Metaglossia: The Translation World

"The translation pioneer's new dictionary offers clearer content and a cleaner experience to promote meaningful learning and literacy

 

NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Reverso, the global leader in online language tools, has expanded its pioneering translation platform with a disruptive new English dictionary for its website and apps: Reverso Define (https://dictionary.reverso.net/). Providing clear, concise definitions for over 500,000 meanings and growing, Reverso Define is built to make it easier for native and non-native users to understand English.

 

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Reverso Define's clear and clean dictionary entry for the complex noun "culture.”

"Our mission in creating Reverso Define is as clear as its new definitions: to help everyone grow their vocabulary and increase literacy in a fun and simple way," said Théo Hoffenberg, founder and CEO of Reverso. "Reverso Define is reimagining the dictionary as a digital-first companion, delivering quick, rich—and unlike chatbots—consistent information about English words, all just one click away and easily saved for deeper learning."

 

Combining the rigor of linguistics, power of data, best practices in education, and assurance of meticulous review, Reverso Define provides a host of AI-powered features:

 

Shorter definitions illustrated with real-world examples, context labels, and synonyms for every meaning

Comprehensive coverage: over 100,000 expressions and idioms, 5,000 abbreviations, and extensive slang, technical language, and more

Instant results for 98% of lookups, including inflected forms and phrases as headwords

Clickable links on every word in definitions for effortless exploration

Pronunciations for every definition, meaning, and example in American and British English

Images for 50,000+ meanings, especially high-frequency concrete nouns

Regular revision, with approximately 10,000 meanings upgraded each update

Immediate, cross-referenceable translation in Reverso's 25+ languages

Developed by Reverso's team of language specialists, data scientists, and engineers and backed by the company's nearly 30 years of innovation in language technology, Reverso Define offers a clean experience seamlessly integrated into Reverso's all-in-one language ecosystem.

 

Perfect for English as both a first and foreign language, Reverso Define enables teachers to easily create thematic and leveled word lists, which students can study using quizzes, flashcards, and multimodal listening and pronunciation practice tools. With one tap, everyday users get short and sweet definitions in a snap—whether reading articles, writing, emailing, texting, or watching videos online.

 

"Most of today's electronic dictionaries have evolved from traditional dictionaries. They were not created specifically for on-screen reading," said Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, member of the editorial board of Oxford Academic's International Journal of Lexicography and longtime contributor to renowned dictionaries. "Reverso is a new English dictionary designed to help you understand unfamiliar words and expressions with minimal disruption while concentrating on what you are reading."

 

Reverso Define is free and now available on the web (https://dictionary.reverso.net/) and app (https://context.reverso.net/translation/mobile-app/) as well as through Reverso's desktop downloads and browser extensions.

 

In June, Reverso released a new version of its award-winning app, Reverso Translate and Learn, the first of its kind able to be set as the default translator in devices running iOS 18.4 and later.

 

About Reverso

 

Reverso is a global leader in online translation and language tools, helping millions of people and professionals read, write, learn, and communicate across the world's languages. For over 100 language combinations, Reverso provides AI-powered contextual voice, image, text, and document translation and an all-in-one learning ecosystem with a top grammar checker and user-first English dictionary. Each month, it serves over 50 million active users on the web, 5 million app users, and 5 million users in corporate environments.

 

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Aug 12, 2025, 09:00 ET

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"Des chercheurs autochtones de différents coins du monde se servent de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) pour répondre aux besoins spécifiques de leurs nations et démontrent qu’elle peut être utilisée même dans des contextes culturels très éloignés de celui qui l’a vue naître.

« Après la génération qui a aujourd’hui entre 80 et 90 ans, il y aura très peu de personnes ayant grandi dans un environnement entièrement autochtone sur le plan linguistique. C’est donc crucial de préserver ce savoir », explique Jason Edward Lewis, professeur d’arts numériques à l’Université Concordia d’origine hawaïenne et samoane, qui envisage l’IA comme un moyen d’éviter la perte de ces héritages.

M. Lewis, qui s’attelle depuis 20 ans à intégrer les membres des premiers peuples dans les espaces virtuels, est également codirecteur d’Abundant Intelligences, un projet de recherche qui vise à développer des systèmes d’IA en collaboration avec six communautés au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Nouvelle-Zélande. Il était présent au premier rassemblement mondial sur les IA autochtones de l’Institut québécois d’intelligence artificielle Mila à la mi-juillet.

Cercles de parole, confection de bourses sacrées et chants traditionnels y accompagnaient les présentations d’experts internationaux animées autour de la pluralité d’usages et de méthodes proposés. Dans la lignée de la mission d’Abundant Intelligences, l’objectif de ce ralliement visait à « soutenir les connaissances ancestrales » et à « reconnaître la multiplicité de façons d’être intelligent dans le monde ».

C’est ce qu’ont tenté de faire les chercheurs à l’origine du projet Buffalo In Motion, par exemple, qui aspire à réintroduire le bison sur les terres ancestrales anichinabées en utilisant « les données de migration issues du suivi GPS et les données écologiques pour observer les bénéfices écologiques de leur retour ». Idem pour ceux qui sont à l’origine de la plateforme SAIGE, qui centralise la demande de bourses universitaires pour les candidats autochtones afin de les inciter à rester plus longtemps sur les bancs d’école en améliorant leur accès au financement.

Ces deux projets sont issus du programme « Éclaireurs autochtones en IA », une initiative pilotée par l’institut Mila et l’organisation Indspire, qui réunit depuis l’an dernier des chercheurs issus des Premières Nations, des Inuits et des Métis d’un bout à l’autre du Canada. Cette résidence d’été cible des candidatures autochtones afin d’inciter les nouveaux talents « à apprendre, à développer et à diriger l’évolution de l’IA ».

Un défi complexe
Michael Running Wolf, d’ascendance lakota, cheyenne et pied-noir, est cofondateur et architecte du projet appliqué de Mila First Languages AI Reality (FLAIR), qui revitalise les langues autochtones en recourant à l’IA et aux technologies immersives pour dynamiser leur enseignement. Un défi de taille, puisque plusieurs d’entre elles sont « polysynthétiques », à savoir que chacun de leurs mots combine de nombreux éléments de sens qui dépendent du contexte et de l’environnement immédiat dans lequel il est prononcé. M. Running Wolf cite l’exemple du mot « voiture », qui pourrait, selon la situation, devenir « la-voiture-rouge-au-nord-de-chez-moi-qui-appartient-à-mon-frère ».

Cette étendue de mots pratiquement infinie devient alors très complexe à intégrer aux principaux modèles d’IA qui traitent le langage, entraînés à reconnaître les langues indo-européennes.

À l’instar de Jason Edward Lewis, Michael Running Wolf ne croit pas que l’IA soit la formule magique qui permettra de « sauver » les langues autochtones d’une disparition certaine, bien qu’elle représente un véhicule utile à cet égard. Il appelle à une « réappropriation » des outils de l’IA pour collecter des données « et ensuite les utiliser pour revitaliser les langues », plutôt que de seulement les « préserver ».

Pallier la sous-représentation
Les communautés autochtones sont quasiment absentes du virage numérique et du paysage actuel de l’IA, bien qu’il existe quelques figures de proue. « Elles représentent environ 5 % de la population, mais environ 1 % de la main-d’œuvre numérique, et on estime que ce chiffre est inférieur dans le domaine de l’IA », souligne Lynnsey Chartrand, responsable des initiatives autochtones, des politiques publiques et de l’inclusion à l’institut de recherche Mila.

Le constat d’Elissa Strome, directrice générale de la stratégie pancanadienne en matière d’IA à l’Institut canadien de recherches avancées (CIFAR), est qu’il y a encore du pain sur la planche avant d’atteindre une certaine équité. « Il faut que ce débat soit beaucoup plus large, dans les universités et les laboratoires de recherche du pays. Je n’ai vu aucun exemple de grandes entreprises s’intéresser aux perspectives autochtones en IA. » Par contre, celle-ci observe depuis environ deux ans un nombre croissant de startups dirigées par des Autochtones dans ce domaine.

Une « tendance prometteuse » encouragée par M. Running Wolf, qui a grandi dans un village rural du Montana, où l’eau et l’électricité étaient intermittentes. « Créer une startup dans le Nord-du-Québec est difficile, car il n’y a pas d’Internet. Mais si vous commencez à dire : “Je vais créer une startup d’IA dans le Nord-du-Québec, mais il me faut d’abord Internet”, c’est facile à vendre. »"
Mariane Laporte
https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/science/908782/polyculture-ia-autochtones
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"The San Francisco–based Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) will hold its 2025 Day of Translation Festival at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction on September 18.

 

The event includes three free, livestreamed panels from noon to 5 p.m.: “Resistance Translation,” a reflection on how translation can help subvert dominant narratives; “Meeting the Present Moment,” on translators navigating cultural taboos and censorships; and “Interspecies Translation,” highlighting the languages of the animal and natural worlds.

 

Among the panelists are literary translators Susan Bernofsky, Anton Hur, and Chenxin Jiang. The day will culminate in a ticketed keynote conversation featuring novelists Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura.

 

Now in its sixth year, the Day of Translation Festival “connects readers of literary translation; literary translators at every stage of their careers; and anyone interested in the movement of ideas among languages, cultures, people, and places,” per the announcement from CAT, which is also home to Two Lines Press.

 

Registration is open now on the CAT website."

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5489

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Straker says its small language models offer faster, cheaper, and more accurate translations by focusing on industry-specific context rather than general language coverage.

"Small language models gain ground in AI translation
Straker says its small language models offer faster, cheaper, and more accurate translations by focusing on industry-specific context rather than general language coverage.

Small language models are emerging as a serious challenger to large, general-purpose AI in translation, offering faster turnaround, lower costs, and greater accuracy for specific industries and language pairs.

Straker, an ASX-listed language technology firm, claims its Tiri model family can outperform larger systems by focusing on domain-specific understanding and terminology rather than broad coverage.

Tiri delivers higher contextual accuracy by training on carefully curated translation memories and sector-specific data, cutting the need for expensive human post-editing. The models also consume less computing power, benefiting finance, healthcare, and law industries.

Straker integrates human feedback directly into its workflows to ensure ongoing improvements and maintain client trust.

The company is expanding its technology into enterprise automation by integrating with the AI workflow platform n8n.

It adds Straker’s Verify tool to a network of over 230,000 users, allowing automated translation checks, real-time quality scores, and seamless escalation to human linguists. Further integrations with platforms like Microsoft Teams are planned.

Straker recently reported record profitability and secured a price target upgrade from broker Ord Minnett. The firm believes the future of AI translation lies not in scale but in specialised models that deliver translations that are both fluent and accurate in context."
12 Aug 2025
https://dig.watch/updates/small-language-models-gain-ground-in-ai-translation
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"OpenAI's GPT-5: India may become our largest market, says CEO Sam Altman

 

India, currently OpenAI's second-largest market, could soon become its largest globally, CEO Sam Altman said on Wednesday as the company unveiled its next-generation model, GPT-5, which will be available free to all users.

 

Hailing India as an "incredibly fast-growing" market, Altman noted the remarkable pace at which Indian citizens and businesses are adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI).

 

"India is our second-largest market in the world after the US, and it may well become our largest market. It's incredibly fast-growing, but what users are doing with AI, what citizens of India are doing with AI, is really quite remarkable.

 

"We're especially focused on bringing products to India, working with local partners to make AI work great for India and make it more affordable for people across the country.

 

"We've been paying a lot of attention here given the rate of growth and I am excited to come for a visit in September," Altman said during a media briefing.

 

OpenAI on Thursday announced the launch of GPT-5, describing it as its "best model yet for coding and agentic tasks".

 

"We're releasing GPT-5 in three sizes in the API -- gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-5-nano -- to give developers more flexibility to trade off performance, cost, and latency. While GPT-5 in ChatGPT is a system of reasoning, non-reasoning, and router models, GPT-5 in the API platform is the reasoning model that powers maximum performance in ChatGPT.

 

"Notably, GPT-5 with minimal reasoning is a different model than the non-reasoning model in ChatGPT, and is better tuned for developers. The non-reasoning model used in ChatGPT is available as gpt-5-chat-latest," OpenAI said in a blogpost.

 

The new model is a major upgrade over its predecessor, GPT-4, and represents a "pretty significant step" toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Altman said.

 

"GPT-5 is really the first time that I think one of our mainline models has felt like you can ask a legitimate expert, like a PhD-level expert, anything... We wanted to simplify it and make it accessible. We wanted to make it available in our free tier for the first time," he said.

 

Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT, added that the new model significantly improves understanding across more than 12 Indian languages.

 

Whatsapp Banner"GPT-5 significantly improves multilingual understanding across over 12 Indian languages, including regional languages. So that's really exciting because as Sam mentioned, India is a priority market for us," Turley said."

 

OpenAI's GPT-5: India may become our largest market, says CEO Sam Altman - The Economic Times"

 

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"Use of Large Language Models for Extracting and Analyzing Data from Heterogeneous Catalysis Literature

 

Abstract: Extracting experimentally measured heterogeneous catalysis data from the text of research articles into structured databases would facilitate the rapid screening of catalysts with target properties and the development of models capable of directly predicting experimental outcomes. This text mining task has been transformed by the release of large language models (LLMs) capable of following general natural language instructions, which have made it possible to mine text without the need to train task-specific models or define comprehensive expression-matching rules. Here, we develop and share a text mining tool called CatMiner that extracts arbitrary user-specified structure–environment–property data using LLMs. It is agnostic to LLM choice, with both OpenAI GPT models and open-source Llama and DeepSeek models supported without modification. We benchmark the ability of CatMiner to rapidly extract useful data from abundant published literature by focusing on a case study of the oxidative coupling of methane. We explore how model choice and prompting strategies affect extraction quality. Key capabilities, including the use of domain knowledge, iterative prompting, and document-wide context handling are shown to be critical for effective performance. We identify situations where CatMiner struggles and suggest reporting standards for the community to make catalysis data easier to extract going forward. CatMiner enables the creation of machine-readable catalysis datasets, streamlining access to experimental insights buried in the literature.

 

Benjamin W. Walls, Suljo Linic*

Cite this: ACS Catal. 2025, 15, XXX, 14751–14763

https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c03844

Published August 10, 2025

© 2025 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society

 

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.5c03844

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"L'IA dans l’éducation africaine : progrès ou perte de mémoire culturelle ?

Les outils d’IA dans l’éducation africaine risquent d’effacer les valeurs autochtones ; une maîtrise locale et une IA ancrée dans la culture sont essentielles pour préserver les savoirs et garantir l’équité.

11 août 2025

Par James Maisiri et Solomon Musonza

 

Ces dernières années, un discours dominant s’est imposé, prônant l’intelligence artificielle (IA) comme moyen d’améliorer les systèmes éducatifs. À ce titre, le secteur éducatif africain utilise de plus en plus des outils pédagogiques basés sur l’IA, avec la promesse que ces technologies peuvent aider les enseignants dans leurs tâches quotidiennes, offrir un apprentissage personnalisé aux élèves et améliorer les pratiques pédagogiques. Cependant, une dimension importante de ce débat est souvent négligée : la technologie n’est pas neutre. Elle promeut, restreint et façonne les cultures de ceux qui la reçoivent. Peut-être devrions-nous, dans les systèmes éducatifs africains, réfléchir de manière critique aux valeurs et aux visions du monde qui se reflètent dans la conception des outils éducatifs basés sur l’IA.

 

De nombreux chercheurs ont conclu que la technologie n’est pas neutre, mais qu’elle représente souvent intrinsèquement les idéologies, les pratiques culturelles et les valeurs politiques du contexte dans lequel elle a été conçue (Van de Poel & Kroes, 2014). Par exemple, des féministes ont soutenu que les cultures patriarcales ont façonné la conception de technologies selon une perspective masculine (Hipolito et al., 2023). Parmi les exemples figurent des assistants virtuels comme Siri et Alexa, conçus comme des assistantes dociles, amicales, voire légèrement séductrices, à la voix féminine, exécutant toutes les instructions, perpétuant ainsi des stéréotypes patriarcaux (Strengers & Kennedy, 2021). Au Japon, certaines technologiques reflètent les croyances spirituelles shintoïstes selon lesquelles les objets non humains ont une âme, comme on le voit avec les animaux de compagnie robotiques alimentés par l'IA, tel le chien AIBO de Sony, créé pour refléter les valeurs sociétales de la compagnie (Jensen, 2013). Les digues maritimes et les dos d'âne sont également des technologies conçues pour incarner la valeur sociétale de la protection de la vie humaine (Van de Poel & Kroes, 2014).

 

Peut-être devrions-nous, dans les systèmes éducatifs africains, réfléchir de manière critique aux valeurs et aux visions du monde qui se reflètent dans la conception des outils éducatifs basés sur l’IA.

Si nous acceptons que la technologie puisse façonner et incarner intrinsèquement des valeurs culturelles, cela signifie qu’un transfert de technologie est aussi un transfert des valeurs culturelles de ses concepteurs (Majumder & Tripathi, 2020). Dans le domaine de l’éducation, le projet One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), mis en œuvre dans plusieurs pays, a bouleversé l’apprentissage communautaire traditionnel au Nigeria et ailleurs en promouvant un enseignement individualisé et autodirigé, en contradiction avec les valeurs locales (Ezumah, 2020). Étant donné que les outils éducatifs basés sur l’IA proviennent souvent des contextes culturels des pays du Nord et sont de plus en plus utilisés dans l’éducation en Afrique, il faut se demander comment ces valeurs et ces préjugés intégrés seront perçus.

 

Nyaaba, Wright et Choi (2024) soutiennent que les outils éducatifs d’IA sont conçus pour produire des programmes et des contenus destinés aux pays occidentaux technologiquement avancés, ignorant fréquemment les coutumes et savoirs autochtones. Par exemple, dans de nombreuses sociétés africaines, les systèmes éducatifs incluent des pratiques agricoles fondées sur des connaissances écologiques contextuelles. Or, ce savoir est souvent absent des programmes générés par l’IA. Ainsi, les élèves qui utilisent l’IA reçoivent un transfert culturel de méthodes externes tout en étant privés de contenus d'apprentissage autochtones. Cette tendance à l’effacement épistémique des méthodes agricoles africaines n’est pas nouvelle et a été historiquement introduite par l’impérialisme et la colonisation à travers les processus d’industrialisation, mais l’IA risque de contribuer encore davantage à l’effacement des savoirs autochtones. Par exemple, la rationalité occidentale perçoit les plantes comme des objets, alors que les connaissances autochtones d’Afrique de l’Est considèrent les plantes comme des êtres dotés d’esprit et d'une capacité d'action. Or, ces valeurs Est-Africaines sont souvent absentes des programmes agricoles générés par l’IA (Foster et al., 2023). Par ailleurs, lorsque des chercheurs ont demandé à ChatGPT et Gemini combien il y a de saisons, les deux ont répondu « quatre ». En Afrique de l’Ouest, cependant, il existe deux saisons principales, ce qui montre que ces outils ont tendance à trop généraliser les variations climatiques et peinent à fournir des données éducatives précises et contextualisées (Nyaaba, Wright et Choi, 2024).

 

De plus, de nombreux systèmes éducatifs africains autochtones sont axés sur la communauté. Par exemple, l’éducation autochtone des peuples Massaï et Kipsigis au Kenya met l’accent sur les compétences interpersonnelles et sociales comme éléments essentiels de la culture (Kerubo, 2016). Cependant, nombre de technologies éducatives sont conçues autour de valeurs liées à l’apprentissage individualisé. Des outils comme ChatGPT favorisent également un apprentissage individualisé et centré sur l’écran, ce qui menace une culture d’apprentissage communautaire, collaboratif et interpersonnel. Certaines études ont même observé une corrélation entre l’utilisation de l’IA par les élèves à l’école et une diminution de la capacité d'adaptation sociale des élèves (Lai et al., 2023 ; Kouam & Muchowe, 2025).

 

Au-delà des programmes scolaires, l’appropriation de la langue représente également une menace pour les valeurs culturelles. Les langues ne peuvent être réduites à de simples moyens de communication : elles incarnent un cadre épistémologique spécifique. Les outils éducatifs d’IA sont multilingues mais souvent monoculturels, conservant les préjugés culturels de la langue dans laquelle ils ont été entraînés, excluant en grande partie les épistémologies et langues autochtones. Par exemple, dans certaines communautés africaines, la spiritualité occupe une place importante dans le programme éducatif. Pourtant, lorsqu’on a demandé à Gemini de proposer une formulation différente de « Dieu est bon » en gurune, une langue parlée au Ghana, la réponse a révélé sa faible maîtrise de cette langue et son manque de connaissances à son sujet (Nyaaba, Wright et Choi, 2024). En incitant les étudiants africains à se conformer au discours occidental et aux visions du monde qu’il véhicule, plutôt qu’à valoriser leurs langues et systèmes de savoirs autochtones dans les outils d’IA, on constate un transfert culturel au sein de leur éducation.

 

Étant donné que les outils éducatifs basés sur l’IA proviennent souvent des contextes culturels des pays du Nord et sont de plus en plus utilisés dans l’éducation en Afrique, il faut se demander comment ces valeurs et ces préjugés intégrés seront perçus.

Les écosystèmes numériques créent des « territoires numériques qui, à l’instar des espaces physiques, ont la propension à devenir des lieux… de colonialité numérique-territoriale » (Mohamed et al., 2020 : 65). Les systèmes éducatifs africains ont largement importé des outils d’IA sans se soucier des conséquences épistémologiques. La dépendance technologique de l’Afrique vis-à-vis des pays du Nord la rend vulnérable à un transfert unilatéral de valeurs et de cadres culturels, entraînant un déplacement culturel. Les établissements d'enseignement et les gouvernements africains doivent créer leurs propres outils éducatifs d’IA, qui reflètent les systèmes de savoirs autochtones, tout en éduquant activement leur population dans les domaines des sciences, de la technologie, de l’ingénierie et des mathématiques (STEM) afin de rompre cette dépendance technologique vis-à-vis des pays du Nord et de forger leur propre destin.

 

En incitant les étudiants africains à se conformer au discours occidental et aux visions du monde qu’il véhicule, plutôt qu’à valoriser leurs langues et systèmes de savoirs autochtones dans les outils d’IA, on constate un transfert culturel au sein de leur éducation.

Au-delà des réformes descendantes, il existe en Afrique des mouvements populaires qui luttent contre les préjugés liés à l'IA et l'injustice épistémique dans leur contexte éducatif. Par exemple, Masakhane est une initiative panafricaine bénévole qui met en place un réseau de traitement du langage naturel (NLP) formé par des étudiants, des enseignants, des chercheurs et des codeurs africains. Cette initiative vise à traduire les informations disponibles en ligne dans les langues maternelles d’apprenants issus de divers horizons (Ravindran, 2023). Ils ont lancé l'initiative « Décoloniser la science », qui visait initialement à traduire des articles de recherche pré-publiés dans le domaine des STIM en plusieurs langues africaines. Dans un premier temps, ils ont commencé par traduire les résumés de ces articles dans différentes langues africaines. Les systèmes d’IA de Masakhane sont souvent créés grâce à une recherche participative favorisant la collaboration ouverte via des contributions communautaires, par exemple sous la forme d'enregistrements de discussions communautaires ou d'articles de journaux locaux (Ravindran, 2023). Ce processus de recherche participative démocratise l’IA et encourage l’appropriation locale de la production de savoirs autochtones.

 

La présence d’initiatives locales, aux côtés de stratégies nationales, peut aider les systèmes éducatifs africains à créer des solutions d’IA équitables et culturellement pertinentes. Au-delà des solutions de formation à l’IA, une utilisation pertinente de l’IA dans les systèmes éducatifs africains doit impérativement s’accompagner d’une appropriation des outils éducatifs d’IA. Les systèmes éducatifs africains doivent se doter des moyens de décider quand et comment utiliser ces outils dans le contexte africain.

 

 

References

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Foster, L., Szilagyi, K., Wairegi, A., Oguamanam, C., & de Beer, J. (2023). Smart farming and artificial intelligence in East Africa: Addressing indigeneity, plants, and gender. Smart Agricultural Technology, 3, 100132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2022.100132 (Accessed: 25 January 2025).

 

Hipolito, I., Winkle, K., & Lie, M. (2023). Enactive Artificial Intelligence: Subverting Gender Norms in Robot-Human Interaction. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2023.1149303/full (Accessed: 24 February 2025).

 

Jensen, C. (2013). Techno-animism in Japan: Shinto Cosmograms, Actor-network Theory, and the Enabling Powers of Non-human Agencies. Theory, Culture & Society, 30(2), 84–115.

 

Kouam, A. W. F., & Muchowe, R. M. (2024). Exploring graduate students’ perception and adoption of AI chatbots in Zimbabwe: Balancing pedagogical innovation and development of higher-order cognitive skills. Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, 7(1), 1-11. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4748274 

 

Kerubo, I. P. (2016). African indigenous education as practiced by the Maasai of Kenya [Master's thesis, University of Nairobi]. University of Nairobi eRepository. https://shorturl.at/uSFIL (Accessed: 14 December 2024).

 

Lai, T., Xie, C., Ruan, M., Wang, Z., Lu, H., & Fu, S. (2023). Influence of artificial intelligence in education on adolescents' social adaptability: The mediatory role of social support. PLoS One, 18(3), e0283170. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283170 

 

Majumder, M., & Tripathi, A. K. (2020). Transformative power of technologies: Cultural transfer and globalization. AI & Society, 38, 2295–2303. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01144-w (Accessed: 15 April 2025).

 

Mohamed, S., Png, M.-T., & Isaac, W. (2020). Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence. Philosophy & Technology, 33, 659–684.

 

Nyaaba, M. et al. (2024) Generative AI and Digital Neocolonialism in Global Education: Towards an Equitable framework, [Preprint] arXiv. journal-article, https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02966 (Accessed: 25 January 2025).

 

Ravindran, S. (2023). ‘AI often mangles African languages. Local scientists and volunteers are taking it back to school.’ Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj8509. (Accessed: 15 May 2025).

 

Strengers, Y., & Kennedy, J. (2020). The smart wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and other smart home devices need a feminist reboot. Mit Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542791/the-smart-wife/ (Accessed: 15 January 2025).

 

van de Poel, I., & Kroes, P. (2014). Can Technology Embody Values? In P. Kroes & P.-P. Verbeek (Eds.), The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts (pp. 103–124). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7914-3_7 (Accessed: 17 November 2024).

 

Les idées exprimées ici sont celles des auteurs ; elles ne reflètent pas nécessairement la position officielle de l'UNESCO et n'engagent pas l'Organisation.

 

Biographies

James Maisiri est chercheur et doctorant à l’Université de Johannesburg, où il étudie la manière dont les technologies numériques transforment les marchés du travail dans un contexte africain, avec des implications pour l’éducation et le développement des compétences.

 

Solomon Musonza est stagiaire de recherche au Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) de l’Université de Johannesburg, où il se concentre sur l’utilisation de ChatGPT par les étudiants dans un cadre éducatif."

https://www.unesco.org/fr/articles/lia-dans-leducation-africaine-progres-ou-perte-de-memoire-culturelle

#metaglossia_mundus 

"Nowadays, leading ASR (automatic speech recognition) solutions are transforming our relationship with speech technology. These engines are judged not just by their accuracy, but by how well they integrate into privacy-focused, mission-critical, and global environments. Here are five ASR options reshaping the future of speech-to-text:

Shunya Labs Pingala V1
Shunya Labs Pingala V1 stands as the industry’s most advanced ASR engine, redefining the standards of speech technology with unmatched performance. It supports real-time recognition for over 200 languages and dialects, including numerous underrepresented Indic, Asian, and African languages. With a record-low word error rate of just 2.94%, Pingala V1 outperforms competitors by more than 50% and consistently tops leading speech benchmarks. Its fully offline, on-premises capability ensures the highest privacy standards, making it SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant from launch.

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is one of the most widely adopted cloud-based ASR solutions, valued for its integration with Google’s ecosystem, support for over 120 languages, and robust infrastructure. It offers businesses easy access to speech recognition capabilities through a scalable cloud environment. However, its dependency on constant internet connectivity, higher costs for high-volume or real-time usage, and lower performance in noisy or dialect-heavy scenarios can be limiting.

Microsoft Azure
Speech-to-Text Microsoft Azure Speech-to-Text is trusted by enterprises for its reliable API and real-time transcription across more than 75 languages, benefiting from the scalability and stability of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. It is well-suited for organizations already embedded in the Azure ecosystem. However, its cloud-only processing can slow down large workloads and restrict privacy-focused deployments.

Amazon Transcribe (AWS)
Amazon Transcribe (AWS) provides seamless integration with the AWS ecosystem, offering both real-time and batch transcription capabilities. Its scalability and compatibility with other AWS services make it a popular choice for cloud-centric businesses. Despite these advantages, Amazon Transcribe supports fewer languages and relies heavily on cloud infrastructure, limiting its applicability in regulated industries

IBM Watson Speech to Text
IBM Watson Speech to Text is recognized for its focus on customizable and security-conscious ASR solutions, performing competitively in English and other major languages. It allows businesses to tailor the engine to specific needs and ensures data security for its users. However, onboarding can be time-intensive, language coverage is more limited, and accuracy can vary with accents and dialects."

Read more at:
https://cxotoday.com/story/5-groundbreaking-speech-recognition-engines-that-are-redefining-the-asr-landscape-in-2025/
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"C’est désormais officiel, la Confédération africaine de football (CAF) a introduit l’usage des langues nationales lors des conférences de presse du Championnat d’Afrique des nations (CHAN). La décision, saluée à travers le continent, permet aux journalistes de poser leurs questions aux joueurs et entraîneurs en langues africaines. Dans un entretien accordé à un reporter de Guineematin.com, Mohamed Bintou Keïta, Directeur général adjoint de l’Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine et linguistique appliquée, a exprimé sa satisfaction. Il salue « une excellente initiative des autorités de la CAF » visant à valoriser les langues africaines dans les compétitions continentales.

 

Jusqu’ici, seules les trois langues officielles de la CAF : le français, l’anglais et l’arabe, étaient autorisées en conférence de presse. Désormais, les langues nationales font leur entrée, dans un cadre encadré et avec certaines restrictions.

 

Pour Mohamed Bintou Keïta, cette innovation rapproche les acteurs du football de leur culture d’origine et facilite la transmission authentique des émotions. « Quelqu’un qui s’exprime dans sa langue maternelle transmet mieux ses sentiments. Nous avons vu beaucoup de joueurs, y compris guinéens, qui n’ont pas eu un long parcours scolaire. Leur permettre de parler dans leur langue, c’est leur rendre leur dignité », explique-t-il, citant l’exemple de l’ancien international Mamadi Kaba Dieng.

 

Selon lui, cette mesure est aussi une manière de lever la barrière linguistique qui peut parfois provoquer stress et incompréhension chez les joueurs. Il insiste sur l’usage du terme langue nationale plutôt que langue locale. « Locale par rapport à quoi ? Le français est la langue locale des peuples francs, l’anglais celle des peuples anglais », souligne-t-il.

 

Mohamed Bintou Keïta souhaite que d’autres institutions africaines, comme la CEDEAO et l’Union africaine, adoptent la même approche. « L’Union européenne compte 27 pays et chacun parle sa langue au Parlement européen, avec des services d’interprétation. Nous aussi, nous pouvons nous comprendre entre chefs d’État en bambara, en dioula, en maninka, avec des interprètes si nécessaire », plaide-t-il.

 

Cette initiative avait déjà été testée lors de la dernière Coupe d’Afrique des nations (CAN) en Côte d’Ivoire, avec un fort engouement du public et une hausse de l’audience des plateformes de communication de la CAF. Fort de ce succès, l’expérience est reconduite au CHAN 2025, qui se joue au Kenya, en Tanzanie et Ouganda, conjointement, où les officiers médias facilitent désormais l’expression des entraîneurs et joueurs dans leurs langues nationales lors des conférences de presse.

 

Par Mamadou Yaya Diallo -11 août 2025 

pour Guineematin.com"

 

https://guineematin.com/2025/08/11/autorisation-des-langues-nationales-dans-les-conferences-de-presse-du-chan-cest-une-avancee-majeure/

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This webinar marks the official launch of the French translation of the WHO Guidance for Best Practices for Clinical Trials, a key tool developed to support implementation of World Health Assembly Resolution WHA75.8 on strengthening clinical trials.

"Transforming clinical trials: Launch of the French translation of WHO’s Guidance for Best Practices for Clinical Trials

3 September 2025 14:00 – 15:30

Format: Online webinar via Zoom with French and English interpretation

Audience: Open to all clinical research stakeholders across French-speaking countries including government agencies, regulatory authorities, ethics committees, researchers, funders, patient and community engagement organisations.

 

Overview

This webinar marks the official launch of the French translation of the WHO Guidance for Best Practices for Clinical Trials, a key tool developed to support implementation of World Health Assembly Resolution WHA75.8 on strengthening clinical trials.

 

The Guidance aims to improve the quality, coordination, and inclusiveness of clinical trials globally, with a focus on ensuring that research generates timely and reliable evidence for public health. The availability of the French version broadens access to this critical resource, supporting its implementation across Francophone countries and regions.

 

The event will highlight the importance of the Guidance in strengthening clinical trial ecosystems, share country and regional experiences, and explore strategies for ethical and inclusive trial conduct, community engagement, and regional collaboration.

 

Objectives

To introduce the French version of the WHO Guidance for Best Practices for Clinical Trials

To promote awareness and uptake among Francophone stakeholders

To exchange perspectives on local implementation

To foster regional collaboration and partnerships

Expected outcomes

Increased awareness and understanding of the Guidance among French-speaking stakeholders

Stronger engagement in implementing the recommendations

Strengthened regional and national networks

Practical insights for applying the Guidance in country contexts

Programme highlights

Opening remarks by WHO Chief Scientist

Keynote by Senior Advisor, WHO Science for Health Department

Panel discussion featuring diverse Francophone stakeholders

Reflections from government, regulatory, research, ethics, funding, and patient/community representatives

Closing call to action from the WHA75.8 Secretariat

Registration

Contact: WHA75.8 Secretariat – wha75.8@who.int"

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2025/09/03/default-calendar/transforming-clinical-trials-launch-of-the-french-translation-of-who-s-guidance-for-best-practices-for-clinical-trials

#metaglossia_mundus 

"Transformer les essais cliniques : Lancement de la traduction française des Lignes directrices de l’OMS sur les bonnes pratiques pour les essais cliniques

3 septembre 2025 14:00 – 15:30 

Format : Webinaire en ligne via Zoom avec interprétation français-anglais

Public : Ouvert à tous les acteurs de la recherche clinique dans les pays francophones, y compris les autorités gouvernementales, les autorités de régulation, les comités d’éthique, les chercheurs, les bailleurs de fonds, ainsi que les organisations de patients et d'engagement communautaire.

 

Aperçu

Ce webinaire marque le lancement officiel de la traduction française des Lignes directrices de l’OMS sur les bonnes pratiques pour les essais cliniques, un outil essentiel élaboré pour soutenir la mise en œuvre de la résolution WHA75.8 de l'Assemblée mondiale de la Santé sur le renforcement des essais cliniques.

 

Les Lignes directrices visent à améliorer la qualité, la coordination et l’inclusivité des essais cliniques à l’échelle mondiale, en veillant à ce que la recherche produise des données fiables et opportunes au service de la santé publique. La version française élargit l'accès à cette ressource essentielle, facilitant son adoption dans les pays et régions francophones.

 

L’événement mettra en lumière l’importance des Lignes directrices pour renforcer les écosystèmes d’essais cliniques, partagera des expériences nationales et régionales, et explorera des stratégies pour mener des essais éthiques et inclusifs, renforcer l’engagement communautaire et promouvoir la collaboration régionale.

 

Objectifs

Présenter la version française des Lignes directrices de l’OMS sur les bonnes pratiques pour les essais cliniques

Promouvoir la sensibilisation et l’adoption par les parties prenantes francophones

Échanger des perspectives sur la mise en œuvre au niveau local

Encourager la collaboration et les partenariats régionaux

Résultats attendus

Sensibilisation accrue et meilleure compréhension des Lignes directrices parmi les parties prenantes francophones

Engagement renforcé dans la mise en œuvre des recommandations

Réseaux régionaux et nationaux consolidés

Perspectives concrètes pour l’application des Lignes directrices dans les contextes nationaux

Temps forts du programme

Allocution d’ouverture par la Scientifique en chef de l’OMS

Discours d’ouverture par le Conseiller principal, Département Sciences pour la santé, OMS

Table ronde réunissant divers intervenants francophones

Témoignages d’acteurs gouvernementaux, réglementaires, académiques, éthiques, financiers et communautaires

Appel à l’action et remarques de clôture par le Secrétariat WHA75.8

Inscription

Contact: Secrétariat WHA75.8 – wha75.8@who.int"

https://www.who.int/fr/news-room/events/detail/2025/09/03/default-calendar/transforming-clinical-trials-launch-of-the-french-translation-of-who-s-guidance-for-best-practices-for-clinical-trials

#metaglossia_mundus 

"Sommet mondial sur les langues autochtones à Ottawa

Lundi 11 août 2025

 

Ottawa est la ville hôte du tout premier sommet mondial sur les langues autochtones au Canada, du 11 au 14 août. Des représentants d’au moins 15 pays seront sur place.

 

C’est un événement qui se veut rassembleur et qui prône tant la protection que la revitalisation des langues autochtones au pays, dans un contexte où ces langues se perdent de plus en plus, principalement chez les jeunes générations.

 

On discute de ce sommet mondial et de l’état des langues autochtones au pays avec l’hôte du Sommet mondial sur les langues autochtones à Ottawa, Tunu Napartuk."

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/bonjour-la-cote/segments/rattrapage/2147583/sommet-mondial-sur-langues-autochtones-a-ottawa

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A reported misunderstanding is fuelling concerns in Europe over the US president’s ability to negotiate an outcome with Vladimir Putin that protects European sovereignty.

 

ByDavid Crowe

 

August 11, 2025 — 8.22am

 

London: European leaders have ramped up their warnings to US President Donald Trump about his plans for a peace deal on Ukraine, amid claims that his top envoy misjudged Russian demands for territory due to a translation blunder.

 

 

 

 

Eight more European nations called for a hard line against Russian President Vladimir Putin in his meeting with Trump this Friday, insisting that Trump could not negotiate a deal without Ukraine and Europe having a say in the outcome.

 

 

 

 

“Negotiations can only take place in context of a ceasefire,” said the leaders of eight Baltic and Nordic nations stretching from Norway to Latvia.

 

 

 

 

“The people of Ukraine must have the freedom to decide their future. The path to peace cannot be charted without Ukraine’s voice. No decisions on Ukraine without Ukraine, and no decisions on Europe without Europe.”

 

 

 

 

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky is seeking a seat at the table when Trump meets Putin in Alaska on Friday, declaring that he is willing to agree to a ceasefire but will not cede the land claimed by Russia.

 

 

 

 

The statement from the Nordic and Baltic leaders came one day after British, Finnish, French, German, Italian and Polish leaders, joined by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, declared that any outcome must protect the security interests of Ukraine and Europe.

 

 

 

 

An embarrassing translation error is fuelling concerns in Europe over Trump’s ability to negotiate an outcome with Putin that protects European sovereignty, as Putin demands formal control of at least four regions of eastern Ukraine.

 

 

 

 

German newspaper Bild reported that Trump’s special envoy, former New York property developer Steve Witkoff, misunderstood Putin’s goals during a meeting in Moscow last week.

 

 

 

 

Bild reported that Witkoff thought Russia was proposing its “peaceful withdrawal” from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia when Putin was instead demanding the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from those regions.

 

 

 

 

“Witkoff doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” a Ukrainian government official told Bild, adding that the German government shared this view.

 

 

 

 

‘It’s not going to make anybody super happy’

 

A White House official told the Associated Press that Trump was open to a trilateral summit with both the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, but was planning the bilateral meeting requested by Putin.

 

 

 

 

The statement from the Nordic-Baltic Eight represented the views of the leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden.

 

 

 

 

US Vice President JD Vance said a negotiated settlement between Russia and Ukraine was unlikely to satisfy either side, saying the US was seeking a settlement both countries could accept.

 

 

 

 

“It’s not going to make anybody super happy. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians, probably, at the end of the day, are going to be unhappy with it,” he said on Fox News on Sunday, Washington time.

 

 

 

 

Vance’s comments appeared to acknowledge that Zelensky would be part of the discussions in some way, if not directly with Putin in Alaska.

 

 

 

 

“We’re at a point now where we’re trying to figure out, frankly, scheduling and things like that, around when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an end to this conflict,” he said.

 

 

 

 

Russian strikes injured at least 12 people in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

 

 

 

 

Trump has said a potential deal would involve “some swapping of territories to the betterment of both” countries – signalling an outcome fiercely opposed by Ukraine.

 

 

 

 

EU foreign ministers will meet on Monday to discuss next steps.

 

 

 

 

“The US has the power to force Russia to negotiate seriously,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Sunday.

 

 

 

 

“Any deal between the US and Russia must have Ukraine, and the EU included, for it is a matter of Ukraine’s and the whole of Europe’s security.”

 

 

 

 

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told the ABC network in the US that Friday’s summit “will be about testing Putin” on how serious he was about ending the war.

 

 

 

 

Rutte said a deal could not include legal recognition of Russian control over Ukrainian land, though it might include de facto recognition.

 

 

 

 

He compared it to the situation after World War II when Washington accepted that the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were de facto controlled by the Soviet Union but did not legally recognise their annexation.

 

 

 

 

In addition to Crimea, which it seized in 2014, Russia has formally claimed the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as its own, although it controls only about 70 per cent of the last three. It holds smaller pieces of territory in three other regions, while Ukraine says it holds a sliver of Russia’s Kursk region.

 

 

 

 

With Reuters, AP"

 

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/europe-on-edge-after-trump-envoy-s-translation-blunder-amid-high-stakes-peace-talks-20250811-p5mluw.html

 

#metaglossia_mundus 

"This volume offers an in-depth corpus linguistic analysis of the word “empathy” aiming to foster unique insights into a word widely found across contemporary discourses and into methodological innovations for analyzing large corpora. Given the understanding of empathy’s importance for individual and social development, A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Analyzing “Empathy” demonstrates the potential of a corpus approach to shed new light on a significant yet difficult-to-define concept. Fusari systematically applies the use of concordances and other corpus output to derive patterns and recurrent phraseologies in the 36+ billion-word electronic corpus, English Web 2020, to help readers grapple with key ideas around empathy. Such questions include what we really mean by empathy, whether it is always positive, whether it is learned or innate, and whether empathy is truly what “makes us human”. The book contends with these questions across disciplines, from the clinical to the psychological and philosophical to the linguistic and discursive. Opening new areas of research into inclusive language and the use of corpus tools to analyze individual terms, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in corpus linguistics and applied linguistics, as well as such fields as cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, and allied health.
1st Edition
A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Analyzing "Empathy"
By Sabrina Fusari
Copyright 2026
ISBN 9781041053439
146 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
Published June 26, 2025 by Routledge
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https://www.routledge.com/A-Corpus-Linguistic-Approach-to-Analyzing-Empathy/Fusari/p/book/9781041053439
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"Fewer and fewer pupils in Lithuanian schools are choosing Russian as a second foreign language – last year, less than half opted for it. Meanwhile, Spanish, French, and German are becoming increasingly popular. According to the president of the School Leaders Association, the demand for teachers of these languages is expected to rise significantly in the near future, and specialists need to be trained accordingly.

 

Morta, a secondary school pupil, has been learning Spanish since Year 6. She says she enjoys the language.

 

"I find Spanish a very beautiful language – how it sounds, how people speak it, and the culture is very interesting, which is why I wanted to learn it in the first place," shares pupil Morta Čičelytė.

 

A few years ago, there was no option to study Spanish as a second foreign language at her school, so the family decided to take the initiative and pursue it independently.

 

"We sat down – my husband, daughter, and I – and asked if she’d like to learn Spanish. She said yes. So what could we do? We had to convince her classmates – after all, they won’t start a class for just one child, no matter how eager. We found out what the minimum number of pupils was. Then our daughter prepared a presentation for her classmates, and it turned out there were 13 or 14 who wanted to learn Spanish," recounts Morta’s mother, Raimonda Makrickaitė-Čičelienė.

 

A Spanish teacher at one school in Kaunas says the language is becoming ever more popular among pupils.

 

"Interest in Spanish is growing every day in Lithuania. I believe it will soon become the third most popular choice in some schools, which is why we need more native-speaking Spanish teachers," says teacher Ery Martin.

 

According to Deputy Education Minister Jonas Petkevičius, 2,500 pupils chose Spanish in the 2023–2024 academic year, compared to over 6,000 this year. He notes that more and more students are turning away from Russian.

 

"The decline has been particularly sharp since 2022. When the number of pupils studying Russian dropped by 10 percent annually, this year we’re down to just 43.5 per cent studying Russian as a foreign language. There is also a trend – in the first year of upper secondary school, pupils can drop Russian and choose another language," he says.

 

This shift is particularly evident in schools in Vilnius.

 

"Out of more than 6,000 Year 6 pupils, only 400 chose Russian – that’s just 6 percent. In Lithuania, there are 108 schools where Russian is no longer offered as a foreign language in Year 6," Petkevičius adds.

 

A growing number of Russian teachers are now retraining.

 

"When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, our attitude changed – we realised we had to distance ourselves even more from that world, and schools are no exception. As schools began to phase out Russian and offer pupils alternatives, it was only natural that lesson hours for these teachers were significantly reduced," says Mindaugas Nefas, Vice-Chancellor of the Education Academy at Vytautas Magnus University.

 

In addition to Spanish, German, French, and Italian are now among the most popular second foreign languages, according to Dainius Žvirdauskas, president of the School Leaders Association.

 

"It’s vital that specialist training is sustainable. If we already have Year 6 and Year 7 pupils learning Spanish, we’ll soon need more and more teachers. So training specialists and their entry into the job market must increase proportionally," he says.

 

The Deputy Education Minister also notes that the state-level school-leaving exam in Russian has been scrapped as of this year. As a result, he expects even fewer upper secondary pupils to choose Russian"

Goda Malinauskaitė, Jūratė Anilionytė, LRT TV naujienų tarnyba, LRT.lt

2025.08.10 11:00

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2633229/spanish-other-languages-gain-ground-as-russian-falls-out-of-favour-in-lithuanian-schools

#metaglossia_mundus 

"West Ham United to provide British Sign Language interpretation for matchdays at London Stadium
9TH AUGUST 2025
West Ham United is proud to continue enhancing the matchday experience at London Stadium by introducing British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation for the 2025/26 season.

As part of the Club’s ongoing commitment to accessibility and inclusion, a dedicated BSL interpreter will now be present at matches at London Stadium to translate the pre-match and half-time shows. Whenever our matchday host is on screen, an interpreter will also be shown live on the stadium’s big screens to ensure that all fans can enjoy and engage with our interviews, announcements and competitions.

These ongoing improvements are shaped through regular dialogue with the West Ham United Disabled Supporters Association (WHUDSA), ensuring that the voices of supporters with disabilities or accessibility requirements are heard and acted upon.

“Securing BSL access at the games marks a significant step forward in providing equal accessibility for our deaf supporters,” said WHUDSA board member Keighley Miles.

“We look forward to continuing our collaboration with everyone at West Ham United to ensure we offer the best possible support for all disabled fans attending matches.”

As we introduce this new service for matchdays, the Club and WHUDSA would welcome any feedback from fans who use BSL. Anyone wishing to provide feedback can either email accessibility@westhamunited.co.uk or get in touch with WHUDSA via their website.

West Ham United remains committed to creating an environment where all supporters can enjoy football in a welcoming and accessible setting.

For more information on accessibility at London Stadium, or to request assistance ahead of your visit, please view our Access Statement or contact accessibility@westhamunited.co.uk."

https://www.whufc.com/news/west-ham-united-provide-british-sign-language-interpretation-matchdays-london-stadium
#metaglossia_mundus

"Portugese Language Translator/Localization Specialist (Remote)

Published: August 8, 2025

LOCATION Remote (Anywhere in the World), Cayman Islands

JOB TYPE Full-Time

CATEGORY Other Startup Jobs

DESCRIPTION

Salary: USD 4000 - 8000/month

 

Bitget is one of the world’s leading digital assets ecosystems. With over 120 million registered users, Bitget has one of the most comprehensive suites of blockchain products and services available.

 

Our mission is to support the growth of the digital assets industry and we believe it represents the future of finance. What we do empowers the future of finance by ensuring secure, efficient and smart digital transactions.

 

We are one of the fastest growing companies in the digital asset sector. If you are looking for cutting-edge work, where you will have opportunities to develop your career among peers who are experts in their field, and you believe in the future of crypto currency, then look no further than Bitget!

 

What you'll do

 

MTPE, review, tranlate, and localize written tasks in a timely manner according to the team’s needs

Guarantee a high level of quality, expertise, and commitment

Perform LQA (debug) tasks and cross-checking

Collaborate on TB (Termbase) management

 

What you'll need

 

Minimum 2 years of proven localization/translation experience in crypto industry

Native Portugese-PT speaker with excellent command of English-pt-PT translation and strong linguistic skills.

Proficient in using CAT tools; experience with Phrase is preferred.

Detail-oriented, responsible, and able to work under pressure.

Strong teamwork and communication skills.

 

Why Bitget?

 

Bitget is the world's leading web 3 platform for copy trading and one of the world's largest and most respected exchanges

We are a global company with staff members from over 50 different countries and regions

We are growing and looking for world-class ambitious talents to help us continue this journey

We have a streamlined structure that empowers employees to work efficiently, delivering the best results in a short timeframe

We offer competitive salaries and benefits

Blockchain technology and digital assets have the potential to change finance in a way no other technology can - be part of it!

Apply Online"

https://www.eu-startups.com/job/portugese-language-translator-localization-specialist-remote/

#metaglossia_mundus 

There’s a growing appetite for stories from around the globe – if only we can avoid the cliches and exoticism of recent years, writes the International Booker nominee

 

"The consolidation of the English-language publishing industry in the 1980s and 90s gave its most successful writers a worldwide reach and a critical impact that no authors from other countries could aspire to. The Italian contemporary canon, at the beginning of the millennium, was composed of David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith and Jonathan Franzen; the country’s first creative writing programme, established in the mid-90s, owes its name to Holden Caulfield; its students (some of whom have been my students) learn technique by reading Ernest Hemingway and Joan Didion, who show; not Anna Maria Ortese and Elsa Morante, who tell. Their Italian syntax and style – as measured in Eleonora Gallitelli’s groundbreaking computational studies – are more influenced by English than the Italian of translators working from English.

 

 

 

 

... The authors in today’s contemporary canon – celebrated by critics worldwide, and imitated by aspiring novelists – come from much more varied backgrounds and write in many more languages. Roberto Bolaño, Annie Ernaux, Han Kang and Karl Ove Knausgård are the Franzens and Wallaces of two decades ago.

 

 

 

 

Of course it is impossible to draw a precise line for a general shift of this kind, but “Ferrante fever” could be as good a watershed moment as any. Elena Ferrante was a relatively niche writer (both in her country and abroad) whose novels achieved a spectacular, worldwide success, reaching the kind of ubiquity previously associated with people performatively reading Infinite Jest to show off. It also sparked a growing international interest in Italian literature, involving both younger writers (such as Durastanti, or myself for that matter) or allegedly “forgotten” classics, such as the works of Elsa Morante and Alba de Céspedes.

 

 

 

 

There could be several reasons for this. The further consolidation of the US publishing industry has made it harder for innovative, ambitious novels to emerge. It could be an effect of the trendiness of “literature in translation” in the English-language market – even though the notion that it would have its own niche is largely unfathomable to non-native English speakers, used since childhood to reading literature in translation and calling it “literature”.

 

 

 

 

It could also be that different books are being written. Since the turn of the century, writers from all over the world have felt the dual literary citizenship that Minae wrote about: seeing themselves as part of both a local and a universal tradition, reading Anna Maria Ortese at the Scuola Holden. It would have been natural to try to combine the two, working into their writing a thin veneer of exoticism to lead readers to engage with its deeper ideas.

 

 

 

 

Readers in Buenos Aires or Naples could very well find a story set in Seoul more relatable than one set in Franzen’s Minnesota

 

Of course there is much, much more to, say, Ferrante’s novels than a picturesque Italian backdrop. But the backdrop’s recognisability – indeed, its very picturesqueness – has probably played a role in making them relatable to a wider audience. Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives similarly toys with cliches about Mexico, both subverting them and contextualising them into a wider picture. Han Kang’s The Vegetarian plays into a strain of body horror that western readers have come to stereotypically associate with east Asian literature – only to explode it with a psychologically harrowing and politically powerful fable about resisting patriarchy.

 

 

 

 

On the other hand, this increased international interest in non-anglophone literature could have another source: no matter where these books originated, their worldwide success often came as a result of their success in English. This was the case with, for instance, both Ferrante and Bolaño, who only caught on abroad after resonating with the English‑language market.

 

 

 

 

It is particularly evident in Han’s case: The Vegetarian was published in South Korea in 2007, but gained international acclaim after Deborah Smith’s spectacularly successful translation was published almost a decade later. In a particularly significant twist, its Italian edition was translated from the English instead of Han’s Korean, not because no translators could be found but because the editor, who read it in English, found Smith’s prose more effective – more relatable? – than the renditions they initially commissioned from the original.

 

 

 

 

This is not limited to recent, successful novels: two canonical 20th-century Italian authors, Natalia Ginzburg and Alba de Céspedes, have been translated internationally mostly after their English editions. Conversely, classic Danish author Tove Ditlevsen’s trilogy appeared in Italian after its US translation. If anglophone culture no longer beams its literature from the centre to what Umberto Eco called “the peripheries of the Empire”, it still acts as a transit hub between them, the arbiter of what is allowed to go beyond the confines of the local. My own novel, Perfection, has been acquired for translation in languages from Thai to Lithuanian only after its reception in English, and its International Booker shortlisting.

 

 

 

 

This could be seen as another, subtler form of imperialism; and yet it also allows more room for agency. Our peripheries are closer to each other than the long way through the centre makes it seem: readers in Buenos Aires or Naples could very well find a story set in Seoul more relatable than one set in Franzen’s Minnesota.

 

 

 

 

Durastanti’s latest novel, Missitalia, has a section set in Basilicata, mixing the true story of the women-only gangs that haunted its forests in the 19th century with the parallel-history discovery of oil there. As it is currently being translated into 10 languages (including English), she recently told me that her translators sometimes reach out to ask for help in rendering the region’s atmosphere. “Just think Appalachia,” is an answer she gives...

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/08/its-another-form-of-imperialism-how-anglophone-literature-lost-its-universal-appeal

 

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The modern work of Bible translation looks quite different than it did even a generation ago. But it remains a powerful testament to the enduring power of God’s word.

 

"For more than a century, the church in the United States has been actively involved in supporting nearly 7,400 language communities of the world by sending missionary Bible translators, praying and funding Bible translation.

 

According to recent statistics from ProgressBible, 4,172 languages now have full Bibles, New Testaments or Scripture portions. Another 2,461 languages have Bible translation programs in progress.

 

But this isn’t primarily a story about the U.S. church. It’s a story about churches all over the world that have brought life to God’s word by receiving, living and helping translate the Bible — today more than ever before.

 

As of May, 765 language communities still are waiting for Scripture translation to begin for the first time. In many of them, local churches are taking up the task directly. This is evidence of an incredible movement of God across Asia, Africa, the Pacific and elsewhere.

 

But for some, it prompts the question: What is the U.S. church’s role now? The need for U.S. missionary translators on the field has shifted as the church in the global South and East equips and sends local Bible translators who don’t need to learn a foreign language and culture.

 

I’ve seen important — and sometimes monumental — shifts in the way we structure translation work.

 

I’ve spent decades on the field in Africa and in American Bible translation leadership, and during that time, I’ve seen important — and sometimes monumental — shifts in the way we structure translation work.

 

But I also see the profound and lingering need for collaboration and capacity building. The need for strong partnership — training, funding and other means of support as these communities live out God’s calling on them — remains great.

 

Perhaps even more significantly, the commands of Scripture still apply to the U.S. church. We are expected to make disciples of all nations — to go, pray, give and advocate for the people of the world and the local churches that are established among them. This hasn’t changed, even as how we go about that work looks necessarily and wonderfully different

 

A church in Florida, for instance, decided they wanted to partner with a church in Southeast Asia by praying with them for the Bible translation work they were doing in their language. Hundreds signed up to pray for specific passages local team members were translating — kids and adults alike in small groups, as families and individually. This model, with humility and prayer at its center, has wrought profound change in the hearts of people in both communities.

 

Another church, this one in Washington, decided a decade ago to partner with an international mission organization. They “adopted” a community in West Africa, where the majority of people follow another major religion. The church has sent more than 50 short-term global workers to assist in everything from medical care to educational ministries, as well as two long-term families to engage in discipleship and church planting.

 

They also discovered the community was engaged in Bible translation and began advocating for and donating to the local project.

 

In 2015, when the community’s New Testament was completed, one of the pastors and five other church members traveled from Washington to the community in West Africa to celebrate the Bible dedication alongside the community in which they’d invested their labor, prayers and money.

 

The impact on the church body was so significant, their global missions team has now adopted three other language communities in equally challenging parts of the world and is actively seeking to choose a fifth.

 

Every one of the churches that enter into these translation partnerships probably would tell you they have gained far more than they have given. They have developed deep relationships with the partner churches, translators and people who have been the focus of their prayers, giving and advocacy.

 

In the words of one pastor in Virginia, “The church in (the Philippines) is not a project we invest in but a sister church we are privileged to serve and grow with.”

 

The modern work of Bible translation looks quite different than it did even a generation ago.

 

They also have seen their parishioners transformed from locally focused believers to globally minded intercessors, stewards, missionaries and storytellers. And throughout the partnership, God has blessed these Bible translation efforts more abundantly than the congregation could have imagined.

 

The modern work of Bible translation looks quite different than it did even a generation ago. But it remains a powerful testament to the enduring power of God’s word. We are all called, just as we always have been, to share the love and hope of the gospel with all nations.

 

The U.S. church doesn’t need to be central to translation work to be essential to it. That’s because we all are essential and have a role to play. Every church, every community, every language, every heart and every mind comprise an irreplaceable part of God’s plan to renew the world and draw people to himself.

 

Russ Hersman is a Wycliffe Bible Translators field coordinator for Anglophone/Lusophone Africa."

RUSS HERSMAN  | 

AUGUST 8, 2025

https://baptistnews.com/article/the-evolving-and-continuing-role-of-the-u-s-church-in-bible-translation/

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"This will support Yayasan Restu's efforts to translate the Quran into 30 additional languages, says Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

 

 

 

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the move would strengthen Malaysia’s position as one of the world’s leading Quran producers alongside Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

 

 

 

PUTRAJAYA: The government will provide additional funding to Yayasan Restu to support its efforts to translate the Quran into another 30 languages, said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

 

 

 

He said the initiative, which most recently saw the Quran translated into Russian, builds on the foundation’s existing work of producing translations in 30 languages, further expanding the reach of the Quran’s universal message worldwide.

 

 

 

Anwar, who is also finance minister, said the move would strengthen Malaysia’s position as one of the world’s leading Quran producers alongside Saudi Arabia and Egypt, while cementing its role as a regional leader in this area.

 

 

 

“To every country that I visit — whether it’s Peru, Brazil, Cambodia, Laos, China or Russia — I never fail to bring a translated Quran to present to the government, an Islamic centre, or the local mosque,” he said at the launch of the Russian translation here today.

 

 

 

With the additional funding, Yayasan Restu aims to increase the number of Quran translations to 60 languages within the next three years."

 

Bernama 

 

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/08/08/govt-to-provide-more-funding-for-quran-translation

 

#metaglossia_mundus 

"New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

Diplomats to look for ‘indications of hostility towards citizens, culture or founding principles of United States’

Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles to allow US diplomats to review their online activity before receiving educational and exchange visas, the state department has announced. Those who fail to do so will be suspected of hiding that activity from US officials.

The new guidance, unveiled by the state department on Wednesday, directs US diplomats to conduct an online presence review to look for “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States”.

A cable separately obtained by Politico also instructs diplomats to flag any “advocacy for, aid or support for foreign terrorists and other threats to US national security” and “support for unlawful antisemitic harassment or violence”.

The screening for “antisemitic” activity matches similar guidance given at US Citizenship and Immigration Services under the Department of Homeland Security and has been criticised as an effort to crack down on opposition to the conduct of Israel’s war in Gaza.

The new state department checks are directed at students and other applicants for visas in the F, M and J categories, which refer to academic and vocational education, as well as cultural exchanges.

“It is an expectation from American citizens that their government will make every effort to make our country safer, and that is exactly what the Trump administration is doing every single day,” said a senior state department official, adding that Marco Rubio was “helping to make America and its universities safer while bringing the state Department into the 21st century”.

The Trump administration paused the issuance of new education visas late last month as it mulled new social media vetting strategies. The US had also targeted Chinese students for special scrutiny amid a tense negotiation over tariffs and the supply of rare-earth metals and minerals to the United States.

The state department directive allowed diplomatic posts to resume the scheduling of interviews for educational and exchange visas, but added that consular officers would conduct a “comprehensive and thorough vetting” of all applicants applying for F, M and J visas.

“To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M and J non-immigrant visas will be asked to adjust the privacy settings on all their social media profiles to ‘public’”, the official said. “The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country.”
Andrew Roth in Washington
Wed 18 Jun 2025 21.36 BST https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/social-media-student-visa-screening
#metaglossia_mundus

Fluent in English, Spanish and Italian, Pope Leo XIV has so far preferred to speak Italian in public settings. Some Vatican analysts worry that he's missing the chance to reach a wider audience.

 

Lost in translation: Should US-born Pope Leo XIV speak in English more often?

 

BY PETER FEUERHERD

 

When Pope Leo XIV praised migrants on July 25 amid President Donald Trump's mass deportation policies causing unrest in Southern California and throughout the country, few Americans knew what he was saying.

 

Until his comments were translated into English..

 

Fluent in English, Spanish and Italian, Leo spoke his words in the one language least likely to be understood in the U.S. — Italian.

 

"In a world darkened by war and injustice, even when all seems lost," the polyglot pontiff from Chicago said in Italian, "their courage and tenacity bear heroic testimony to a faith that sees beyond what our eyes can see."

 

Later translated into English, Leo called upon communities to welcome migrants and refugees as "a living witness to hope" as they show "the promise of a present and a future where the dignity of all as children of God is recognized."

 

When Leo emerged on the world stage May 8, he spoke to the crowds from the center balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in English, Italian and Spanish. Born American, a native of a culture often maligned for being rigidly monolingual, the pope dazzled with his linguistic command.

 

There are an estimated 1.5 billion English speakers in the world, compared to 68 million Italian speakers. The Anglophone world extends around the globe, while Italian is largely confined to Italy.

 

Like his predecessor, Leo has preferred to speak Italian in public settings.

 

Some Vatican analysts worry that something is being lost in translation.

 

 

514:59 - August 09, 2025

 

Robert Mickens, a veteran Vatican watcher writing for UCA News, said that speaking in Italian dilutes the pope's impact. If he can speak other languages to a wider audience, he should. "A refusal to do so is, as scripture suggests, like hiding one's light under a bushel basket. This is certainly not an act of humility but one of irresponsibility," Mickens wrote.

 

In an email interview with the National Catholic Reporter, Mickens acknowledged that there is a potential downside if the pope speaks more English in public — likely pushback from the Italian-dominated Curia.

 

"The Italians are the ones who are really in opposition" to speaking English, Mickens said. "They are afraid of losing their control over the Church, and that control depends on Italian being the main language of the Roman Curia."

 

The first modern native Anglophone pope is missing out on an opportunity to expand his influence, Mickens said.

 

"Whether his Italian aides and minders like it or not, Leo should act quickly to ensure he's doing everything possible to reach that audience. That means he must not hesitate to use English on the world stage. He has no reason to apologize for this, nor is he obligated to justify it," Mickens wrote in his column.

 

Leo continues to communicate in the three languages he has mastered, most recently at the youth jubilee in Rome this summer. And when speaking to pilgrims from the Anglophone world, he will use his Chicago-accented American English.

 

 

Pope Leo XIV presides over a prayer vigil in Rome's Tor Vergata neighborhood Aug. 2, 2025, with hundreds of thousands of young people gathered for the Jubilee of Youth. (CNS/Vatican Media)

 

At the Jubilee of Youth in Rome Aug. 3, Leo addressed a crowd of 1 million in soft-spoken tones in three languages. In English, he told the young people, "There is a burning question in our hearts, a need for truth that we cannot ignore." He praised them for their search for Christ.

 

Yet when he recently condemned violence in Gaza, including the shelling of the only Catholic church by Israeli forces, Leo spoke in Italian.

 

Some Vatican watchers and advisers say there are good reasons why the pope prefers Italian.

 

Jesuit Fr. James Martin, editor-at-large for America magazine and consultant to the Dicastery for Communications for the Vatican, said in an interview with NCR that the message of the pope is important, not so much the language in which he communicates it.

 

"When speaking at the Vatican, and in settings like the Angelus, it makes sense that Pope Leo would speak Italian — he's the bishop of Rome, after all," Martin said.

 

"In English-speaking settings, he speaks English," Martin said. "And even when he is speaking mainly to the English-speaking world on topics like immigration, his remarks are immediately translated into English, so I don't think it's much of an issue.  What matters most is what the Holy Father says, not so much in what language he says it."

 

Christopher White, senior fellow at the Institute on Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University and former NCR Rome correspondent, said English is an effective way for the pope to communicate on world issues.

 

'Clips of him pleading for an end to war and condemning the barbarity that we are currently witnessing are far more likely to echo around the world if he is doing so in his mother tongue of English.'

 

The youth jubilee — seen as a coming-out event for the new pope to present his personality to the world — is a model. More English speakers should hear his voice, White said, as Leo addresses such issues as Gaza and immigration.

 

"The reach of the Italian language is limited," White said. "When he is making international appeals that he hopes will reverberate around the world, he should consider how his own language skills might be a real opportunity for the church. Clips of him pleading for an end to war and condemning the barbarity that we are currently witnessing are far more likely to echo around the world if he is doing so in his mother tongue of English."

 

Thomas F.X. Noble, emeritus professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, said Leo is carefully navigating the impact of being the first U.S. pope who also has experience in Rome and Peru and holds dual American and Peruvian citizenship.

 

"We have an American pope who was elected in large part because he is not exclusively American," Noble said.

 

While English is a dominant language, it is also "the world's most ideologically charged language," Noble said. "Were Leo to speak English often and publicly I suspect that he would attract unwelcome criticism as 'too American' or 'just an American.' "

 

Vanessa Corcoran, a professor of church history at Georgetown, said the language choices the pope has made so far make sense. She noted that during his video address aired at the ballpark for the White Sox, the pope spoke in Chicago-style English.

 

Corcoran noted that the pope has spent roughly a third of his life in the U.S., a third in Peru and the rest in Italy. So it is not surprising that he is seen as more of a worldwide figure, able to adjust his language for the appropriate audience.

 

It's easy to see why some Americans would prefer the pope to address issues in English, especially at a critical time in the United States where, she said, there is a need for a moral compass on issues such as immigration and Gaza.

 

But she said sometimes the most powerful messages transcend language. She noted that Pope Francis' most famous remark may have been his question "Who am I to judge?" It was originally said in Italian but quickly reverberated around the world.

 

Sometimes messaging transcends language.

 

For Leo, Corcoran said, the widely distributed photograph of him cleaning up after a Peruvian flood when he was a bishop there indicated to the world a church leader who is "the pope in the muddy boots," at ease mixing with the faithful.

 

"It's not to say that the pope's message doesn't have meaning in another language," Corcoran said. "He is the leader of the global church."

 

Much will hinge on the pope's travel schedule, which Corcoran and others say they hope will include a visit to the United States during the nation's 250th birthday. If he comes to the U.S., they said, Leo is sure to speak in a clear Midwestern English accent, with Spanish mixed in as well, reflecting the reality of the church in his native land."

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/lost-translation-should-us-born-pope-leo-xiv-speak-english-more-often

#metaglossia_mundus

"IQNA-Le vendredi 17 août, une cérémonie a eu lieu à Kuala Lumpur, capitale de la Malaisie, pour la présentation officielle de la traduction du Coran en langue russe. L’événement s’est tenu en présence du Premier ministre malaisien, Anwar Ibrahim.

 

Selon Bernama, dans son discours, Anwar Ibrahim a rappelé que la Malaisie, face au phénomène de l’islamophobie, choisit de répondre non par la colère ou la condamnation, mais par la connaissance, le dialogue et la diffusion du message coranique.

 

Il a cité l’exemple de l’incendie volontaire d’un exemplaire du Coran en Suède en 2023 : au lieu de réagir par la violence, la Malaisie a opté pour la distribution d’exemplaires du Coran.

 

La traduction en russe, réalisée par l’Institut malaisien d’édition du Coran « Restu », est la trentième langue couverte par ce projet. Elle s’inscrit dans l’initiative « Un million d’exemplaires du Coran », lancée en 2023 pour répondre aux actes de profanation.

 

En deux ans, ce programme a permis la traduction et la diffusion du Coran en 29 langues, dont l’anglais, le français, l’hindi, le haoussa et l’espagnol, afin de transmettre son message universel de miséricorde à travers le monde.

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14:59 - August 09, 2025

Code de l'info: 3493060

https://iqna.ir/fr/news/3493060/la-traduction-du-coran-en-russe-d%C3%A9voil%C3%A9e-en-malaisie

#metaglossia_mundus 

"Procès reportés faute d’interprète, audiences ralenties et un budget qui explose… La justice française fait face à une hausse inédite des besoins en traduction.

SOS, justice en détresse. Les tribunaux français font face à un besoin crucial de traducteurs pour gérer les centaines de langues qui sont parlés au sein des instances juridiques françaises.

Aujourd'hui en France, l'un des protagonistes ne maîtrise pas le français dans un procès sur cinq. «Nous avons une forte demande d'interprètes pour pouvoir assurer des procès de manière équitable, rapporte Alain Leroux, ancien magistrat. Vous ne pouvez pas interroger quelqu'un sans qu'il ne comprenne ce qu'on lui demande».

UN BUDGET COLOSSAL ET DES RÉPERCUSSIONS
«Le budget alloué est énorme», rappelle Alain Leroux. En 2024, près de 86 millions d’euros ont été dépensés dans ce domaine, soit 73 % de plus qu’il y a huit ans. Mais le problème persiste, et les professionnels sont toujours plus difficiles à trouver. Si 8.500 interprètes figurent officiellement sur les listes, tous ne travaillent pas à plein temps et d'autres ne sont pas toujours joignables.

«Si vous n'avez pas les interprètes à disposition, vous êtes obligés de faire un renvoi de l'affaire pour que l'interprète puisse être présent à l'audience», ajoute-t-il.

SUR LE MÊME SUJET
Tombe du Soldat inconnu profanée : l’homme qui a allumé sa cigarette avec la flamme condamné à 3 mois de prison avec sursis
LIRE
Cela conduit au report de nombreux procès, ou a des situations ubuesques et à la limite de la légalité, comme le recours à Google Traduction.

Pour faciliter le travail des magistrats, le ministère de la Justice envisage l'usage de l'intelligence artificielle."
JUSTICE : LES TRIBUNAUX FACE À UN MANQUE D'INTERPRÈTES
Par CNEWS
Publié le 09/08/2025 à 09:33 - Mis à jour le 09/08/2025 à 09:33
https://www.cnews.fr/videos/france/2025-08-09/justice-les-tribunaux-face-un-manque-dinterpretes-1722898
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"Abstract: A globalised world brings diversity into the classroom and internationalisation to higher education, where intercultural competence comes to the fore. Accommodating interculturality, however, extends beyond the international student cohort and includes heterogeneous domestic cultures, including Indigenous cultures. In the Australian context, historically Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have experienced limited access to culturally appropriate health, social and educational services. Accordingly, higher education institutions can be vehicles of change in this regard. More specifically, just as many higher education providers have moved towards internationalised curriculum, there is increasing evidence and intention to introduce Indigenised curriculum where respective educators delivering indigenised curricula need to be culturally competent. Institutions therefore, are offering cultural training programs for educators delivering Indigenised curricula, where recognition of Indigenous cultural competence amongst educators would be useful. Yet, the review presented in this paper demonstrates a gap in literature regarding measurement of cultural and intercultural competence in the context of Australian higher education. To that end, an instrument specifically designed to measure educator intercultural competence in Australia as related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is proposed. This instrument will enable higher education institutions to document educator Indigenous cultural competence, demonstrate the intercultural skills of their educational staff and continuously improve intercultural competency within the institution."

Navigating intercultural competence at home
Sharon Schembri
Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 21(4)
DOI: 10.53761/1m378720
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394361347_Navigating_intercultural_competence_at_home
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