Posts Tagged ‘languages’

27
Mar
2019

translation headphones

categories: e-learning, educational technology, information technology

Google’s translation headphones are here, and they’re going to start a war

Douglas Adams’ in-ear translator from Hitchhiker’s Guide is becoming a reality. But knowing what people are really saying could be disastrous.

 https://medium.com/the-guardian/googles-translation-headphones-are-here-and-they-re-going-to-start-a-war-dcae3603820a
Shuly Wintner, associate professor of computer science at the University of Haifa, quotes an early example of computer mistranslation in his 2005 introduction to computational linguistics. “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak,” was put through Altavista into Russian, he says. “The vodka is excellent but the meat is lousy” may well have been true, but it almost certainly wasn’t what the writer was looking for.

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18
Aug
2016

languages spoken in the US

categories: information technology, instructional technology

14 Maps That Show What Languages People Speak In The U.S.

The Census Bureau maps show the areas of the United States where large concentrations of people speak a language at home other than English.

posted on Aug. 6, 2013, at 2:09 p.m.

Hunter Schwarz

Hunter Schwarz
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/14-maps-that-show-what-languages-people-speak-in-the-us?utm_term=.fm6GXnJLg#.yovN8PzDw

An interactive map released by the Census Bureau Tuesday tracks where in the country there is a high concentration of people who speak a language other than English at home. According to the data, 58% of U.S. residents age 5 and older speak English “very well” and also speak a language other than English at home.

Nearly two-thirds of people who speak a language other than English at home speak Spanish (37.6 million). The third most-spoken language is Chinese (2.9 million), followed by Tagalog (1.6 million), Vietnamese (1.4 million), French (1.3 million), German (1.1 million), and Korean (1.1 million).

That state with the highest percentage of people who speak another language than English at home is California, with 44%. West Virginia has the lowest, with 2%. Laredo, Texas, is the metro area with the highest percentage, with 92%.