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The Week in Review: Language Industry News June 16-22

MultiLingual Staff June 22, 2026

This week’s stories reveal a quiet but powerful shift: organizations aren’t just deploying language technology, they’re defining who has the authority to speak, interpret, decide, and be understood.

Press Release

Alconost Launches QACAT: QA That Gets Smarter Over Time

MultiLingual Staff June 22, 2026

The newly released platform is built on the idea that automation handles the repetitive, rule-based checks, while humans focus on nuance, context, and cultural fit.

XTM Wins 2026 Innovator of the Year – Europe at LocWorld’s Process Innovation Challenge

Press Release MultiLingual Staff - June 22, 2026

Sara's winning pitch of XTM Go is a risk-aware translation gateway built for the invisible translation demand, tackling one of enterprise localization's most consequential blind spots.

Localizing Empathy: A Multilingual AI Collaboration for Youth Mental Health

Sponsored Wei Zhang - June 19, 2026

LUCIA’s foundation lies in a localization-first design: empathy requires understanding, not just translation. Its natural language model was trained using a hybrid process combining machine learning with human cultural insight.

Asta Rusakeviėčienė on Adapting and Innovating in the Modern Translation Landscape

Community Nicolas M. Martin Fontana - June 19, 2026

Asta Rusakeviėčienė reflects on the impact of her early years as a translator for orphanages and speaks about her current role as owner and CEO of Diskusija, a boutique translation and localization company.

Concordia Signs an Agreement with Quebec to Bolster French-Language Learning

Press Release MultiLingual Staff - June 19, 2026

The goal is to ensure that 60 per cent of international and out-of-province students demonstrate a Level 4 on the Quebec Scale of French Proficiency Levels by the time they graduate.

Localizing Empathy: A Multilingual AI Collaboration for Youth Mental Health

Wei Zhang

Asta Rusakeviėčienė on Adapting and Innovating in the Modern Translation Landscape

Community Nicolas M. Martin Fontana June 19, 2026

LocWorld55 Dublin: A New Chapter for a Global Community in an AI‑Driven Era

Event Recap MultiLingual Staff June 19, 2026

Canada’s Supreme Court Rules New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor Must be Bilingual

News MultiLingual Staff June 17, 2026

Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Live Translate with Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Capabilities

Hot Topics MultiLingual Staff June 15, 2026

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The Week in Review: Language Industry News June 16-22

MultiLingual Staff June 22, 2026

Alconost Launches QACAT: QA That Gets Smarter Over Time

MultiLingual Staff June 22, 2026

XTM Wins 2026 Innovator of the Year – Europe at LocWorld’s Process Innovation Challenge

MultiLingual Staff June 22, 2026

Concordia Signs an Agreement with Quebec to Bolster French-Language Learning

MultiLingual Staff June 19, 2026

MAGAZINE

Unlocking a Global Audience

Cameron Rasmusson

Leaders at Keywords Studios — a creative and technical solutions provider for the gaming and entertainment industries — discuss the company’s journey and future. Bertrand Bodson and Romina Franceschina highlight their integrated approach, growth via strategic M&As, and commitment to game localization as a multicultural content service.

June 2026

MultiLingual Staff

In this issue, we speak with leaders at Keywords Studios, Bertrand Bodson and Romina Franceschina, who discuss their integrated approach, growth via strategic mergers and acquisitions, and commitment to game localization as a multicultural content service.

Unlocking a Global Audience

Cameron Rasmusson

The State of Game Localization in 2026

Cameron Rasmusson

Translating Worlds: The Studios Localizing Your Favorite Games

MultiLingual Staff

Reframing Quality in Video Game Localization

Marina Ilari

How Game Studios Can Ride the AI Wave in Localization

MultiLingual Staff

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News

The Week in Review: Language Industry News June 16-22

MultiLingual Staff June 22, 2026

Press Release

Alconost Launches QACAT: QA That Gets Smarter Over Time

MultiLingual Staff June 22, 2026

The newly released platform is built on the idea that automation handles the repetitive, rule-based checks, while humans focus on nuance, context, and cultural fit.

XTM Wins 2026 Innovator of the Year – Europe at LocWorld’s Process Innovation Challenge

Press Release MultiLingual Staff - June 22, 2026

Sara's winning pitch of XTM Go is a risk-aware translation gateway built for the invisible translation demand, tackling one of enterprise localization's most consequential blind spots.

Localizing Empathy: A Multilingual AI Collaboration for Youth Mental Health

Sponsored Wei Zhang - June 19, 2026

Asta Rusakeviėčienė on Adapting and Innovating in the Modern Translation Landscape

Community Nicolas M. Martin Fontana - June 19, 2026

Concordia Signs an Agreement with Quebec to Bolster French-Language Learning

Press Release MultiLingual Staff - June 19, 2026

The goal is to ensure that 60 per cent of international and out-of-province students demonstrate a Level 4 on the Quebec Scale of French Proficiency Levels by the time they graduate.

Negotiating Deals in the Localization Industry

MultiLingual Staff

As many businesses are allocating their budgets for the upcoming year, six sales specialists share their advice for closing deals in the language industry space — measuring success, personalization, and knowing the client’s perspective can go a long way.

German interpreter breaks into tears while interpreting for Zelensky

Interpreting Stefan Huyghe February 27, 2022

How movies impact our societies

Localization Sarah Morris April 9, 2020

Translation Trends for 2021: How the industry is shaping up

Business Louise Taylor February 22, 2021

Airbnb awards largest contract in language industry

Business Cameron Rasmusson November 9, 2021

Five not-so-obvious benefits of learning Japanese for work and business

Uncategorized Anne Martone January 21, 2020

Five advantages of using marketing localization for your business

Localization Joevren Curmi December 18, 2018

Why US citizens should embrace Spanish

Culture Dan Berges January 9, 2019

Squid Game smashes barriers and records, highlights importance of translation

Localization Michael Reid October 4, 2021

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The Week in Review: Language Industry News June 16-22

MultiLingual Staff June 22, 2026

Press Release

Alconost Launches QACAT: QA That Gets Smarter Over Time

MultiLingual Staff June 22, 2026

The newly released platform is built on the idea that automation handles the repetitive, rule-based checks, while humans focus on nuance, context, and cultural fit.

XTM Wins 2026 Innovator of the Year – Europe at LocWorld’s Process Innovation Challenge

Press Release MultiLingual Staff - June 22, 2026

Sara's winning pitch of XTM Go is a risk-aware translation gateway built for the invisible translation demand, tackling one of enterprise localization's most consequential blind spots.

Localizing Empathy: A Multilingual AI Collaboration for Youth Mental Health

Sponsored Wei Zhang - June 19, 2026

Asta Rusakeviėčienė on Adapting and Innovating in the Modern Translation Landscape

Community Nicolas M. Martin Fontana - June 19, 2026

Concordia Signs an Agreement with Quebec to Bolster French-Language Learning

Press Release MultiLingual Staff - June 19, 2026

The goal is to ensure that 60 per cent of international and out-of-province students demonstrate a Level 4 on the Quebec Scale of French Proficiency Levels by the time they graduate.

LONG READS

Artificial Intelligence

The Great Gap: Will MT ever be on par with human translators?

Andrew Warner - February 7, 2023

The debate around human parity in machine translation — whether or not we’ll achieve it in our lifetimes and its potential impact on the language services industry — is hotly contested. Here, MultiLingual’s Andrew Warner dives into the history of this topic and gains insight from language industry experts to see how close we are to reaching human parity in MT and what it could mean for human translators.

Experience

Thriving as a Woman in Tech

Mimi Hills - March 14, 2023

All too often, women in the technology industry struggle to get the recognition they deserve. Throughout her career, Mimi Hills has seen her fair share of bias in the industry — in her latest for MultiLingual, she shares ten tips for women looking to pave their way to success in the industry.

Culture

The missed chance with Catalan

Anna Schlegel - December 28, 2022

Catalan is a language that companies seeking to expand their services ignore at their peril.

Business

LangOps. Pipe Dream, LSP´s Heaven or Just a New Hashtag?

Arthur Wetzel - December 12, 2022

Sometimes things become reality if you only put the right label on it. With that, the view on the real concept itself often becomes blurry or too shiny to recognize its real value. Let’s have a look into the newly created notion of LangOps, or ContentOps. As the world becomes more globalized, language is crucial for many companies as they connect with clients internationally.

Feature

35 Years, 200 Issues

MultiLingual Staff - February 14, 2022

It’s June, 1987, and a small brick office in Sandpoint, Idaho, reverberates with the monotonous “ca-choong” of staples being driven through 29 sheets of heavy paper. Pushing down on the industrial stapler is Seth Thomas Schneider, founder of MultiLingual Computing. Thirty-five years later, there are two hard copies left of the first issue, slowly turning beige and brittle in another brick office in Sandpoint, a stone’s throw from where they were created.