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How US Libraries Survive—and Thrive—in the Changing Linguistic Landscape (Part 2) Posted by Transparent Language on Sep 9, 2015 in Archived Posts
The United States is now home to more Spanish speakers than Spain, the number of foreign language speakers has grown 94% since 1990, and 1 in 5 U.S. residents now speaks a foreign language at home. As libraries strive to serve their communities, they must consider more carefully how best to serve members who speak…
How Google Translate Works, and Why It Doesn’t Measure Up Posted by Transparent Language on Sep 2, 2015 in Archived Posts
With over 200 million daily translations, there’s no denying that Google Translate is a wildly popular translation service. Indeed, machine translation has come very far since its infancy in the early 2000s. Instead of translating words at face value, machine translators have developed complex algorithms to deliver more accurate translations, and some even take into…
Go Back to School en Español with New Spanish Elementary Lessons Posted by Transparent Language on Aug 31, 2015 in For Educators, For Learners, For Libraries, Learning Material Updates
Spanish teachers and home schoolers, this course is for you! Online technology has opened up a world of opportunities for teachers and homeschooling parents, but there’s a lot out there in that world that you can’t control. Even in educational technology, it’s sometimes hard to know what you’re going to get. If you’re teaching grade-school…
How U.S. Libraries Survive—and Thrive—in the Changing Linguistic Landscape (Part 1) Posted by Transparent Language on Aug 24, 2015 in Archived Posts
All 119,000+ libraries in the United States (whether public, academic, or government) share a common goal: to serve their community. As the linguistic landscape of the U.S. shifts, libraries must adapt to better serve their diverse members. How exactly can libraries respond to meet the needs of recent immigrants, resettled refugees, and non-English speakers in…
Custom Spanish Lessons: Viva La Tomatina! Posted by Transparent Language on Aug 17, 2015 in For Learners, Learning Material Updates
Each year on the last Wednesday of August, the streets of Buñol, Spain run red. Fear not, it’s only tomatoes, thrown around as part of a massive tomato fight known as La Tomatina. True story. This is the kind of stuff that brings the Spanish language and culture to life; the stuff both students and…
Transforming the Economics of Language Learning (Part 6): The Elegant Discipline of DABL Posted by Transparent Language on Aug 10, 2015 in Archived Posts
Ask a doctor the one thing that would make most patients healthier and you might hear, “if my patients would simply do what I ask them to do.” For many ailments, the cure is a simple behavior change: stop smoking, exercise. But behavior is astonishingly stubborn. Language learning, on the other hand, is as actually…
Transparent Connect Offers 3 New Corporate Language Training Programs Posted by Transparent Language on Aug 3, 2015 in For Businesses
In a globalized world, businesses need to operate in multiple languages, but when personnel need to learn or improve a language, it’s too expensive, takes too long and is too distracting. For years Transparent Language has developed and delivered innovative and hard-working technology that materially improve the economics, logistics, reliability and visibility of some of…