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214913 Resource 114450 114534 114534 1224605850060 1224605850060 Controlled Language Translation - U.S. Department of Defense seeks to attract language experts

Members of the military who can translate or interpret to and from foreign languages are needed in the Armed Forces, and the Department of Defense has undertaken a number of programs to encourage and reward its foreign language speakers.

“The Department of Defense has created several programs to get more translators. The Foreign Language Proficiency Bonus Program pays troops a monthly bonus if they speak certain languages. But the monthly bonus is paid only when the language is used….The military has also been actively recruiting recent immigrants who could go through training to improve their skills and teach them how to use those skills for translation in a military situation. This is the EHLS (English for Heritage Language Speakers), which takes native speakers of these languages, living in the U.S., but lack [sic] the English language skills to be effective translators. The program involves a government paid, six-month (720 hour) intensive course that improves the students English language skills. Those who successfully finish EHLS will be offered translating jobs with the U.S. government, but the students are under no legal obligation to take any of those jobs.”(<a href="http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20081015.aspx">Extract</a> from Strategy Page, October 15, 2008)Quality language <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/translation-services.html">translation</a> and <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/interpreting-services.html">interpretation</a> skills are highly sought after today, whether in business, medicine, or, as we can see in this extract, the military.<a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/">Language Translation Inc.,</a> located in San Diego, California, has been providing language services to companies in the U.S. and abroad since 1989. “Let us show you how good translation should be.”Betty CarlsonLearn more about the world of <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/translation-services.html">translation</a> by signing up to receive one of our <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/language_guides.html">free language translation guides</a> 9 application/xml false foreign language interpret interpreting language language translation translate translation Language Translation Inc. Language Translation Inc., a San Diego-based company has been serving the U.S. and countries abroad since 1989 with professional document translation, certified conference interpreting, and software / website localization services. http://www.languagetranslation.com/ Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; WWTClient2) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 anevin 72.214.60.131 false true false false true 200517 false false true false false false true 114450 blog blogsite/LanguageTranslation/web