AI is helping communities own and build vital tools for their minority languages – all without external funding.
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How do you put the past aside when you have no choice but to care for a parent who treated you badly?
Sylvie feels like her radical world only exists in the past and as she gets older her choices and world are shrinking.
These five books take readers through time and across Ukraine.
Translation of Ukraine’s literature serves as a means of cultural resistance by preserving and promoting knowledge of Ukraine.
AI translations push the crafted work of real translators – with qualifications, genuine language skills and experience – to the back of a very busy marketplace.
Some critics have bemoaned the flattening of a complex character. But Nolan’s film echoes a literary tradition of reimagining Circe as a survivor, a truth-teller and a figure of female empowerment.
AI translation can be fast, convenient and fluent. But that does not guarantee people will understand each other.
Translation is only part of the challenge for multinational companies. Words, slogans and symbols can take on entirely different meanings across cultures.
Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.
William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to breach: the poem.
Such is the writer’s love of repetition that a game of Murakami bingo resurfaces every time he publishes a new book.
Federal protections promise a fair trial in a language you understand, but for millions who speak lesser-known languages, courts can’t keep that promise.
There’s a difference between using a tool to assist you, and using one to replace cognitive effort.
Novelists and translators from Bulgaria to Brazil make up this this year’s impressive shortlist.
Cherokees across the US are working to revitalize their language.
Meticulously constructed and shot, this four part anthology series gets Murakami’s love of moving from the mundane to the ridiculous.
AI-fueled technologies make communicating in other languages easier than ever, but it still can’t replace the transformative value of learning a new language.
It took over a decade for the Hungarian novelist to be recognised in English-speaking countries.
Top contributors
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor of French and Translation, University of Exeter
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Tutor/Lecturer in English Literature, Dublin City University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for the Humanities and Social Change, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Aberdeen
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AHRC-Techne PhD Candidate, Art and Design History, Kingston University
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Senior Research Associate in the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
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Full Professor of Translation Psychology and Wellbeing, The Open University
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Postdoctoral research fellow (Forensic Linguistics/ Language and Law), University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting at Macquarie University, Macquarie University
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Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Assistant Professor of Translation & Transcultural Studies, University of Warwick
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Director:Language Centre, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Paul Braterman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Hon. Research Fellow; Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, University of Glasgow