How to Avoid Scammers and Find Valuable Clients.
When I started working as a freelancer in 2022, I created accounts on Fiverr and Upwork. They looked awesome to start earning some money....
top of page
The ProZ Pro Bono Blog
Zeinab Eltaher
- Sep 2
- 3 min
Perks Of Translation
I’ve been to Sri Lanka twice and I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t learn much about its rich and complicated history, ethnicities and...
61 views3 comments
Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
- Aug 5
- 2 min
The Story About The Prize For Working Hard
On a summer day, Laura, a lovely 30-year-old woman, was translating many projects into French and was overwhelmed because she had to...
52 views3 comments
Cecilia Lolli
- Aug 2
- 2 min
Lit and tourism: 3 things in common
I have just come back from a vacation on an island close to my native culture. Life flows slower on islands. They have a little...
34 views2 comments
Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
- Jul 22
- 2 min
A Tale of Collaborative and Valuable Teamwork
One day, a woman from Texas decided to write a book for children. She realized her culture is very rich, where you can find Spanish and...
50 views4 comments
Priscila Themer Paolini
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Translation in my life
It’s a sunny day in Araraquara, a not-so-small town in the state of São Paulo. This day got me thinking about the transition I'm going...
71 views2 comments
Yuna Guillamot
- Jul 1
- 2 min
Poetry in translation and translation of poetry
Thanks to Chinthi and a conversation about translating translations of poems. In my eyes, there is poetry in everything. The way a vine...
85 views5 comments
Cecilia Lolli
- Jun 28
- 2 min
A Pro Bono story: Progressive International
Are translators born or made? Here’s my take on this rhetorical question. As a child, I had exceptionally blond hair. As a child, I liked...
115 views1 comment
Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
- Jun 26
- 2 min
The Story of a Business Owner who Realized How Important Translators Are
One day, there was a business owner looking for a translator to edit his educational products to learn Spanish. This person had doubts...
90 views5 comments
Zeinab Eltaher
- Jun 25
- 3 min
A Difficult Word to Translate into your Mother Tongue
Have you ever encountered a word in your mother tongue that you didn’t know how to translate? I was telling a non-Arabic speaking friend...
218 views11 comments
Mica Ruiz
- Jun 17
- 3 min
The Symphony of Life: Balancing Music, Humanitarianism, and Translation
Life often resembles a delicate symphony, a harmonious blend of diverse elements that come together to create a unique masterpiece. For...
80 views3 comments
Cecilia Lolli
- Jun 14
- 2 min
Peter Handke, Essay on a Mushroom Maniac
(from Quiet Places: Collected Essays) In 2019, Peter Handke won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2022, FSG (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)...
50 views4 comments
Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
- Jun 10
- 2 min
The Story About Becoming that Professional Translator you Dream of.
On a bright day, Pedro, who is a translator, was dealing with many dilemmas in his life. One of his thoughts was about how to get new...
138 views3 comments
Paula Andrea Lucchesi
- May 31
- 2 min
Bitter Truths and Sweet Oranges
Something happened yesterday that gave me food for thought. Like every other day, I took out the garbage, just around the time the truck...
109 views4 comments
Zeinab Eltaher
- May 20
- 3 min
Translation From A Hearing-Impaired Perspective
Translation isn’t only a world where I convert context from one language to another. It’s a continuous learning process that enriches my...
135 views4 comments
Zeinab Eltaher
- Apr 26
- 3 min
Pay It Forward
I remember those days when I was young, sometimes, my family and I watched Egyptian series on Nile TV, a TV channel which broadcasted...
161 views10 comments
Mica Ruiz
- Apr 19
- 2 min
Breaking Ground: A ProZ Pro Bono Journey
In the realm of linguistic barriers, the first steps toward breaking them down are often the most crucial. As a driving force behind ProZ...
53 views1 comment
Laura Lipson Girard
- Mar 18
- 3 min
A sense of belonging
According to the Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs pyramid, having a sense of belonging is one of our main needs as human beings, just above...
122 views6 comments
Silvia Helena Marin
- Mar 11
- 3 min
Do you feel lonely as a translator - Part 4
She was gone. She had passed away. The reality of her death haunted me every day, and the pain was unbearable. I missed her terribly (I...
163 views14 comments
Silvia Helena Marin
- Mar 4
- 3 min
Do you feel lonely as a translator - Part 3
After all the struggle with my typewriter, I reasoned that it would be best to jot down everything and then type the text. I devoted days...
178 views12 comments
bottom of page