As anyone who has ever studied Chinese knows, it’s an onerous language to learn–especially on an empty stomach. That’s where Waygo comes in. The translation iOS app makes life easier for travelers by ...

How to have a real-time video conference without speaking the same language. — -- Skype Translator has made a huge stride closer to its goal of allowing everyone in the world to be able to ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For those who travel around the world, Bing Translator is an indispensable app for not feeling ...

At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the ...

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John Yee was just 19 when the Japanese began attacking his hometown of Kunming, China, almost 70 years ago. The air-raid sirens would sound and the people would run for cover, defenseless against what ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Although you may never have heard the name Lin Shu, it should be featured in every book on literature history. Shu, a self-taught scholar, ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Sidney Shapiro, a famed U.S.-born translator who was one of the few Westerners to gain Chinese citizenship and become a member of a high-level parliamentary body, died on the ...

Back in 2013, a Chinese publishing house wanted to publish a Chinese-version of Mefisto written by John Banville from Ireland, so they hired Jin Xiaoyu, a one-eyed translator who had read every single ...

Country girl: I grew up in the village of Dauntsey, in rural southwest England, where my parents were farmers. At the age of 12, I was sent to a boarding school in south Wiltshire. I was rather lonely ...