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One breakthrough has been to harvest text and speech from the web, in the form of news articles, blogs and videos. Thanks to users all over the world posting content in their mother tongues, there is a growing mass of online data for many low-resource languages.

"If you search the internet, and you want data in Somali, you get hundreds of millions of words, no problem," says Scott Miller, a computer scientist at the University of Southern California who co-leads one of the research teams working on this. "You can get text in almost any language in fairly large quantities on the web."

This online data tends to be monolingual, meaning that the Somali articles or videos are just in that language, and don't come with a parallel English translation. But Miller says neural network models can be pre-trained on such monolingual data in many different languages.

It is thought that during their pre-training, the neural models learn certain structures and features of human language in general, which they can then apply to a translation task. What these are is a bit of a mystery. "No one really knows what structures these models really learn," says Miller. "They have millions of parameters."

But once pre-trained on many languages, the neural models can learn to translate between individual languages using very little bilingual training material, known as parallel data. A few hundred thousand words of parallel data are enough – about the length of a few novels.

Context-less internet-sourced data sets are how we got to unintended bias in modeling so it will be interesting to see how they handle that.

A couple of articles for further reading:

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This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix - Technology Review

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I have been asked to comment on Sweden’s handling of the Corona Virus/Covid-19 pandemic and why Sweden has opted to go a different way from the rest of Europe and our immediate neighbors and, frankly, most of the countries in the world that have experienced an outbreak of the virus. 

Let me first begin by saying that this is written by someone who is not an epidemiologist, nor in no way even remotely associated with any medical profession. This is my interpretation and shall in no way what so ever be taken at a weight even slightly near the official information of the Swedish government or Folkhälsoinstitutet (the “peoples health institute” is the direct translation) the government organization that is responsible for handling the current crisis. Official information is available HERE (in English). 

As I write this (April 11, 7p.m) the current statistics are as follows: Confirmed number of infected in Sweden: 10 151 Confirmed deaths: 887 People currently in intensive care: 774 Source: Folkhälsomyndigheten (updated April 11, 14.02) In case anyone is interested in the total spread of contamination and of deaths over the country I will add a picture at the end of this post. Now, let’s get on to the topic proper.

Early on in the decision was made to fokus on protecting the risk groups in the Swedish society – meaning that protecting the elderly and the sick was the number one focus on the plan to battle the virus. People above the age of 70 were told to self isolate and only go out to get the essentials. Everyone were encouraged to not visit the elderly in order to keep the risk of infecting them as low as possible. At the same time everyone that showed even the slightest symptoms: sniffles, a headache, a sore throat – where told to go into self isolation until they had been free of symptoms for at least two days. We were encouraged to help each other in those situations, friends and family doing some shopping and delivering groceries and essentials, or just doing online shopping. At the same time the government issued a decree that all higher education – meaning High school and university – education that is not mandatory, should be conducted as distance education. However, schools in year 1 to 9 were still to be open as usual (and still are). The reason for keeping the schools open for the younger children is that 1, children are not a primary carrier of the virus and 2, as a mean to make sure that essential functions in society will have staff – primarily the health care sector. If the schools close down then the parents will have to stay at home in order to care for them. 

Where Sweden has differed from the rest of the world in the most obvious way is that we have not gone into a full lockdown mode. We are still, if we feel healthy and don’t have any symtoms, encouraged to go out and to meet friends, go to restaurants and the like – one of the reasons is that we need to have a slow, semi controlled spread in society in order to create a herd immunity – the people that are currently moving around are primarily those that are not in the risk groups – they will, if they catch the virus, get a mild infection – or, as in my case, a semi mild infection, but they will not need to visit the hospital or get medical treatment other than which you can get from online consultations. This is important to slow down, but not to stop, the spread of the virus in society at large. If we completely stop the spread the risk is that it will come back again, and at force, as soon as the quarantine is lifted – it is better, according to the Swedish authorities, to allow the infection to spread at a slow pace and create a wider immunity whilst keeping the groups that are at risk of needing intensive care or facing death if infected as safe as possible. 

Many companies have started different work from home programs letting their employees do just that, it seems to work well. The company that run the public transport has a campaign out now that states that “if you are not an essential worker, please don’t travel with us right now”. People are complying. We are still out and about, we take walks, we visit friends – sometimes even go out for a beer. But in general it is, as expected, much more sombre. We stay at home – because we do not want to risk to get infected or accidentally spreading it to someone we love or care about – or someone we don’t know. 

Other actions that have been taken is that there is a limit on the size of groups of people that can gather. It started out at a 500 person limit, which has now been lowered to 50 people. We are no longer allowed to order alcohol at bars, it is only table service allowed, and the tables must be “well spaced”. Right now the authorities are out and checking that restaurants follow the guidelines. If they don’t they will be forced to close. In general I would say that people do follow the guidelines. We are generally fairly well behaved like that. The Germans of the north, we are. We have trust in the machine – which is the reason why the person that is in the lime light during this trying time is not the King nor the prime minister, but rather a middle level management bureaucrat: Anders Tegnell – the chief Epidemiologist at Folkhälsoinstitutet. 

The reason for this trust in the machine depends on many things I’d say. We have historically had a large state with a fairly large control system – the unofficial motto of the Social Democrat party has been “trust in the state, we will make it right”. Another aspect is that we have not really been in a war since 1809 (we don’t count the Norwegian campaign of 1814 because: Norway). We have not needed the consolidating power of a church or a sovereign to help us through trying times, and times of national crisis – as so many countries experienced during the 20th century. Sweden came through the wars unscathed, for good and for bad. And it has made us into a people of secular individualist with a strong belief in a all knowing state. Silly paradoxes we are.

So, now to the important stuff: has this tactic worked. Yes and no, I am sad to say. The goal of keeping the number of cases that need intensive care and hospitalization down as to not over crowd the hospitals have worked. There is still ample room at the intensive care units around the country. The staff are working like madmen and they deserve all the recognition that they get for their hard work. Unfortunately the authorities did not quite count on the virus getting such a grip on the treatment homes for the elderly as it has. There has been a fairly wide spread of the disease in nursing homes across the country, leading to a large number of deaths. Also, the information about the disease in languages other than Swedish were slow to get spread leading to an unusually large representation of hospitalizations and deaths of people with other ethnical backgrounds; especially the Syrian/Assyrian-Swedish population and the Somali-Swedish population have been hard struck – many of the cases being linked to large weddings and funerals that occurred just before the pandemic started. The availability of information has been bettered since then, but naturally that is of very little comfort when loved ones are getting sick and dying. 

Another tragedy is that is not limited to Sweden alone is that the people that are most sensitive to this disease are the elderly – and don’t think that I am putting anyone infront of another, but I have to say a particular part of this tragedy is that with our elder our history die – we have seen a large number of holocaust survivors pass the last days and weeks here in Sweden, and I am sure that we are not the only country where this has happened, and with them the voice of a horrible past die forever. We must be aware that this tragedy does not just strike us personally, when a loved one dies – but also as a human collective when the voices of the past slip away from us. 

We are in a time now where it is more important than ever to remember. 

As promised: a map. The left column is number of infected, the right column is reported deaths. Oh, and I should mention that we do not have mandatory testing for corona virus in Sweden. The decision was taken early on to only test the ones that were in need of hospitalization. So the number of infected are much likely higher.

If you have any questions, please send them to me and I will try to answer them, but please remember: I know nothing, really. 

Update: I got a question about the age of the people that have died in Covid-19 in Sweden to date, and I did a quick search and found the following numbers on the official website (in Swedish): 1-9 yo: 0 10-19 yo: 0 20-29 yo: 3 30-39 yo: 2 40-49 yo: 4 50-59 yo: 34 60-69 yo: 64 70-79 yo: 228 80-89 yo: 362 90+: 190

Here is a picture of the live update page linked above with a quick English translation of the key items in case you want to check the page out for yourself.

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Approximately 5.3 million U.S. households have limited English proficiency, according to the U.S. Census 2019 American Community Survey. And, it found, nearly 68 million people speak a language other than English at home.

The CDC’s website for covid-19 vaccine information is comprehensively translated into four languages: Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese. The federal agency has drafted other flyers about vaccines, but which languages the materials are available in varies considerably. A “Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines” flyer is translated into nearly two dozen languages, including Arabic, French, Tagalog, Russian, Somali and Urdu. Other documents are not translated at all; if they are, Spanish is the most common translation.

“It’s really concerning that the information is not available in different languages,” said Bert Bayou, director of the Washington, D.C., chapter of African Communities Together, which works with immigrants across the metropolitan area.

Virginia in mid-February released a centralized online preregistration system and a new hotline for vaccinations, a full month after residents 65 and older and those with certain medical conditions could register for appointments. As of mid-March, the state health department’s portal could be translated only into Spanish, spoken by nearly 8% of the state’s population. Similarly, the District of Columbia’s vaccine preregistration website that launched this month was initially available only in English, although officials were working to have it translated into additional languages before the month is out.

Any agency that fails to inform limited-English speakers of how to access their services — in this case, vaccinations — could be found to have violated federal laws that prohibit discrimination in health care on the basis of race, color, national origin and other factors, said Mara Youdelman, a managing attorney at the National Health Law Program, a civil rights advocacy organization.

“If they launch a website and they choose not to have it translated into multiple languages, I would say at a minimum that they should have some taglines on the webpage about where to get more information,” Youdelman said. Even beyond the law, making the vaccination process as accessible as possible to non-English speakers is “the necessary thing to do and the right thing to do.”

Otherwise, she said, “we’re not going to reach the herd immunity we all want and need to get life back to normal.”

Fairfax County, the most populous county in Virginia, maintained its own registration portal, but officials only on March 15 launched a Spanish registration website, two months after the state significantly broadened vaccine eligibility. In the interim, Spanish speakers had been directed to download a PDF questionnaire, and then call a phone line to relay their information for an eventual appointment. Roughly 14% of the county’s population identifies as Spanish-speaking, according to the 2019 American Community Survey.

In Virginia, many immigrants are left with the heavily promoted VAX-IN-VA hotline, where access to interpretation services was uneven. The state eventually added a “press 3” menu option for help in a different language — although the “press 2” and “press 3” prompts are spoken in English — that allowed non-English and non-Spanish speakers to more easily connect with interpreters in more than 100 languages.

Yet their needs often fall to the back of the line because the languages are so discrete and, after Spanish, there’s no “obvious” third language that’s prioritized, Oh said. Census data shows that more than 1.3 million Virginians speak a language other than English at home, including about 310,000 who speak Asian and Pacific Island languages and 295,000 who speak Indo-European languages.

A state spokesperson said that, upon reviewing call logs, in some situations the callers were the ones who may have hung up while on hold, and other times call center agents may have accidentally hung up. Records showed that this occurred fewer than 10 times, mostly all during the first week.

“We had a small handful of issues but looking forward we have not uncovered any ongoing issues,” Vaccinate Virginia spokesperson Dena Potter wrote in an email. She did not respond to questions about whether state officials planned to translate Virginia’s preregistration portal into other languages and whether the system might violate federal civil rights laws.

Nationally, Asian Americans have had lower covid mortality rates than other minorities, including Black and Latino Americans. However, there are troubling signs that underscore the urgency to boost vaccination rates. According to data compiled by the American Public Media Research Lab, the four-week period between early February and early March was the deadliest stretch of the pandemic for Asian, Latino, white and Indigenous Americans. Roughly 3,730 new deaths were reported among Asian Americans. Among Hispanics, 16,780 new deaths were reported.

To figure out whether they’re eligible and to get vaccine appointments, non-English speakers rely on the clinics that treat them, English-speaking friends and family, and other nonprofits that serve immigrant communities. Without reliable information across languages, health centers and other nonprofits worry about what fills the void: Rumors and false information proliferate not only on U.S. social media platforms but apps like WhatsApp and WeChat used around the world.

“They’re not your Facebook and your Instagram chats,” said Andrea Caracostis, CEO of the HOPE Clinic in Houston, a federally qualified health center that treats patients from at least 60 countries. “I think language issues and misinformation from abroad is going to erode a lot of the work that we do.”

The Houston area is home to one of the largest Vietnamese populations in the country. In late January, the clinic prioritized Vietnamese seniors for shots after receiving about 500 doses from the city. To make it happen, Caracostis said, they partnered with local Vietnamese doctors, nurses and even medical students to help. Clinic staff members translated immunization release forms before patients showed up.

“It’s going to take a village,” she said.

Groups are assembling teams of volunteers to make preregistration calls and appointments, and setting up pop-up registration sites in church parking lots in poorer neighborhoods.

“You can answer questions right on the spot,” said Wanda Pierce, co-chair of Arlington County’s Complete Vaccination Committee, a 40-plus-person group formed to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines in that Virginia suburb of Washington. County officials have organized preregistration pop-ups, typically done alongside other services for low-income residents, such as clothing and food distribution. A recent pop-up held at Macedonia Baptist Church, a Black church in a lower-income area of the county, saw a handful of limited-English speakers preregister for vaccines, according to organizers.

Recent polling has found that vaccine hesitancy is dipping among minority groups; however, they are still more likely to take a “wait and see” approach than white Americans. And many are struggling to secure appointments.

A March poll from KFF found that among adults who have gotten at least one dose of vaccine, 39% said someone else had helped them find or schedule an appointment. Hispanic adults were more likely than white adults to say they did not have enough information about where or when they could get vaccinated.

Spanish-language needs and outreach to Latinos haven’t been adequately prioritized, said Luis Angel Aguilar, the Virginia state director of CASA. In addition to language access, “there’s not enough communication and information now on where and who to call,” he said.

“It’s so easy for people to give up and say, ‘You know, I tried,’” added Nancy White, president of the Arlington Free Clinic, which treats low-income minorities and counts Spanish, Mongolian and Amharic speakers among its patients.

The clinic, instead of signing up patients through Virginia’s preregistration portal, is using its own system to get its patients vaccinated since the clinic receives an allocation of doses directly from the county. After an early pilot program to vaccinate seniors 75 and older, Arlington Free Clinic this month began vaccinating people 65 and up and those with chronic medical conditions. It relies on over 100 volunteer interpreters to help patients navigate the health care system.

“You can do it,” White said of getting around language issues, “but it takes a lot of time and a lot of manpower.”

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‘Press 1 for English’: Vaccination Sign-Ups Prove Daunting for Speakers of Other Languages

In late February, a week after Virginia launched a centralized website and call center for covid-19 vaccine preregistration, Zowee Aquino alerted the state to a glitch that could prove fatal for non-English speakers trying to secure a shot.

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Callers who requested an interpreter on its new 1-877-VAX-IN-VA hotline would be put on hold briefly and then patched through. Then the line would automatically hang up on them.

It was a startling discovery for Aquino, a community health manager, and her colleagues at NAKASEC Virginia, a nonprofit that works with Asian Americans across the state. The glitch was a “direct barrier to access,” she wrote to senior state officials, “and must be addressed immediately.”

But that wasn’t the only problem. Only two languages were offered when callers dialed in — “press 1 for English” or “press 2 for Spanish.” But Virginia is home to speakers of many other languages — Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic, Mongolian, Amharic and dozens more — who would need the help of translators to get their place in line for a vaccine.

“There’s so much attention to, let’s translate flyers, right? We’re like, what’s the point of translating a flyer that says you can call ‘VAX in VA’ and we have all these languages, when the phone line doesn’t work consistently, or it’s not even set up well for non-English, non-Spanish-speaking populations?” said Sookyung Oh, the group’s Virginia director.

Concerns about equity have loomed large in the nation’s mass covid vaccination effort. Distribution of doses has been spotty among underserved populations, many of whom have been hit disproportionately by covid hospitalizations and deaths. As Aquino found, barriers to vaccinating those groups begin with providing basic information about the shots and getting people registered.

Several individuals in interviews said the immigrant populations they work with, including Asians and Latinos, are eager to be vaccinated. But the barriers are steep, including lower rates of technology literacy and how well they speak English, if at all.

“Especially in stressful situations, they are not trying to struggle through English,” said Oh, who described trying to secure a vaccine appointment for her mother — a Korean woman who lives in Philadelphia — as a “complete clusterf***” because the city’s registration portal isn’t available in that language.

President Joe Biden announced this month that by May 1 the federal government would launch a website and new call center to help people find vaccine appointments, but officials have declined to elaborate on whether the website will be translated into non-English languages and which languages will be available through the call center. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to questions about language access.

Approximately 5.3 million U.S. households have limited English proficiency, according to the U.S. Census 2019 American Community Survey. And, it found, nearly 68 million people speak a language other than English at home.

The CDC’s website for covid-19 vaccine information is comprehensively translated into four languages: Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese. The federal agency has drafted other flyers about vaccines, but which languages the materials are available in varies considerably. A “Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines” flyer is translated into nearly two dozen languages, including Arabic, French, Tagalog, Russian, Somali and Urdu. Other documents are not translated at all; if they are, Spanish is the most common translation.

“It’s really concerning that the information is not available in different languages,” said Bert Bayou, director of the Washington, D.C., chapter of African Communities Together, which works with immigrants across the metropolitan area.

Virginia in mid-February released a centralized online preregistration system and a new hotline for vaccinations, a full month after residents 65 and older and those with certain medical conditions could register for appointments. As of mid-March, the state health department’s portal could be translated only into Spanish, spoken by nearly 8% of the state’s population. Similarly, the District of Columbia’s vaccine preregistration website that launched this month was initially available only in English, although officials were working to have it translated into additional languages before the month is out.

Any agency that fails to inform limited-English speakers of how to access their services — in this case, vaccinations — could be found to have violated federal laws that prohibit discrimination in health care on the basis of race, color, national origin and other factors, said Mara Youdelman, a managing attorney at the National Health Law Program, a civil rights advocacy organization.

“If they launch a website and they choose not to have it translated into multiple languages, I would say at a minimum that they should have some taglines on the webpage about where to get more information,” Youdelman said. Even beyond the law, making the vaccination process as accessible as possible to non-English speakers is “the necessary thing to do and the right thing to do.”

Otherwise, she said, “we’re not going to reach the herd immunity we all want and need to get life back to normal.”

Fairfax County, the most populous county in Virginia, maintained its own registration portal, but officials only on March 15 launched a Spanish registration website, two months after the state significantly broadened vaccine eligibility. In the interim, Spanish speakers had been directed to download a PDF questionnaire, and then call a phone line to relay their information for an eventual appointment. Roughly 14% of the county’s population identifies as Spanish-speaking, according to the 2019 American Community Survey.

In Virginia, many immigrants are left with the heavily promoted VAX-IN-VA hotline, where access to interpretation services was uneven. The state eventually added a “press 3” menu option for help in a different language — although the “press 2” and “press 3” prompts are spoken in English — that allowed non-English and non-Spanish speakers to more easily connect with interpreters in more than 100 languages.

Yet their needs often fall to the back of the line because the languages are so discrete and, after Spanish, there’s no “obvious” third language that’s prioritized, Oh said. Census data shows that more than 1.3 million Virginians speak a language other than English at home, including about 310,000 who speak Asian and Pacific Island languages and 295,000 who speak Indo-European languages.

A state spokesperson said that, upon reviewing call logs, in some situations the callers were the ones who may have hung up while on hold, and other times call center agents may have accidentally hung up. Records showed that this occurred fewer than 10 times, mostly all during the first week.

“We had a small handful of issues but looking forward we have not uncovered any ongoing issues,” Vaccinate Virginia spokesperson Dena Potter wrote in an email. She did not respond to questions about whether state officials planned to translate Virginia’s preregistration portal into other languages and whether the system might violate federal civil rights laws.

Nationally, Asian Americans have had lower covid mortality rates than other minorities, including Black and Latino Americans. However, there are troubling signs that underscore the urgency to boost vaccination rates. According to data compiled by the American Public Media Research Lab, the four-week period between early February and early March was the deadliest stretch of the pandemic for Asian, Latino, white and Indigenous Americans. Roughly 3,730 new deaths were reported among Asian Americans. Among Hispanics, 16,780 new deaths were reported.

To figure out whether they’re eligible and to get vaccine appointments, non-English speakers rely on the clinics that treat them, English-speaking friends and family, and other nonprofits that serve immigrant communities. Without reliable information across languages, health centers and other nonprofits worry about what fills the void: Rumors and false information proliferate not only on U.S. social media platforms but apps like WhatsApp and WeChat used around the world.

“They’re not your Facebook and your Instagram chats,” said Andrea Caracostis, CEO of the HOPE Clinic in Houston, a federally qualified health center that treats patients from at least 60 countries. “I think language issues and misinformation from abroad is going to erode a lot of the work that we do.”

The Houston area is home to one of the largest Vietnamese populations in the country. In late January, the clinic prioritized Vietnamese seniors for shots after receiving about 500 doses from the city. To make it happen, Caracostis said, they partnered with local Vietnamese doctors, nurses and even medical students to help. Clinic staff members translated immunization release forms before patients showed up.

“It’s going to take a village,” she said.

Groups are assembling teams of volunteers to make preregistration calls and appointments, and setting up pop-up registration sites in church parking lots in poorer neighborhoods.

“You can answer questions right on the spot,” said Wanda Pierce, co-chair of Arlington County’s Complete Vaccination Committee, a 40-plus-person group formed to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines in that Virginia suburb of Washington. County officials have organized preregistration pop-ups, typically done alongside other services for low-income residents, such as clothing and food distribution. A recent pop-up held at Macedonia Baptist Church, a Black church in a lower-income area of the county, saw a handful of limited-English speakers preregister for vaccines, according to organizers.

Recent polling has found that vaccine hesitancy is dipping among minority groups; however, they are still more likely to take a “wait and see” approach than white Americans. And many are struggling to secure appointments.

A March poll from KFF found that among adults who have gotten at least one dose of vaccine, 39% said someone else had helped them find or schedule an appointment. Hispanic adults were more likely than white adults to say they did not have enough information about where or when they could get vaccinated.

Spanish-language needs and outreach to Latinos haven’t been adequately prioritized, said Luis Angel Aguilar, the Virginia state director of CASA. In addition to language access, “there’s not enough communication and information now on where and who to call,” he said.

“It’s so easy for people to give up and say, ‘You know, I tried,’” added Nancy White, president of the Arlington Free Clinic, which treats low-income minorities and counts Spanish, Mongolian and Amharic speakers among its patients.

The clinic, instead of signing up patients through Virginia’s preregistration portal, is using its own system to get its patients vaccinated since the clinic receives an allocation of doses directly from the county. After an early pilot program to vaccinate seniors 75 and older, Arlington Free Clinic this month began vaccinating people 65 and up and those with chronic medical conditions. It relies on over 100 volunteer interpreters to help patients navigate the health care system.

“You can do it,” White said of getting around language issues, “but it takes a lot of time and a lot of manpower.”

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

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The hunger for news among Colorado’s immigrant and refugee communities In the age of COVID, the Rocky Mountain Welcome Center shifts to become a multilingual, multicultural information hub

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Colorado News

Dear reader,

Before the pandemic and all that has spiraled from it — the quarantines, the distancing, the business closures, the lost work and childcare, the how-do-I-pay-the-bills-and-feed-the-kids panic — Diana Higuera and Jennifer Gueddiche had a plan.

It was a good plan.

Together, they run the Aurora-based Rocky Mountain Welcome Center, a nonprofit that helps integrate immigrants, refugees and those seeking or who have received asylum into this country. The center focuses on early childhood education and literacy, which are Higuera’s passion, and on the social and emotional well-being of young adults, work that is close to Gueddiche’s heart.

Higuera opened RMWC in October 2017 in the Mountain View United Church and welcomed to the space other nonprofit partners that served newcomers in various ways across many cultures and languages. Here you might find English language classes, a support group for East African mothers, leadership training, in addition to the center’s own pre-K and kinder classes.

Pre-COVID, the plan was to expand their work, to zero in further on mental health and trauma, to hold regular community forums to allow immigrants and refugees to share their stories with each other and with non-immigrants.

“We want to create welcoming communities and to do that, to build the two-way street, the immigrants have to learn the ropes and understand our culture and we have to understand what they and their people are coming from,” Gueddiche says.

But their services were largely face-to-face and the face-to-face world disappeared behind a mask and computer screen and “our work changed 180 degrees,” Higuera says.

In a meeting before quarantine started and before they closed up their offices, they decided they would become a multi-lingual, multicultural information hub for immigrants “because we knew that no one was going to do that.”

The local Somali community, for example, was getting its COVID-19 information from social media channels based in Somalia and in Minneapolis, where the U.S.’s largest concentration of Somalis live. And while that information was not necessarily wrong, it was not Colorado-specific. So, the Welcome Center turned to its community outreach workers and partners and translators and “we went to our website and created a page to put COVID information in 18 languages and we were updating it daily, with whatever new information was coming out,” Higuera says. They did something similar on the center’s Facebook page, using video and expanding the range of information.

They knew they were on the right track when a COVID video they produced in the Karen language for a segment of the Burmese community racked up 2,000 views. “They are hungry for information,” Higuera says.

Thanks in part to a grant from the Colorado Media Project, one of our founding partners in COLab, Higuera will start feeding that hunger for information by appearing every Thursday at 8 a.m. on Rodolfo Cardenas’ Hablemos Hoy in a segment called Perspectivas on 1150 AM.

She doesn’t want to talk numbers. She wants to talk about how families cope when bus lines are cut due to COVID and now mom can’t get to work or her child to school. She wants to talk about how a parent who has limited English skills and spotty internet is supposed to guide her child in online learning. She wants to hear from listeners.

As one of 10 recipients of the Media Project’s Informed Communities grants, Higuera and Gueddiche are also now joining the larger weekly COLab meetings among dozens of Colorado newsrooms. While they have mostly been listening, they are ready to speak, to guide, to inform, to connect.

I cannot tell you how critical this is. A larger conversation is happening among journalists and the public around coverage of communities that long have gone uncovered or not been covered well, the result of ignorance or arrogance, of newsroom blind spots and deaf ears, of the subjectivity that disguises itself as objectivity in largely white newsrooms. That conversation, reflective, earnest, defensive at times, angry and anguished at others, is a reckoning. It is a call to do better inside newsrooms and outside them by better connecting to the communities we cover,

This is hard, necessary, long-overdue work. It requires both traditional and nontraditional answers. It’s why the Media Project put money into the Informed Communities grantees, why it is backing FreePress’s News Voices: Colorado, why COLab is finding ways we can all work together. And why Susan and I have been merging The Colorado Independent into COLab.

If this mission inspires you, let us know if you are interested in serving on COLab’s board to help grow our new organization and expand the reach of stories for and about immigrants and other overlooked communities statewide.

There are stories out there demanding to be told, stories, as Gueddiche puts it, of people who are “not falling through the cracks, but off the edge.” There are stories that will make us all better neighbors, stronger communities, more engaged citizens. Your support helps us in this effort.

The pandemic changed Higuera’s and Gueddiche’s plans. What comes from that change and what may endure beyond the pandemic should not be seen as a setback, but as an opportunity for a shared step forward.

Thank you,

Tina

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Top 10 Tools To Find English To Amharic Translation With Sound

The world has come a long way, which is why we should not have to worry about linguistic barriers in 2020. People can’t afford to hire a linguistic expert every time they have to communicate with a foreigner, but that doesn’t mean that there is no solution to this problem at all. Everyone these days carry a smartphone at all times, and most people also have access to the internet. This makes it easier for everyone to get various services through the internet. There are thousands of apps and online tools that can provide people with help whenever they are facing a problem. The Amharic Language: Africa is home to thousands of different languages. They range from indigenous languages to pidgins and creoles. There are also some daughter languages from the time of colonization that are still spoken in the region. The ethnic and linguistic diversity means that the people of every country speak more than one vernacular. The situation is no different in Ethiopia. Amharic is the official language and the lingua franca of the country. But a significant number of people speak other vernaculars like Oromo, Somali, and Harari. Since they come in contact with each other frequently, the vernaculars have influenced Amharic. It is written in the Ge’ez script. There is no universally agreed-upon way of Romanizing Amharic, which is why linguists use different systems when writing it in the Latin script. Read the full article

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I spent the first few days of Ramadan 2016 in Havana. I searched up Islam in Cuba before I left, and articles online said the government approved for a masjid to be built, but nowhere confirmed if the project had been completed. I then saw a photo of it on Instagram so I noted the name and location and asked around when I got there. I also came across articles on Imam Yahya Pedro, the leader of the Islamic League in Cuba and how he and his wife would clear their living room every Friday for over two decades, so that the small Muslim community of Havana could pray Jummah on Friday��s. He’s also in this video and I’m very grateful to have met him.

I first visited the masjid with my friends a week before Ramadan, and it was closed between the prayers so we sat in a café nearby, and this guy (Yusuf) came and told us they would be reopening for Asr prayer. He also asked where we were all from, and when I said Somalia he was really surprised and told me enthusiastically that his wife was Somali too. After we prayed, Yusuf made us tea and the others in the masjid came and sat where we were. Yusuf started telling us about his journey to Islam, how he met his wife and after that he started translating everyone else’s story. Ahmed was one of the older men, and he became interested in Islam after reading the autobiography of Malcolm X. Others said they were inspired by their friends at university who came from Muslim countries to Havana to study. The oldest amongst us was named Daud who also spoke very good English. He told us about his life in Cuba before, during and after the revolution, and how he embraced Islam fairly recently.

These videos are somewhat of a video-dump of part of my experience with everyone I met during my last week.

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Linguistics jobs - Interview with a Senior Content Project Manager at Transparent Language

I mentioned on Twitter a while back that I was looking for people who wanted to participate in the linguistics jobs series. Heather Froehlich got back to me almost immediately with the recommendation that I interview Caneel Graham. This was a great suggestion! Caneel works for Transparent Language, an organisation that makes language learning software. They’ve created 7000 Languages, a non-profit organization that donates technology to developing language learning software for all of the world’s languages. They have some free resources, which are worth checking out. Caneel gives us the low-down on working for Transparent as a project manager.

What did you study at university?

I went into college with the goal of getting my BA in linguistics. There were only a few people (maybe 12 or 16) linguistics majors at the time. I also took Russian and French classes that first year and decided in my second year to study abroad in Morocco to learn Arabic (or at least develop an accent with my French). After I came back, I took the requirements for a linguistics degree: Phonology, Syntax, Morphology I and II, History of the English Language, Teaching English as a Second Language, and my capstone class was Field Methods (focusing on Turkish). To finish out my college career, naturally, I minored in studio art.

What is your job?

Officially, I’m a project manager. I plan and spec new projects, hire and train contractors, keep my projects on time and under budget, document best practices and processes, and attend many meetings. But here’s the wicked cool part: I work at a company that makes language-learning software. Kind of like Rosetta Stone, except we’re much better. Last year, we increased our online language offerings to 103 different languages. This year, we already have plans to add four more: Hmong, Hän, Holikachuk, and Lower Tanana.

I haven’t yet found a way to concisely describe what I do, but can give examples. Here’s what I did this January:

Surveyed Farsi and Russian instructors to find out how they use technology to teach grammar in initial acquisition courses.

Worked with product managers to design two new activities specifically us ed to teach grammar.

Researched Uyghur keyboards.

Created a 10-activity demo to teach inflection of some stative verbs in Koyukon.

Wrote a project specification to create domain-specific English-language conversational material.

Saved a few hours of copy-pasting with an Excel macro that formats the text for a multiple choice activity xml.

Worked with two translators to finalize the text for an online English for Turkish speakers course.

In the upcoming year, my goal is to expand the types of activities and number  materials we have available for practicing grammar online.

How does your linguistics training help you in your job? 

I can’t say this job only requires linguistics, but it’s my special contribution to the team.

The amazing group of people that I work with come from a variety of professional backgrounds: an MA in Classical Languages, an editor for a Spanish textbook company, an English teacher/German translator, a localization specialist, and me, a BA in linguistics. We are good at what we do and, despite differences in background, what we all have in common is a love of language and a curiosity of how it works. When you get a group of highly motivated, salaried, language nerds together, some amazing work will result.

Every year, the team works with 5-10 different languages, so even the very basic notion that languages are functioning as a system according to certain rules has been valuable. We’ve all had to use some generative grammar principles when we need to break down large chunks of language into lexemes for vocabulary learning. I’ve even had to draw a syntax tree in a meeting. Phonology came to the rescue when, the eve before a project was due, we needed the audio for a plural French noun and we only had it recorded in the singular. I had no choice but to splice a fricative onto the end of the audio file. (I really wanted to tell my phonology professor about that one).  

Do you have any advice do you wish someone had given to you about linguistics/careers/university?

I wish someone had told me…

Don’t doubt your interest in something; if it keeps your brain happy and curious, you can use it as motivation. Starting a job, even in educational publishing, requires you to start with the basics of business, despite your degree. Even though I could pronounce wild consonants like voiced uvular fricatives and create classroom lesson plans about phrasal verbs in English, I still had to learn how to write bugs in JIRA, negotiate pay rates with contractors, schedule meetings with Outlook, and develop good documentation habits. It was amazing how exciting some of that stuff started to seem if it meant that I got to work with Somali or Tamil. Plus, I got to meet some of the best people I’ve ever known, all of us, language nerds.

Use some of your interest to do research early (high school and freshman year early); explore related fields, even if you don’t think you’re good at them, sign up for computer classes, and make connections between your passion and potential applications.

Search for some of the connections between linguistics and other fields on job search engines or by reading blogs like this one. Don’t be surprised that there aren’t a lot of openings specifically for your major if you choose something in the liberal arts line. Once you find your keywords, keep the search open and see what other skills might complement your degree.

Always keep up with the technology that’s being used generally in the workplace. Find out how people communicate with each other, how files are shared within a company, and learn some general tools that may be specific to your industry. I took an Intro to Computers class my senior year and it proved to be one of the most useful classes I’ve ever taken.

Any other thoughts or comments?

 The more I work with language and gain hands on experience, the more I realize that there is so much knowledge and research that I do not know. At this point, I’ve combined general linguistics with general project management, but it feels right to push that knowledge a little deeper, maybe a degree, maybe some research. 

Previously:

Interview with a freelance translator and editor

Interview with an educational development lecturer (and linguistic consultant)

Interview with a client services manager

Interview with an English foreign language teacher

Interview with a speech pathologist

Interview with a computational linguist

For more interviews check out the ‘linguistics jobs’ tag.