http://www.k12translate.com/Blog online educational translation, online translation site Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:02:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’d like to extend a special thank you to all who participated in K12Translate’s recent Education Translation Trends Survey. We’ve tallied the results and I thought I’d share some of the highlights with our readers. Of course, you can download a free copy of the entire report here: Translation Trends ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/education-translation-trends/ Among the myriad challenges facing the nation’s school districts is the mounting costs of their multilingual communications. Yet with over 20% of the U.S. population speaking a language other than English, ensuring that your school’s information be made available in a language your students and parents understand is critical. The ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/develop-strategies-for-avoiding-translation-traps/ Today Russian is primarily spoken in Russia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once part of the USSR, where it was widely taught in school. However, younger generations may not be fluent in it, because Russian is no longer mandatory in the school system. It was ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/russian-language-overview-%e2%80%93-part-ii/ Today I want to write about a language that is very close to my own heart considering I spent my entire undergraduate career studying it. This beautiful, complex language is Russian and has led to my personal love affair of the literature and culture. Russian is the most widely spoken ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/russian-language-overview-%e2%80%93-part-i/ Having worked in the field of education translation for the past decade, I have witnessed the rise of multilingual technology in leaps and bounds. Gone are the days when bilingual parents would handwrite informative memos and translate parent newsletters for ESL communities. Instead, school districts work hand-in-hand with professional native ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/lao-tigrinya-burmese-fonts-%e2%80%93-oh-my/ Today is the last day to apply for Federal aid from the Race to the Top fund which has been put in place by the Obama Administration. There are approximately 4.3 billion dollars available for 40 states across the country to create innovative reform programs for their school districts. However, ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/will-ell-students-be-left-behind-in-the-race-to-the-top/ It is with a very heavy heart this morning that I read about the national disaster in Haiti. With tens of thousands of lives lost in the impoverished Caribbean nation, I am reeling over the devastation caused by the 7.3 earthquake. Approximately 850,000 -1 million people living in the United ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/haitian-earthquake-disaster/ I just wanted to share some exciting news … our parent company, viaLanguage, has just acquired one of their long-time strategic business partner, Planet Productions, Inc. It’s very exciting news and we couldn’t be happier to welcome them into our viaLanguage family! Our brand-new e-Learning and web-based training “sibling” will operate ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/the-k12translate-family-expands-as-vialanguage-acquires-planet-productions/ Sometimes it can really help to pool your resources and documents within your district or sister-education organizations. If several schools within your larger district send out the same document and only the school name or phone numbers change, consider translating a document to use as a template throughout your district. ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/budgeting-for-education-translation-sharing-documents-across-school-districts/ Are there documents your school district uses that require small updates every year, but the majority of the text stays the same? For instance, does your district send out registration forms every single year in Spanish, Vietnamese and Russian but only the date changes? Or did your district spend $10,000 ... http://www.k12translate.com/Blog/budgeting-for-education-translation-leveraging-past-translations-and-maximizing-existing-translations/