One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. As ...

It takes between 600 and 2,200 hours to learn a foreign language. And while I wish I had time to study the vast rainbow of languages I’ve encountered in my travels, it’s sadly impossible. Thankfully, ...

In recent years, I’ve read that the quality of machine translation has improved drastically. Nevertheless, I was quite unprepared when machine translation became an issue in my own course on academic ...

In the last year I have been doing business in China, and as I prepared for my second trip over I decided that it was time to try out Franklin's TGA-490 12-Language Speaking Global Translator. Priced ...

While living in Germany, my daughter went to a kindergarten where her teacher only spoke German. My daughter, immersed in the language, became my translator. It made me think about how different ...

A magazine writer reflects on the translators who have faithfully conveyed her questions over the years. By Susan Dominus Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers ...

The author is owner of KCXL(AM) and an FM translator at 102.9 MHz in Liberty, Mo., a suburb of the Kansas City metro area. Radio World invites industry-oriented commentaries and responses. Send to ...