Simultaneous interpreters are in great demand in Shanghai. For the upcoming 2010 World Expo, multilinguists are training hard and cashing in on the city's need for talent. Of course, not everyone has ...

The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time interpreting of one language to another. Yet human interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the neuroscientists who are ...

Post written by François Grosjean. Have you ever sat down in an interpreter's booth, put on the headphones and tried to interpret the incoming speech? I did when I was a young and rather naive student ...