Last week, individuals from all major sectors of the interpreting field — community, conference, legal, medical, military, and sign language interpreting — gathered in Washington, D.C. to discuss common ground as well as differences. Organized by InterpretAmerica, the event also featured the presentation of a first-ever, comprehensive study of the North American interpreting marketplace, authored [...]

Recent news items in Ireland and the United States this week show that judicial systems are still sorely lacking when it comes to upholding the rights of individuals with limited English proficiency. Now, organizations with national influence, such as the Irish Translators and Interpreters Association (ITIA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), are having [...]

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 [...]

Less than two short months ago, we issued a public call for participation in our annual global study of the language services market. Today, we are pleased to announce the publication of our hot-off-the-press ranking of the Top 35 language service providers — accompanied by a few other noteworthy pieces of new research.