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Why and Where to Volunteer Your Translating Skills Posted by Jakob Gibbons on Dec 14, 2016 in Archived Posts
Translating a text is one of the best ways to give your language skills an all-around workout, and you’ll never run out of opportunities to do so: all across the world and the Web, people are waiting to put your language learning efforts to good use. Facing the linguistic pressures of globalization and the digital language divide that separates the linguistic…
Why Learn a Language if Machines Translate for You? Posted by kristen on Feb 11, 2013 in Archived Posts
Computers already facilitate communication, but will they someday allow real-time conversations between speakers of different languages? The Economist believes they might. In an article about machine translation, the author speculates that we may see computers doing this “Star Trek” kind of work someday soon. Still, this is a difficult feat for machines. They struggle with…