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Formany years, and still in some places across the United States, students were pressured to act as de facto interpreters for their parents. Issues of equity and quality remain, despite the legal mandate for schools to provide interpretation and translation services. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 (EEOA), public schools are required to support ELLs in participating meaningfully and equally. This includes sufficiently staffing ELL programs, avoiding unnecessary segregation of ELLs and providing language assistance.

In Washington state, House Bill 1153 would have increased language access in public schools, but when the bill died in committee, community organizers pivoted to turn the bill into a proviso that was able to pass funding in spring 2021. The proviso will fund the reconvening of a state language access workgroup, as well as direct the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to establish a language access technical assistance program.

Districts need to consistently assess the language needs of their communities, as well as the effectiveness of their language access services. This means prioritizing systemically equitable family engagement practices and providing guidelines and training so schools know when and how to use multilingual staff or contract interpreters. The pandemic has also highlighted the need for remote interpretation, a resource that can continue to be useful even as students go back to in-person learning.

When Hendrickson started working in Highline, these positions were paid out of categorical funds, which she believes created the unintentional message that multilingual family engagement is supplemental work.

Tukwila School District (TSD), a smaller district than Highline or Renton, employs four district-level parent and community liaisons with four different language specializations: Somali, Spanish, Burmese and Nepali. These roles are invaluable, not only because the liaisons give families more access to information about the school system but also because the information flows the other way, too.

Community connections go beyond education. Liaisons help families navigate housing, health care and other basic needs. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, they have also been troubleshooting technology and helping families apply for relief funds.

One way their team has scaled up this work is the Renton Parent University, a 10-week program for parents of ELLs to learn about the U.S. school system. Highlands has been running the Renton Parent University since 2016, and it has continued virtually since the pandemic began.

Another change is language access training for all educators and staff. While this training was accessible before, organizers and community-based groups are now advocating it as a foundational necessity. In a survey conducted by a language access workgroup convened by OSPI and the Office of Education Ombuds, only 27% of district staff and 10% of school staff indicated that they had received training on how to work with interpreters.

Microsoft announced today that 12 new languages and dialects have been added to Translator. These additions mean that the service can now translate between more than 100 languages and dialects, making information in text and documents accessible to 5.66 billion people worldwide.

Thousands of organizations have turned to Translator to communicate with their members, employees and clients around the world. The Volkswagen Group, for example, is using the machine translation technology to serve its customers in more than 60 languages. The workload involves translating more than 1 billion words each year. The company started with standard Translator models and is using the custom feature in Translator to fine tune these models with industry specific terms.

In addition to language, Azure Cognitive Services include AI models for speech, vision and decision-making tasks. These models enable organizations to leverage capabilities, such as a Computer Vision technology known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This service extracts text entered on a form in any of the more than 100 languages covered by Translator and uses the text to populate a database.

The frontier of machine translation technology at Microsoft is a multilingual AI model called Z-code, according to Huang. The model combines several languages from a language family such as the Indian languages of Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati. In this way, the individual language models learn from each other, which reduces data requirements to achieve high-quality translations. For example, the quality of translations to and from Romanian were improved when the translation model is trained together with related French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian data.

The reduced data requirements also enable the Translator team to build models for languages with limited resources or that are endangered due to dwindling populations of native speakers. Several of the languages carrying Translator over the 100-language milestone are low-resource or endangered.

Z-code, Huang added, is part of a larger initiative to combine AI models for text, vision, audio and language in order to enable AI systems that can speak, see, hear and understand and thus more efficiently augment human capabilities. Proof of this so-called XYZ-code vision coming into focus is manifest in the continual rollout of new languages built with multilingual model training technology, he said.

Top image: Uzbek, the official language of Uzbekistan, is one of a dozen languages and dialects now available on Translator. In this image, two men drink tea in a chaikhana, a traditional tea house in the Fergana region of Uzbekistan. Photo courtesy of Getty Images.

is an American translator and author. He has translated more than 50 books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras and Andr Breton, and written 11 books, the latest of which is Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto (2018). He is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the recipient of a 2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters award for literature, and a publisher and editor-in-chief at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

At this time automatic translations within the Shopify Translate and Adapt app are limited to two languages and there isn't a way to pay for more automatic translations. That being said, you would still be able to manually translate content following these steps if you hit your limit. I'm happy to share this and any more feedback you have about this with our team who work on improvements to the app. We're always looking for ways to improve features. Especially this one since the app was released recently.

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Hi @joeybab3 @Mark1988 , additional auto-translated languages is being considered, but there is not confirmation or a timeline as yet. In the mean time there is a workaround to get a similar result of Google Translate translations of your store, including HTML content. It uses the Languages CSV (Settings > Languages > Export) and employs the Google Translate API inside Google Sheets, creating an API.

I would definitely like to add a +1 to this for our store, right now we have a really janky auto translate with google thing going but it would be much better to be able to tailer the content on our own using our native speakers of the languages. At the current moment yes we ca manually go and find every section to translate but it would be much easier to just fix the ones that are not right rather than start from scratch.

Hi, @joeybab3. I'm happy to look into this with you! I completely understand why you want to have more tailored translations. Can you tell me more about the translation adjustments you're hoping to make?

You are currently able to manually fix translations without needing to start all of your translations over from scratch. You can read more about how to do this using the Translate & Adapt app here. You can do this by locating the translation you want to fix directly in the Translate & Adapt app. You can also do this by going to the content page that you want to translate and clicking More actions > Localize.

You could also go directly to the product page in your Shopify admin. If you click More actions > Localize on that page you'll be brought to the same page in the screenshot above where you can make translation adjustments.

Hi, does anyone know when the maximum of 2 automatic translations will be increased? Have 7 more languages which need to be translated. If the App gets updated/extended soon, we can wait. Otherwise we need to make an alternative plan. Thanks for the update

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