Communication between people who don't share a language can prove challenging. Learning a new one is an option, but that's a time-consuming and potentially costly solution. Besides, what if you just ...

A non-Japanese-speaking first-time visitor used Apple’s new in-ear translation feature to connect with locals at bars, sushi ...

It takes between 600 and 2,200 hours to learn a foreign language. And while I wish I had time to study the vast rainbow of languages I’ve encountered in my travels, it’s sadly impossible. Thankfully, ...

One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. As ...

In the last year I have been doing business in China, and as I prepared for my second trip over I decided that it was time to try out Franklin's TGA-490 12-Language Speaking Global Translator. Priced ...

Literary translator Sean Bye invites us into his process – and talks with fellow translators from Polish, including Marta Dziurosz, David French, Scotia Gilroy, Karen Kovacik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones and ...