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In 2016, we announced our partnership with Edovo, an edtech start-up devoted to providing meaningful learning opportunities for the incarcerated population. Incarcerated Americans spend more time watching TV than anything else. Most of it’s a huge waste of their time and potential—and the $74 billion spent on corrections annually. If the goal of incarceration is…

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Feliz cumpleaños, С днем рождения, 生日快乐, and Happy Birthday to the U.S. Air Force! In celebration of  the 70th Air Force birthday, we’d like to remind all active duty airmen (as well as anyone with a .mil or .gov email address) that they can access learning materials in 120+ languages for free via the CL-150. This is a fantastic…

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The team at Transparent Language is always on the move, meeting with librarians, educators, and language program administrators around the country. As you might expect from language buffs, we also do a good bit of personal travel abroad. Today’s post is from Janet, our technical writer and perhaps most intrepid traveler. A few years back,…

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You might not think you’d need to use any Klingon outside of a sci-fi convention, but believe it or not, these phrases might actually come in handy in everyday life. Klingon is the fictional language spoken by aliens in Star Trek which has become a fully fleshed-out conlang (constructed language) in its own right and…

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We believe in the value of every language, no matter the commercial interest or number of speakers. That’s why we add a few new languages each year. We recently announced the addition of Hmong, but we can’t wait another minute to launch our second new language of 2017: Nepali and ESL for Nepali speakers! Nepali…

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