‘Being human helps’: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe’s translators?

A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet

Denmark Says Post-Editing Is Not Translation

Danish associations get legal backing to stop AI translation editors from getting credit as original translators.

Literary translation and its discontents: An essay by translator Jayasree Kalathil

Why are translators so often disrespected?

Softcatalà converteix el diccionari DEIEC al format d'Amazon Kindle - Softcatalà

El Diccionari essencial de la llengua catalana (DEIEC), editat per l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans, és un diccionari de nova planta que inclou els mots essencials de la llengua comuna. Softcatalà n’ha...

Ross Perlin: "Lenape, llengua original de Nova York, avui només té un parlant nadiu"

Entrevista al lingüista que ha estudiat les llengües que es parlen a Nova York, incloent-hi el català

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

Nature - First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

Sam Taylor: ‘Translating is like X-raying a book. You get a deep tissue read’

The US-based writer and translator on his new novel set in 1930s Vienna, his deep connection with the authors he has worked with and why he always returns to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

Do you speak a ‘big’ global language? Here’s what my tiny language can teach you | Ana Schnabl

I’m one of the 2.5 million users of Slovene – and English and German speakers would do well to be curious about us, says Slovenian novelist Ana Schnabl

What’s in a word? How less-gendered language is faring across Europe

A contentious vote in the French senate is only the latest battleground in the culture war over inclusive language

Majority of adults support compulsory language learning in schools – poll

Only one in five said they can have a conversation in a modern language that is not their mother tongue, survey found.

6 ingredients of a good translation