Articles for Language Barriers

Watch: Archer Sheetal Devi celebrates Paralympics medal with mother
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Watch: Archer Sheetal Devi celebrates Paralympics medal with mother

India Today  

India’s rising para-archer, 17-year-old Sheetal Devi, expressed heartfelt gratitude to her mother after securing a bronze medal at the Paris Paralympics. Sheetal Devi clinched the bronze medal in the mixed team compound event alongside her partner, Rakesh Kumar. In early 2022, when I embarked on a new journey, Maa left behind the comfort of her village, and fearlessly embraced the …

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English is the common language of science. That comes at a cost for scientists and the planet
1 year, 3 months ago

English is the common language of science. That comes at a cost for scientists and the planet

ABC  

Tatsuya Amano knows how daunting it is to be surrounded by people speaking a foreign language in your workplace. "Being fluent in English is an absolutely necessary skill in trying to develop a career in science," says Dr Amano, an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Queensland. The cost of language barriers to science Important research on threatened species …

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Technologies can erase language barriers, say experts
1 year, 6 months ago

Technologies can erase language barriers, say experts

The Hindu  

Linguistic Society of India president Prof. G. Umamaheshwara Rao on Monday, June 19, said that language barriers are getting erased and there should not be a classification of languages as ancient or recent, classical or standard, and simple or complex. In his inaugural address at the Summer School in Computational Linguistics organised by the Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, …

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Justice Dept. settles with New Jersey county over ballot languages, highlighting widespread barrier
1 year, 7 months ago

Justice Dept. settles with New Jersey county over ballot languages, highlighting widespread barrier

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has reached a settlement with a New Jersey county over language barriers for Spanish-speaking voters, emphasizing a growing challenge for certain minority communities nationwide. Under the federal Voting Rights Act, communities must provide language assistance for voting if more than 5% of the voting-age citizens — or over 10,000 — have limited English proficiency. Arabic-speaking …

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Regional OTT Platforms Make a Big Splash Taking Local Stories Beyond Language Barriers
3 years, 5 months ago

Regional OTT Platforms Make a Big Splash Taking Local Stories Beyond Language Barriers

News 18  

Covid-19 pandemic has changed our lives in many ways and one of them is the way we watch films. OTT platforms are the new cinema halls for movie goers… we meant movies watchers – you don’t need to go anywhere now to watch films, other than from one room to another in your homes. OHO Gujarati, Hoichoi, Sun NXT, Aha …

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Zapotec in 90006, K’iche’ in 90057: New map highlights L.A.’s Indigenous communities
3 years, 5 months ago

Zapotec in 90006, K’iche’ in 90057: New map highlights L.A.’s Indigenous communities

LA Times  

It’s not the kind of Los Angeles County map people expect to see. “Much of what we see is Indigenous language speakers trying to get by in Spanish — that’s because a service provider is ignoring a request for interpreting, ignoring that person isn’t proficient in that language, or maybe it isn’t clear,” said Marisa Lundin, legal director of the …

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