German-Swedish translator since 1995. Occasional keynote speaker. Language nerd. Member of SFÖ-SAT (SE), founding & honorary member of DVÜD (DE). 3rd last Curator of Sweden back in 2018. That guy who founded Things Translators Never Say on FB. #xl8
Erik Hansson
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#AI for Europe, in Europe’s own languages
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#regional #minority #languages #langsky
How #climate shapes the meanings of words across languages
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#langsky
<And here's the most surprising news of the day.>
MachineTranslation.com Finds Single AI Models Unreliable in Low-Resource Languages
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#captainobvious #langsky
Tibetan Community of Switzerland and Liechtenstein Celebrates the 11th #Tibetan Language Day in Winterthur, Switzerland
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#Tibet #minority #language #langsky
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Das Auswärtige Amt sucht eine/n #Übersetzer*in, eine/n #Dolmetscher*in (m/w/d) als lokal Beschäftigte/r für den Spachendienst an der Deutschen Botschaft in Rom befristet für ein Jahr in Vollzeit:
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#xl8 #1nt
Learning a language at 40: the brutal truth
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#languagelearning #langsky
How #Emojis Have Become a Language Within a Language in China
www.sixthtone.com/news/1018611
via @sixthtone.bsky.social
#code #language #China #langsky
Iraqi, British and Swedish Universities launch Arabic interface project for study of Beth Nahrain #cuneiform inscriptions
syriacpress.com/blog/2026/06...
#ancient #language #history #langsky
Can AI help us save endangered languages?
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#ai #endangered #language #langsky
#Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Malaysia: choosing the language of unity.
Bahasa Indonesia, the national language of Indonesia, or basically the Indonesianised version of Malay, the fourth most spoken language in the world.
www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opi...
#language #identity #nation #langsky
Erik Hansson
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MachineTranslation.com runs 22 independent AI models at once on every translation request across all 330+ languages it supports
Geneva: On 6 June 2026, the Tibetan Community of Switzerland and Liechtenstein (TCSL) celebrated the 11th Tibetan Language Day in Winterthur, Switzerland, bringing together hundreds of Tibetan childre...
As AI reshapes Europe’s digital future, many regional and minority languages risk being left behind. Open innovation could help make technology mor...
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When English speakers say "rose" and Chinese speakers say "玫瑰," do they mean the same thing? A Peking University team led by Professor Bi Yanchao explored this question using word embeddings from 53 l...
Die Deutsche Botschaft sucht voraussichtlich zum 1. Oktober 2026 einen Übersetzer/eine Übersetzerin / einen Dolmetscher/eine Dolmetscherin (m/w/d) als lokal Beschäftigte/r für den ...
They moved abroad with good intentions and Duolingo streaks. Here is what actually happened when expats tried to learn a language past 40.
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Ever since emojis became part of everyday lexicon, the Chinese internet has been rife with wordplay and absurdist substitution. But are they bringing people together, or pushing them further apart?
BETH NAHRAIN / WORLD — No one in the world today, regardless of nationality or religion, can deny the cuneiform inscriptions and writings for which the civilizations of Beth Nahrain (Mesopotamia) beca...
The battle over the name of the language has yo-yoed a little bit, driven by pragmatism and nationalism, nation-building and cultural identity, nation versus race.
