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Growing Hispanic Market Motivates the Addition of More Spanish-Speaking Telephone Representatives HOUSTON, April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Due to the increasing demand for bilingual live answering services, Rite Response, a leading answering and call center services provider, decided to add several Spanish-speaking employees to their team of professional representatives and is planning to hire a few more. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130419/CG98189) With the...

After centuries of assimilating words from other languages, English is becoming an influence on those same languages. Spanish is an example of this new trend; linguists in Spanish-speaking countries now recognize various English words as part of the legitimate Spanish lexicon with no changes to spelling or pronunciation. New York City, NY (PRWEB) March 30, 2013 Software developers eReflect, the creators of Ultimate Spelling, announce that words from the English language are gaining...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com You can do a lot of really cool things when you have a ton of cash. Take Jeff Bezos, for instance. The Amazon CEO has been a fan of space and space travel since he was a boy. So, using his massive fortune, he created a team dedicated to finding the Apollo 11 engines which had been lost in the Atlantic ocean for over 40 years. Taking a more anthropologic approach, Google announced on Thursday they will launch the Endangered Languages Project, dedicated to...

http://www.merrillbrink.com: Few US-based firms targeting the domestic market cannot afford to overlook the growing Hispanic population on their doorstep and translating their website into Spanish should be a priority. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 18, 2012 Few US-based firms targeting the domestic market can afford to overlook the growing Hispanic population on their doorstep and translating their website into Spanish should be a priority. Many businesses have struggled to identify areas of...

MONTEREY, Calif., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from Language Line Services, the world's largest provider of language services, reveals that between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012, Arabic, Mandarin and Vietnamese were the top spoken languages in the United States after Spanish. The quarterly Language Line® LanguageTrak "Interpreter Demand Index" uses proprietary data from 20 million over-the-phone interpretation-request calls the company fields annually in 170-plus languages. The...

MONTEREY, Calif., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from Language Line Services, the global leader in language access solutions, reveals that between Q4 2010 and Q4 2011, Arabic and Vietnamese trailed only Spanish as the most-requested languages for over-the-phone interpretations nationwide. The quarterly Language Line® LanguageTrak "Interpreter Demand Index(SM)" uses proprietary data from millions of interpretation-request calls the company fields annually in 170-plus...

The European Union has 27 member countries and 23 official languages, but its official business is carried out primarily in one language — English. Yet the striking findings of a new study show that barely a third of the EU’s 500 million citizens speak English. What about the other two-thirds? They are linguistically disenfranchised, say the study’s authors. For the EU’s non-English speakers, their native languages are of limited use in the EU’s political, legal, communal and...

Dancing, Singing and Drumming Performances Honor the Wisconsin Tribe's Heritage WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian celebrates Menominee Nation Cultural Day, with traditional song, dance, drumming and storytelling Saturday, Dec. 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For thousands of years, the Menominee tribe has made its home in the region now known as Wisconsin, as well as parts of Michigan and Illinois, where it...

[ Watch the Video ] Educator develops multimedia tools to share Ojibwe language and culture University of Minnesota Duluth education professor Mary Hermes says saving an endangered language goes beyond just enriching the people who speak it. "I think people have got to get beyond thinking it's just for the Ojibwe people, that we want to save their Ojibwe language. There's 10,000 years of human evolution and knowledge in that language," she says. With support from the National...

BISMARCK, N.D., June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Herbert J. Wilson of Bismarck has been awarded the Bernard Gregory Award for Diversity by the American Lung Association. Walker, 90, provided care to members of the Mandan, Arikara and Hidatsa tribal communities at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation for more than 50 years. Originally from New England, Dr. Wilson was assigned to the North Dakota reservation in the early 1950s under a one-year obligation with the United States Public...