Official English legislation allows a variety of common sense exceptions permitting the use of languages other than English: public health and safety, international relations and national security, judicial proceedings (although actual trials would be conducted in English), tourism, foreign language instruction, terms of art or phrases from other languages, etc.

Official English legislation is actually pro-immigrant. A study published by the U.S. Department of Labor found that immigrants learned English more quickly when there was less native language support around them. A "linguistic welfare" system that accommodates immigrants in their native languages lowers the incentive to learn English and restricts them to low-skilled, low-paying jobs.

Yes, we can caption any video for international use. Please call us for an exact quote and to find out which languages are available.

While the interface and help files for TextAloud are available only in English, we offer voices and TextAloud supports all of the following languages:

Debian GNU/Linux is distributed with keymaps for nearly two dozen keyboards, and with utilities (in the kbd package) to install, view, and modify the tables. Vast majority of the software we packaged supports entering non-US-ASCII characters used in other Latin languages (e.g. ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-2), and a number of programs support multi-byte languages such as Japanese or Chinese.

There are a number of vendors who sell TTS engines using European and Asian languages. See the previous question. We know of only one non-English, SAPI compliant ASR engine which is described here. Microsoft, Windows, C#, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, JScript and ActiveX are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Eicon, Diva and Dialogic are registered trademarks or trademarks of Dialogic Corporation formerly Eicon Networks Corporation

GIDEON is available only in English. Some of the synonyms for diseases, countries and drugs are in other languages. The personal notes accept any language that works with a browser.

Yes, you can still participate. Interviews will be conducted in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Spanish and other languages as needed.

There are currently no "official" CDC translations of the VISs. Several states have translated them, however, and sharing of translations among states is encouraged. Projects or providers may translate the VISs into other languages. These do not have to be approved by CDC. (See "Where can I get the VISs," below.

The SAVRY has been translated into Dutch (by Henny Lodewijks); Swedish (led by Niklas Langström); Finnish (led by Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino); German (led by Dr. Cornelis Stadtland); Norwegian (led by Geir Tafjord); Spanish & Catalan (led by Ed Hilterman).

German, French, Italian and Romantsch. However, official documents and declarations on goods have to be provided in German, French and Italian only.

There are 20 official EU languages. They are: Spanish, Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Maltese, Polish, Slovak and Slovene.

Communicating with public officials through MoreThanMonarchs.org gives your letter more weight. It does this in three different in ways. First, your concern is added to the many other individuals who share similar concerns. There is strength in numbers. Second, your communication is public and transparent, meaning that anyone with computer access can learn about what you are sharing with the Mexican government. Third, your letter will be permanently recorded for future consultation.

No, Military.com is a business unit of Monster Worldwide (NASDAQ:MNST). However, Military.com works very closely with government organizations to ensure complete and timely coverage of issues and events that affect our members.

Yes. DDWin will soon be available in UK English, Italian, German, French, Spanish (Castillian and Caribbean) and Swedish. Yes. However, if you are using PC Tools Desktop, and want to take advantage of the Bring Up command, you will need to go into DDWin's Voice Menu, Options, find the Startup tab and clear the "Name of Bring Up Group" field.

According to EC Section 48985, when 15 percent or more of the pupils enrolled in the school speak a single primary language other than English, all notices, reports, statements, or records sent by the school or district to the parent/guardian of any such pupil must, in addition to being written in English, be written in this primary language and may be responded to by the parent or guardian in English or in the primary language.

Balloonist can optionally align text in vertical strips to support Chinese and Japanese writing. To activate this feature, select a balloon and toggle on its Vertical checkbox in the Properties Pane.