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Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Jul 222 min read
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...
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Priscila Themer Paolini
Jul 152 min read
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...
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Subrina Afrin
Jul 123 min read
Cultivating Personal Growth Through Humanitarian Translation
In the intricate web of human connection, language serves as the vital thread that binds us together. Yet, language barriers often erect...
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Yuna Guillamot
Jul 82 min read
Struggles with Crowdin: A Volunteer Translator’s Perspective
As a volunteer for ProZ Pro Bono, I get to use Crowdin for my volunteer translations. To say that getting to know the tool hasn’t been...
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Yuna Guillamot
Jul 12 min read
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...
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Cecilia Lolli
Jun 282 min read
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...
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Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Jun 262 min read
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...
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Zeinab Eltaher
Jun 253 min read
A Difficult Word to Translate in 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...
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Mica Ruiz
Jun 173 min read
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...
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Cecilia Lolli
Jun 142 min read
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)...
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Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Jun 102 min read
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...
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Anastasija Artiomova
Jun 62 min read
OPEN HOUSE: To attend or not to attend, that is the question
If you are a newbie who has recently joined ProZ Pro Bono, or not a newbie anymore, but one who’s been lurking and has never joined an Open
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Yuna Guillamot
Jun 42 min read
Across, a CAT tool developed for the needs of agencies and clients
I’ve previously written about three translator-centred tools, different in their conception but aiming to make the translators’ lives...
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Paula Andrea Lucchesi
May 312 min read
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...
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Subrina Afrin
May 273 min read
8 Engrossing Fiction Books for Every Translator and Interpreter
Fiction has a unique power to transport us to different worlds, broaden our perspectives, and deepen our understanding of language and...
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Yuna Guillamot
May 243 min read
Transit NXT: An Old-School CAT Tool with Surprising Benefits
After having given you some basic information on the two leading CAT tools in my experience, I’d like to give you some information on one...
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Zeinab Eltaher
May 203 min read
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...
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Cecilia Lolli
May 133 min read
Rachel Carson's "The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children"
The book in a quote: “If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should...
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Yuna Guillamot
May 102 min read
Passolo Demystified: A Deep Dive into Software Localization Tools
Localisation software Passolo by RWS (formerly SDL) is another tool that is free to use for the translator, but only with packages...
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