The rise of the middle class in China has fascinated international observers and mesmerized entrepreneurs and captains of industry for many years. Some see colossal-sized consumer markets for goods and services, while others see a threat to the country’s previously inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. While predicting changes like these may be “shooting fish in a barrel,” the [...]

What do you get when you combine 32 national soccer teams, 350,000 overseas visitors, and US$3.2 billion in media and marketing revenues? Plenty of opportunities for multilingual communications, that’s what. Because the FIFA World Cup is being held in an African nation for the first time, we spoke to a local South African firm to [...]

Passengers aboard a Greyhound bus traveling from Maine to New York last night feared for their lives amidst a bomb scare as a gentleman from Africa did not immediately exit the bus — not because he was a terrorist, but because he simply did not understand what the police officers were saying.

As the U.S. government attempts to count its population of roughly 300 million people, India gets ready to do the same – except it has nearly four times as many people. Two multilingual countries, two major Census initiatives. How exactly do they differ where language is concerned? We take a closer look: