Liberal Arts Latin American Studies Option (Director: Ana Maria Hernandez) has re-designed its curriculum and program goals as part of the “Enriching the Latin American Studies Program” project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) between …

Every country has a long, rich tradition of invoking supernatural threats in order to keep kids in line. What are figures equivalent to Boogeyman in English?…

The NYS Unified Court System is administering the Spanish Court Interpreter Exam on Friday, September 9, 2022 and Saturday, September 10, 2022. Only high school degree is required for this exam. The starting salary for the Court Interpreter is $57,166, …

EverUp Micro-Credentials are FREE, 100-hour online intensives that equip CUNY students with in-demand skills and provide a competitive boost at landing internships and entry-level roles at some of New York’s largest employers. Those who successfully completed the training will receive …

The NYS Court System is administering the Per Diem Court Interpreter Written Exams between June 19 and July 3, 2022. The pay rate for the Per Diem (freelance) Court Interpreter is $300 per day and $170 for a half day. …

The “Language Career Fair” brings students from various majors to inquire about the pertinence of languages in the job market. The guest participants represent fields as diverse as health, business, interpreting, law, education, finance, software development and export. The participants …

How to say “I love you” in different languages and cultures. A direct translation from “I love you” does not always work. Different cultures have different ways to express affection.

• “I LOVE YOU” (English)
• أحبك (Arabic)
• আমি তোমাকে ভালবাসি (Bengali)

Duolingo discusses the most popular second languages in the United States now. You probably can make a good guess about the most popular second language (Spanish), but you would never guess what the second most popular language is now.

The …

“I will never not tell nobody nothing about it” — that is a word-by-word translation of what Russians would say, meaning “I will never tell anybody anything about it.”

See this Mango blog entry for an interesting introduction to how …

An interesting corpus-based study by Wageningen University and Indiana University, showing that rationality declined in the past few decades while reasoning increased.

Quote: ‘the researchers found that words associated with reasoning, such as “determine” and “conclusion,” rose systematically beginning in …