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- 10 Words that Defined a Year
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- 12 Amazing & Famous Palindromes from Around the World
- 14 Cultural Faux Pas Around The World
- 15 Foreign Language Resource Centers
- 20 Band Name Etymologies or, Dancing About Architecture (With Myself)
- 20 Best Foreign Loanwords in English
- 20 Rarely Used Words to Fascinate and Delight
- 2008 International Year of Languages
- 2009 PEN Translation Prizes Announced
- 2009 Translation Day Theme: Working Together
- 2010 Oscar Nominations for Foreign Language Films
- 2019 Brings Focus on Indigenous Languages Around the World
- 24 Countries That Have French as Their Official Language
- 25 Fun English Adjectives: Lexical Suggestions for Untying a Tied Tongue
- 3 Countries Where German Language Training Matters for Business Relations
- 3 Most Common Suffixes in Medical Terminology
- 3 Tips for Making the Transition to Remote Interpreting
- 4 Difficult Sounds for English Speakers
- 4 Foreign-Language TV Shows to Binge
- 4 Harvest Season Festivals Around the World
- 4 ways intermediate speakers can have advanced conversations
- 4 Ways That People Around the World Celebrate Summer
- 4 Ways Website Translation Will Help Improve Your Business
- 40 Business Acronyms and Business Abbreviations You Should Know
- 5 Careers for Foreign Language Professionals
- 5 Difficult Words to Translate
- 5 Fascinating Facts About American Sign Language (ASL)
- 5 Fascinating Facts About Multilingual Countries
- 5 Fascinating Facts About the Comanche Language
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- 5 Fascinating Language Facts: Balochi
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- 5 Language Museums to Explore Around the World
- 5 Languages Facing Extinction
- 5 More Difficult Words to Translate
- 5 Must-See TED Talks on Language
- 5 Steps to Become a Professional Translator
- 5 Surprising Facts About Countries with English as an Official Language
- 5 Things You Should Know About the Foreign Language Proficiency Bonus (FLPB)
- 5 Tips For Learning a New Language
- 6 Different Calendars Around the World
- 6 Major Moments in Translation and Interpretation History
- 7 Amazing International Radio Stations to Explore
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: Arika Okrent Follows Her Curiosity
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: Bernard Comrie Explores World Languages to Answer the Unanswerable
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: David Crystal, OBE, FBA
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: Dr. Farooq Kperogi on “Glocal” English
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: Framing the Issue with Dr. Julie Sweetland
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: John McWhorter Scales the “Mt. Everest” of Russian
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: Scott McGinnis
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: Steven Pinker Doesn’t Speak Motherese
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: University of Cambridge Professor Henriëtte Hendriks on Language Acquisition
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: Vyvyan Evans Shares the Bloody Secret Life of Theories
- 7 Questions to a Linguist: William Labov and the False Idols of Language
- 7 Ways to Reduce Your Language Testing Anxiety
- 8 Examples of Outdated Slang We Should Bring Back
- 8 of the Longest Words in English
- 8 Unique Careers for Translators and Interpreters
- A Brief History of English Punctuation
- A Brief History of Sign Language Interpretation
- A Brief Overview of Several Speech-Language Disorders
- A Call Center Story
- A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Language Resuscitation
- A Cup o’ Joe and a Heart Attack on a Rack, Please – The Delicious History of American Diner Lingo
- A Dingo Stole My Language: World in Words Podcast
- A Discussion About Interpreter Ethics and Confidentiality around the Helsinki Summit
- A Ghoulish Season
- A Guide to Medical Translation Services
- A Key to All Languages: the Rosetta Project
- A Linguist’s Introduction to Tone
- A Note on Arabic Literacy and Translation
- A Note on Hmong Language and Culture
- A Poem Translated Into Any Other Name
- A Space Between Souls: Aviya Kushner on Literary Translation
- A Woman by any other Address: Ben Zimmer and The Origin of Ms.
- Accent Program Information: The Hows and Whys of Accent Reduction
- Ad Translation: When Good Campaigns Go Bad
- Aid Atlanta Presents 2nd Annual HIV/AIDS Benefit Concert
- All for Love: How Pediatric Medical Interpreting Changed My Mind
- All the other Interpreters Do It
- ALTA Awarded DIA Contract
- ALTA Completes California Court Interpreting Study
- ALTA Completes Study of Court Interpreter Exams
- ALTA Introduces Multilingual and Multiethnic Market Research Services
- ALTA Language Services Becomes An Employee-Owned Company
- ALTA Language Sevices: ISO Certified Translation Quality Management System
- ALTA Partners with AMN Healthcare to Expand Language Testing
- ALTA Seeking Iraqi-Arabic Linguists
- ALTA Seeks Korean Linguists
- ALTA Seeks Spanish Linguists
- ALTA Sponsored Track Cycling Team Gets Some Press!
- ALTA Teams with Service Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business
- American Dialect Society Names ‘Bailout’ Word of the Year for 2008
- American English Pronunciation Lesson: U.S. States and Cities
- American Pronunciation Lesson: A Visit to the Doctor
- Americans have a bias against Southern Accents – even if they have one
- An Alaskan University Will Offer Free Alaska Native Languages Classes Soon
- An International Survey of Spooks: From Baba Yaga to El Hombre del Saco
- An Interpreter’s Role – and Risks – During a Pandemic
- An Orderly Rage: Russians Protest the Parliamentary Elections
- Arabic Language Testing: Dealing with Diglossia and Other Issues
- Arbitrary Sounds? Don’t Be Saussure
- Are Translators and Interpreters Part of the “Gig Economy?”
- Are you Fluent in Body Language?
- Arousing Word Origins:The Story of the World’s Sexiest Philologist
- Astronomy Turns 400!
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Baby Sign Language
- Banana, Rodeo, Thug and 15 Other Everyday Words That Weren’t Always English
- Baseball, In Translation
- Before Baby Talk, Baby Thought: New Study on Language Recognition in Infants
- Behind-the-Language: Summer Sports
- Bento: The Japanese Art of Lunch
- Best iPhone Dictionary Apps
- Best Language Blogs 2010: The results are in…
- Best Language Learning Methods
- Best Non-English-Language Films at the Golden Globes
- Beyond Halloween: 5 Global October Holidays
- Beyond Language: The Global Problem of Water Access and Sanitation
- Beyond Txt | Crowdsourcing With txteagle
- Beyond Words 2010 Quarterly Round Up
- Beyond Words 2010 Summer Round Up
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 1
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 10
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 11
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 12
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 13 The Language News Report
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 14 The Language News Report
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 2
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 3
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 5
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 6
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 7
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 8
- Beyond Words Podcast: Episode 9
- Beyond Words Round Up
- Bilingual Pay Differential Benefits
- Bilingualism in the Workplace
- Birthday Greetings and Well-Wishes in Different Languages
- Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the Language of Commercial “Holidays”
- Brexit Won’t Force English Out of the EU
- Buffalax: Best Neologism of 2008
- California Language Archive Gives Great Insight into America’s Indigenous Languages
- California Passes Medical Interpreter Law
- Can Accent Reduction Training Increase a Speaker’s Credibility?
- Can Animals Talk?
- Can Humor Help Language Learners?
- Can Mushrooms Speak to Each Other? Scientists Think it’s Possible.
- Can Poetry be Translated?
- Can Thinking in a Foreign Language Reduce Our Decision-Making Biases?
- Can Untranslatable Words Make Us Happier?
- Canada Considers Mandatory Language Tests for Immigrants
- Catcher in the Rye in Translation
- Celebrating Language and Education: World Languages Day and International Students’ Day
- Celebrating Scottish Gaelic Culture and Language: The Royal National Mod (Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail)
- Chew on this, Whorf-Haters
- Chew the Fat: A Look at Cockney Rhyming Slang
- China Daily Censors Obama’s Speech
- Cinco de Mayo: A Minor Mexican Holiday Turned Major American Drinking Day
- Common Medical Terms in Spanish and How to Use Them
- Corporeal Etymologies: A Linguistic Look at the Body by Way of the Germanic and Romance Languages
- Could All Languages Have Originated in Africa?
- Could Texting Be Making Us Linguistically Smarter?
- Countries Who Lunch
- Cracking the Buzz: An Ultimate Guide on Technical Translation Services
- Crowdsourcing Endangered Languages
- Cryptozoology – Weird Word of the Week
- Cultural Protectionism: World Cinema and Its Discontents
- Currywurst: Language History in Every Bite
- Dancing over dueling: How English metaphors make arguments a matter of war
- Days of the Week Word Origins & Etymologies
- Dead Cat Bounce: How the Language we use Affects the Financial Environment
- Deaf Culture and Sign Language
- Define This: Dictionaries in the News
- Devil’s in the Details: New Book Looks into the World of Pronouns
- Dictionary of American Regional English Completed After Five Decades
- Did a Bad Translation Influence the Bombing of Hiroshima?
- Did You Know There’s an International Language Award?
- Do Accent Reduction Classes Work?
- Do language and culture impact the way we take turns talking?
- Do Language Learning Apps Work?
- Does Artificial Intelligence Process Language with Bias?
- Does Fairness Translate?: An Economist and a Linguist Delve into the Cross-Cultural Variations of What We Consider Fair
- Does Fast-Track Language Learning Really Work?
- Does language change how you perceive colors?
- Does Loving a Word Make it Real?Erin Mckean on Lexicography
- Does the language we speak shape the way we think?
- Don’t Make This Mistake! 20 False Cognates
- Don’t Miss The Keirin ~ Saturday May 9th!
- Don’t Go Trusting Me Too Much, Kid: The Language of Westerns
- Dubbing Fails for Popular Hollywood Films (and one surprising hit)
- Dying Languages: David Harrison on Language and Intellectual Scarcity
- Edith Grossman on the Art of Translation
- EEG Study Examines the Brain as it Skips Semantics
- Egregious English: 20 Commonly Misused English Words and Phrases
- Eight travel destinations where English alone won’t cut it
- Election Day Etymologies!
- Encounters at the End of Language
- Endangered Language Watch: Macanese
- Endangered Language Watch: Salish
- Endangered Language Watch: Shiyeyi
- Endangered Language Watch: The Discovery of the Koro Language in the Himalayas
- Endangered Languages List: 10 Languages Facing Extinction
- English Gaming Words Like “Streamer” and “eSport” Banned in France
- English May Discourage Students from Learning a New Language
- English Pronunciation Lesson for Health Care Professionals
- English Pronunciation Lesson: Telephone Conversation
- Esperanto – The Language of International Peace
- Essential Phrases to Know When Traveling to a French-speaking Country
- Etymology in Process
- Etymology of “Barbarian”
- Etymology of “Campaign”
- Etymology of “Chocolate”
- Etymology of “Companion”
- Etymology of “Economy”
- Etymology of “Quarantine”
- Etymology of “Taboo”
- Etymology of Clothing (From Shoes to Coats)
- Etymology of Cocktails and Spirits
- Etymology of Common Legal Terms
- Etymology of Dignity
- Etymology of Halloween
- Etymology of Heavy Metal
- Etymology of Inauguration
- Etymology of Stockholder
- Etymology of Ten U.S. Cities
- Etymology of the Cosmos
- Etymology of Yule
- Evaluating Machine Translation:The Present and Future of Multilingual Search
- Everything You Need to Know About the Upcoming Tokyo Olympics
- Exploring the Mystery of Speech and Language
- Fictional Languages in Film:The Linguists Behind Na’vi, Sindarin, Klingon and Ulam
- Fighting an illness, losing a battle: Do war metaphors impact patient experiences?
- Five English Grammar Rules You Never Knew You Knew
- Five Tax-Related Words with (Surprisingly) Interesting Origins
- Flex Your Mice? The Surprising Etymology of “Muscle”
- Flood 2009
- Foreign Words You Already Know: 5 English Language Cognates
- Fourth-Annual Conference on Language Immersion Education, October 18-20
- Free English to Spanish Translation Resource
- Free Translation: A Good Place to Start
- Free Word Stress Lessons!
- Friars, Monkeys and Coffee? The Interesting Etymology of Cappuccinos
- Frogs Don’t Say Ribbit, So Why do We? How Languages Represent Animal Sounds
- From Dream to Reality: MLK Translation Challenge
- From Head to Toe, Speaking Another Language is Good for You
- Funny Talk: 5 Comedy Sketches about Language
- Games Can Enhance Language Learning
- Getting to know Thais Barboni do Prado
- Getting Your (Interpreter) Foot in the Door
- Global Success Centers Selects ALTA Language Services
- Global Warming vs Climate Change: A Blog Action Day Word Discussion
- Going Public: The Evolution of a Common Term
- Google Translate, Friend or Foe? Ask Vimeo
- Google Translation: Man vs. Machine II
- Guest Bloggers Wanted
- Haitian Creole In Translation: Medical Phrase Pronunciation Guide
- Happy Hanukkah! or Chanukah! or Chanukkah?:How to Spell The Festival of Lights
- Happy International Translation Day!
- Haute Culture Books: Bringing Untranslated Classics to English Readers
- HCAHPS Scores for Hospitals: Where the Opportunity for Improvement Lies
- Health Scare! 20 Phobias of the Health Care Debate
- Hegan: The New Male Vegan
- Heritage Speaker vs Native Speaker – What’s the Difference?
- Hmong Hunting in Translation
- Holidays Bring Out Spirits and Conspiracies
- Holistic Approach to Accent Reduction
- How College Graduates Can Benefit from Learning a Foreign Language
- How Did That Register? Five Levels of Formality in Language
- How did the #MeToo hashtag become #RiceBunny in China?
- How Did the Months Get Their Names?
- How Do Linguists Feel About Emojis?
- How Does Diet Shape Language? New Study Links Diet Changes to How We Pronounce “F” and “V”
- How Does Language Impact Disaster Relief?
- How Does the Sound of a Word Relate to Its Meaning?
- How has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Children’s Language Development?
- How I Learned the Word Careless
- How is English Used as a Lingua Franca Today?
- How Much Money Do Interpreters Make?
- How Much Money Do Translators Make?
- How Nicaraguan Sign Language Is Solving Linguistic Mysteries
- How Not to Flirt in French: 10 Pick-up Lines to Avoid when Traveling in Paris
- How NOT to Flirt in German: The Return of the Poly-flirt
- How Strong and Multilingual Communication Can Boost HCAHPS Scores
- How the Battle over Language is Shaping Russo-Ukrainian Relations
- How to Build a Language Strategy for Companies Expanding to Canada
- How to choose a translation company
- How to Conduct Language Testing for Employment
- How to Conduct Language Testing for Employment
- How to Create a Bilingual Pay Differential Policy
- How to Increase Your Book Sales with Accurate Literary Translations
- How to learn more about another culture without traveling
- How to Raise a Bilingual Child
- How to Toast in 20 Languages
- How to Translate a Joke
- How to Translate a Proverb
- How to Translate Company Slogans without Landing on a “Top 10 Worst” List
- How to Unify Global Offices with Corporate Language Training
- How to Use a Zoom Interpreter for Remote Meetings
- How Translation Services Work
- HR Compliance Translation Services
- Humor in the Unexpected: The Bulgarian House of Humor and Satire
- Icelander Turns to Translation to Survive Economic Downturn
- IMIA Publishes Guide for Medical Translation
- Improper Korean Translation Causes National Embarrassment
- In Honor of Bastille Day: The Origin of the Baguette
- In review of code-switching, the linguistic practice that both becomes and betrays us
- Incredible Etymologies: Robot
- Innovations in ALTA’s Language Services for Healthcare Organizations Ensure Effective Communication
- Interjection Junction
- International Claus: Santa Traditions from Around the World
- International Cursing: A Look at Cuss Words in Different Languages
- International Mother Language Day 2013: The Book
- International Translation Day
- Interview with Linguist and Author Dr. Michael Erard
- Interview with Translator Aaron Maddox: Paths to Success in Translation Part II
- Is Body Language Universal?
- Is English Killing Linguistic Diversity?
- Is it easier to learn a language when you’re young?
- Is Japanese a Tonal Language?
- Is learning math harder in English?
- Is Machine Translation Ready to Replace Human Translators?
- Is over the phone interpreting the new norm in healthcare?
- Is There a Critical Period for Language Learning?
- It’s Hard to Tie My Shoes
- Japanese Keirin ~ Sprinting Across Culture
- Kana: The Elegance of Japanese Writing
- La Malinche: Translator or Traitor
- Language and Culture Book Recommendation:The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- Language and Health Care Reform:ALTA and Kaiser Permanente Breaking Cultural Barriers
- Language and Politics: Palin Refudiates Critics
- Language as Intuitive Process: Second-Language Acquisition and Children
- Language as Tool of Political Power: The Threat of Cantonese Extinction
- Language Assessments Match Patients to Savvy Doctors
- Language Barriers Impede Economic Progress
- Language Barriers in Healthcare Access
- Language Change and Transportation: Debating Sharing the Road
- Language in the Arab World: More Thoughts on Arab Literacy and Translation
- Language of the Oil Spill
- Language Photographs from the Flickr Commons
- Language Test for Immigrants Causes a Stir Amongst English Soccer Fans
- Language Testing – When to Customize
- Language Testing for Bilingual Employees
- Language Testing for Education
- Language Testing for Immigration
- Language Testing: How Test Validity Works
- Language Translation: Man versus Machine
- Languages Across the World
- Lardcore: Southern Food, but Southern Style?
- Latino Children and the American Education System
- Laughs in Translation: New Web Series Looks for the Funny in Every Country
- Learn to Speak English with a Reduced Accent: Accent Reduction Training
- Learning English across the Globe: Results of the 2011 English Proficiency Index
- Learning Hebrew in the Gaza Strip
- Lessons from a Graduate Student in Translation
- Lessons from a Graduate Student in Translation: Consecutive Interpretation
- Lessons from a Graduate Student in Translation: Language and the Military
- Lessons from a Graduate Student in Translation: Market Overview
- Lessons from a Graduate Student in Translation: Simultaneous Interpretation
- Lessons from a Graduate Student in Translation: Tasks of the Translator
- Lessons from a Graduate Student in Translation: Trials and Tribulations
- Linguist Reveals How We Totes Abbreve
- Lions and Tigers and Grolars?
- Literacy in India & the Jaipur Literature Festival
- Literature in Translation: Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize 2010
- Looking at Globish: A Note on the Impact of English
- Low-Hanging Buzzwords: The Etymology of 3 Corporate Favorites
- Lupercalia: An Alternative to Valentine’s Day?
- Machine Translation Post Editing in Healthcare
- Making Sense of Sense
- Malaysia: Language and Political Unrest
- Mambo Italiano: Musical Terms of Italian Origin
- Maximus Burn: 5 Latin Insults for the Enjoyment of the Graduating Class
- Medical Interpreter Language Assessment Test Information
- Meet the Schwa, the Best Friend You Never Knew You Had
- Mixed Emoticons
- More Gift Ideas for Language Lovers
- Morse Code . _ . | _ _ _ | _ . _ . | _ . _ | …
- Multilingual Translation and AI: Merging Culture and Technology
- Multiple-Choice Test Development 101
- Must We Translate? Rilke in Translation
- Mythical Baidu Deity | The Grass Mud Horse
- Naming Cars: The Etymology of Automobiles
- Naming House and Home: Word Origins
- Native Tongues: Speaking in Estonia
- New Netherlands Translation Project
- New Resource For Legal Translators
- New Study of Phonemes Sheds Light on the Roots and Origins of Language
- New Year’s Traditions Around the World
- New Zealand Slang
- Norm-Referenced vs. Criterion-Referenced Testing
- Not So French? The Possible Etymologies of the French Fry
- November is Native American Heritage Month
- Now Playing: 20 Best Foreign Language Horror Films
- Now Playing: Foreign Language Films at the Theater, August 2010
- Now Playing: Foreign Language Films at the Theater, July 2010
- Now Playing: Foreign Language Films at the Theater, June 2010
- Now Playing: Foreign Language Films at the Theater, May 2010
- Now Playing: Foreign Language Films at the Theater, October 2010
- Now Playing: Foreign Language Films at the Theater, September 2010
- Number of Languages Remains A Mystery
- O Rio? 4 Places in the Americas Named By Mistake
- Obrigado Mr. Cruise
- Ode to a Dawdler: A Note On The History Of Procrastination
- Oh Thou, Where Art Thou?
- On Defining: Do Good Fences Make Good Meanings?
- Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders: you may never have heard of them, but you probably know somebody that has one.
- Overwhelming Politesse: Does English Tread More Softly Than Other Languages?
- Painting Tongues for a Living
- Palates in Translation
- Paraprosdokian: Beyond a Punchline or a Turn of Phrase
- Parsing the Peloton: Language and le Tour de France
- Paths to Professional Translation: Interview with Amanda Williams
- Paths to Success in Medical Interpretation: An Interview with Professional Interpreter and Breaking Boundaries in Healthcare Instructor, Stephanie Wiley
- Paths to Success in Translation: Interview with Translator Mary Maloof-Fleck
- Pays d’Oc, Pays d’Oïl, Pays de Sì: A History of Romance Languages Through the Word Yes
- Peace
- Periodic Table Manners, Wordnik.comand other Notes on Language from Erin Mckean
- Permacrisis is The 2022 Word of The Year
- Photo of the Week: Iranian Election Protesters
- Photo of the Week: Michael Jackson in Berlin
- Photo of the Week: Sri Lankan Monkeys
- Photo of the Week: Statue of Liberty
- Photo of the Week: Tractor Art for Obama
- Photo of the Week: Wax Hemingway in Paris
- Pidgins and Creoles: The Formation of Nonstandard Language
- Poetry in Translation: Revolutionary Verse?
- Pomegranates and Hand Grenades
- Prairie Dog Talk
- Presidential Rhetoric at the 2012 RNC and DNC
- Professional Translation Services Protect the Safety and Confidentiality of Your Information
- Psychometricians: What They Are and What They Do
- Pun Intended: 10 Puns in Translation
- Quixote in Quechua
- Rampant Acronyms A National Travesty (RANT) : A BIT BASIC Approach
- Recent Studies Examine Categories of Language and Thought
- Recycling Around the World
- Revisiting William Safire’s ‘On Language’
- Russian Translation: Going Beyond Words
- Salman Rushdie to Speak at Emory on the Subject of Adaptation
- Sausages for Freedom
- Scholarships and Grants for Language and Translation Students
- Schwa Fire Launches Kickstarter Campaign
- SDS and MSDS Translation
- Seal of Biliteracy Endorsement
- Self-Care Practices Around the World
- Seven Foreign Language Horror Films to Watch for Halloween
- Shana Tova! The Language of Rosh Hashanah
- Sharking
- Shemps, MacGuffins, and Alan Smithee: 10 Movie Terms You’ve Just Got to Read About
- Short, Shorter, Shortest: A Note on the Origin of Shorthand
- Should Dying Languages Be Saved?
- Simultaneous Interpretation at Nuremburg
- Simultaneous Interpretation: Interview with TEDx Interpreter Lu Ye
- Six Lessons from a Polyglot to Help You Live Your Best Life in 2019
- Skeuomorphism in Modern Design: Apple’s Overhaul Sheds Light on Fascinating Concept
- Socio-Cultural Interactions – Small Talk in the U.S.A., Russia, and Beyond
- Soldier Slang: Top 10 New Fightin’ Words from the Front Lines
- Sowing the Seeds of… a Family Production Responsibility System?
- Spanish in America: Beyond Words
- Spanish Language Proficiency Levels
- Spanish Words with Completely Different Meanings in Different Countries
- Speak Pleasure: Why Some Words Are Fun To Say
- Speaking Other Languages in Alabama
- Speech Perception: Overcoming a Hidden Obstacle for Language Learners
- Spinning Languages: Foreign Language Albums, August 2010
- Spinning Languages: Foreign Language Albums, July 2010
- Spinning Languages: Foreign Language Albums, June 2010
- Spinning Languages: Foreign Language Albums, November 2010
- Spinning Languages: Foreign Language Albums, September 2010
- Spoken Like a True Native: New Study Examines Brain Function in Second-Language Processing
- Spoonerisms: William Archibald Spooner and his Infamous Fain Brarts
- Spotlight on UCLA’s Language Materials Project and Modern Ways to Tackle an Ancient Task
- Studying Arabic: Second-Language Acquisition Spotlight
- Stuttering: Symptoms, Causes, and Perspectives in Treatment
- Succeeding Globally Through International Education and Engagement: U.S. Department of Education Unveils its 2012-16 International Strategy
- Summer Scoop: The Etymology of Ice Cream Sundae
- Tactile Preference: New Study Examines the QWERTY Effect
- Taking Time Off Learning to Learn a Language
- Talk Like an Animal
- Teaching American English Pronunciation to Japanese Students
- Teaching English Abroad: Taking Advantage of ESL Programs to Traverse the Globe
- Ten Interesting Animal Etymologies
- Ten Most Difficult Words in the World to Translate
- Texting Endangered Languages
- That’s When the Dame Walked In: The Language of Film Noir
- The “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks “Blog”
- The 10 Most Useful Languages to Learn
- The 3 Most Important Issues in Translating Legal Documents
- The 5 Easiest Languages for English Speakers to Learn
- The Air up There: Elevation and Phonology
- The Alicia Gordon Award for Word Artistry in Translation
- The Autumnal Point or the First Point of Libra: Language of the Equinox
- The Benefits of Bilingual Pay Differentials in Healthcare: A Guide for Healthcare Workers
- The Benefits of Flexing Mental Muscle
- The Best Languages to Study for Government Jobs
- The Cherokee Language: Can it be Translated?
- The Colonization of the English Language
- The Cream Christ Connection
- The Danger of False Cognates in Healthcare
- The Etymologies of February and Lent
- The Etymology and Meaning of NOËL
- The Etymology and Origin of Clichés
- The Etymology of Advent
- The Etymology of Cowboy
- The Etymology of Philosopher
- The Etymology of Popular Sports
- The Etymology of X-Mas
- The Fallacy of Proper Grammar
- The Forbidden Fruit: Etymology of Apple
- The Great Hack
- The Importance of Cultural Competency
- The Importance of Interpreters in Healthcare
- The Importance of Language Testing
- The Importance Of Language Testing in Healthcare
- The Importance of Understanding Cultural Differences as an Interpreter
- The Incredible Mental Agility of Interpreters
- The Language and Casting of Oscar-Nominated Roma
- The Language Divide: Will Elderly U.S. Latinos Get Proper Health Care?
- The Language of Beer
- The Language of COVID-19: Masculine or Feminine?
- The Language of Liqueur
- The Language of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks
- The Language of Travel Documents
- The Language of Wine
- THE LANGUAGE SLEUTH, episode 1: A Letter From Middle Earth
- The Languages of Taiwan: Past, Present, and Future
- The Law, Language, and Linguaphobia: New Jersey’s DWI Language Ruling
- The Linguists to be Broadcast on PBS
- The Longest English Words (Video)
- The Manx Express: Part II of Language and le Tour de France
- The Meaning and Roots of U.S. State Names
- The Metaphor Next Door: Metaphor is Ordinary Language
- The Modes of Court Interpreting
- The Most Amusing Surnames in the World
- The Most Beautiful Words in English
- The Most Popular Foreign Languages: Foreign Language Enrollment in U.S. Schools
- The Most Popular Words of the Decade
- The Origins of 10 Interjections
- The Patients Who Stay with You
- The Power of Words in a Pandemic
- The Precautions that Help Protect Hospital Interpreters from COVID-19
- The Problematic Language of Corn Sugar
- The Pros and Cons of Crowdsourcing
- The Rise of Invented Languages, From Klingon to Dothraki
- The Role of Certified Translators in Medical Document Translation Accuracy
- The Scots Language Bible, Handwritten and Delivered
- The Soul of Food
- The Story of Olé
- The Translator Song: 5000 Words by Sharon Neeman
- The Ugliest Words in English
- The UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
- The Value of Independent Language Testing
- The Year in Language News: An Undefinitive Smattering from 2010
- Tmesis: How Ned Flanders and Snoop Dogg Changed English
- To Behave, or not to Behave
- To Thank or Not to Thank? Expressions of Gratitude Around the World
- Tokyo and Singapore Emerge as World’s Safest Cities for 2019
- Top 10 Languages Tested
- Top 10 Languages Tested in 2011
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