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Arabic and Its Writing System: A Shared Script Across the Arab World

Arabic is spoken across more than twenty countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It functions as a language system with a shared written standard and a wide range of spoken varieties that can differ as much as Spanish and Italian.

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FeaturedLinguistic Validation

Linguistic Validation as Applied Measurement Science

Linguistic validation is the localization process behind translating clinical outcome assessments. It is a discipline of its own. Clinical outcome measures are not texts. They are sensitive scientific instruments. Every word and phrase are high stakes content.

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Language Series

Italian: The Language of Romance and Waving Arms

The Italian language is melodic, deeply expressive, and elegantly romantic. Shaped within a culture of animated debate, intellectual masterpieces, unrushed meals around crowded tables, masterful craftsmanship, world-defining music, and landscapes that are like open-air galleries.

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Medical TranslationFeatured

Beyond English: Why Instructional Language Matters in Rater Training

Most clinicians learned medicine in their national instructional language and can speak or read English, but conversational fluency is not the same as instructional fluency for complex diagnostic constructs.

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