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President of Gambia said: “We are going to speak our own language.”

Baidu has updated its translation app to include object recognition but produces some very strange results.

A text has been translated that mentions the location of the lost Ark of the Covenant

scientists in Sweden and Finland are close to developing a dog-to-English translator

Google Translate makes it easier for companies to offer translated content to customers – but many companies, organisations get it wrong.

Research shows that patients with no or limited English are at greater risk of medical error or misdiagnosis if they are not provided with an interpreter.

Arsene Wenger's dedication to language has now been recognised in a poll voted for by Guardian readers to choose a public language champion for 2013.

Swahili is set to become the official language of five major countries in East Africa as part of an effort to improve business and community links in the region.

Expanding your business abroad is a major undertaking, even for the most experienced entrepreneurs and marketing professionals....

William Shakespeare is without a doubt one of the greatest writers of the English language. This article looks at Shakespear's influence on modern English and pronunciation.

Trademarks of logos, designs and other visual aspects of corporate branding are accepted but what about the translation of branded expressions into other languages?

The English language consists of a large amount of eponyms. An eponym is a person or a thing after which a specific discovery, place or era is named.

Old English is an early form of the English language and dates from the mid-5th to late 11th century A.D. It was written and spoken by the Anglo-Saxons

Coca-Cola has been forced to cancel a Canadian advertising campaign that combined randomly generated English and French words and displayed them on the inside of bottle tops after an woman in Edmonton, Canada received one that said “You Retard.”

Standard English started as a regional dialect that developed in the southeast of England.

Swansea Council officials responsible for tremendous translation blunder on Welsh road sign.

The local government of Karnataka, a state in south west India bordering Goa and Kerala, is campaigning for the local language of Tulu to be recognised as an official language.

Are fan translations (translation of media, mostly computer games, films, books and music, from one language to another) ethical?

Google Real-time Spoken Language Translator in Development. Google has confirmed that it is working on a real-time spoken language translator.

We've translated Keep Calm and Carry On into loads of different languages! They look great and are very funny, so take a look and share away.