessons and role plays that I teach those subjects in the curriculum for my students in Prep to Year 6, but it has to be very modified because I am the first Filipino Language Other than English (LOTE) teacher in our school," northwest Victorian teacher Amie…

12/08/2024

https://theconversation.com/bilingualism-under-threat-structured-literacy-will-make-it-harder-for-children-to-hold-on-to-their-mother-tongue-236140

New Zealand’s bilingual children often lose their mother tongue by the time they leave school. But there are fears that use of English-based decoding in structured literacy will hasten this decline.

05/07/2024

05/07/2024

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01882-z

Testing two families of large language models (LLMs) (GPT and LLaMA2) on a battery of measurements spanning different theory of mind abilities, Strachan et al. find that the performance of LLMs can mirror that of humans on most of these tasks. The authors explored potential reasons for this.

05/07/2024

05/07/2024

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/language-for-olympic-games-host-compete-expect/7682418.html

In today's lesson, we look at three useful words for talking about the Olympic Games: host, compete, and expect. You will learn about these words and get a chance to practice using what you have learned.

14/06/2024

https://medcitynews.com/2024/06/reimagining-the-language-and-translation-space-for-patients/

Lack of adequate translation and interpreting services isn’t just an inconvenience, it is dangerous and potentially life-threatening.

14/06/2024

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/cambodian-media-highlight-vietnams-conservation-of-khmer-language-post288103.vnp

A series of Cambodian media agencies have recently run articles emphasising Vietnam’s conservation efforts targeting the languages and scripts of ethnic minority groups, especially Khmer people in the Mekong Delta.

05/06/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXw4BqGlDo

Learn Czech twice as fast with your FREE gifts of the month including PDF lessons, vocabulary lists and much more! Get your gifts now: https://goo.gl/vEwqmi ...

05/06/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCiamiaZTO8

✍️ SYNOPSIS: The complete history of Mandarin Chinese, from 官话 (guanhua) to Putonghua. 📍TIMESTAMPS:0:30 || One Nation, Too Many Languages2:50 || Brief Histo...

10/05/2024

https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/news/eight-key-insights-ai-and-future-translation-and-interpretation

Over 8,000 people from across the world recently tuned in for a conversation with top employers, academics, and practitioners on how the field is changing and what’s next.

10/05/2024

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-14/leaders-volunteer-as-interpreters-amid-a-shortage-of-translators/103698936

Flora Walter's WhatsApp group has around 500 members and has supported Mildura's Malay community in translating vital information for years, including during the Victorian floods of 2022. But it's not yet officially supported by government.

05/05/2024

https://www.wired.com/story/translation-tech-is-amazing-except-when-its-not/

We can hold surprisingly deep conversations across languages using simple apps on our phones. But even as these apps get a fresh boost from AI, they can still lead to some awkward moments.

23/04/2024

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/kurdish/en/podcast-episode/language-is-not-only-an-identity-language-is-a-historical-entity/rfox1y26p

Language is a strong identity for the Kurds that has kept them alive despite all the oppressions. But due to the lack of a standard language or alphabet, the Kurdish language faces many obstacles. In the fourth part of the second series of My Kurdish Language is My Identity, we speak to writer…

23/04/2024

https://www.lavanguardia.com/mediterranean/20240422/9600946/english-spanish-people-pronounce-word-language-british-council.html

The British Council has published an analysis outlining the reasons why Spanish speakers have difficulty pronouncing words in English

08/04/2024

https://www.languagemagazine.com/2024/02/08/building-interpreter-and-translator-networks/

During the past decade, interpreter and translator services have soared across public and public charter schools in the US. A primary reason for this dramatic increase is the “Dear Colleague” letter written by the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights and the Department of Justice, C...

08/04/2024

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-cognitive-neuroscientist-who-helped-unravel-the-mysteries-of-language/

Ursula Bellugi was fixated on how we learn language. Her groundbreaking research on sign language demonstrated the connection between language skills and biology

08/04/2024

https://aeon.co/essays/are-the-exact-words-of-a-language-arbitrary-or-necessary

Humans have a strong impulse to see things that are arbitrary or conventional as natural and essential – especially language

08/04/2024

https://time.com/6963810/english-global-lingua-franca/

It leaves the monolingual Anglosphere more culturally and politically isolated. Other languages are finally chipping away at its dominance.

08/04/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/05/the-guardian-view-on-endangered-languages-spoken-by-a-few-but-of-value-to-many

Editorial: The survival of ancient dialects matters not just for scholarship, but because of the wisdom they convey about how to live with nature

23/03/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s17lFFhbiMs&pp=ygUUYWxsIHNsYXZpYyBsYW5ndWFnZXM%3D

23/03/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slDJF2d0NTE

Dive into the fascinating realm of ancient languages with our enthralling video. Encounter the alluring sounds of historical civilizations through the skillf...

16/03/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV8_rdjok38&t=429s

Ranking 10 British / UK accents from easiest to most difficult. I sent 10 clips of celebrities with distinctive English accents to my students in a survey. ...

11/03/2024

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1875599/map-most-spoken-language-England-Polish-Romanian

England's most popularly spoken non-native languages have been revealed, with Polish and Romanian taking the top spots.

11/03/2024

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-people-languages-special-native-tongue.html

A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language.

11/03/2024

https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/how-to-change-the-language-on-disney-plus/

Did you know you can enjoy Disney+ movies and shows in up to 16 different languages? Here’s a guide on how to change the spoken word of Mickey Mouse.

11/03/2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-kent-67720050

Julia’s parents are Polish and every Saturday she attends a Polish school in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.