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A Song To Translate From Your Mother Tongue
A non-Arabic-speaking friend of mine asked me about the lyrics of an Egyptian song that she listened to. I looked up the lyrics and...

Zeinab Eltaher
Nov 8, 20243 min read
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Raising Your Rates: Making Your Services more valuable and desirable
If you are a freelancer like me, charging the best rate for your work is probably very difficult. When I started to work as a Spanish...

Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Sep 27, 20242 min read
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Translation Postcard from Cardenas, Cuba
Welcome to Cardenas, Cuba, where the aroma of fresh bread mingles with the cries of street peddlers, and horse-drawn carriages aren't...

Andrew Morris
Sep 19, 20241 min read
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Unlocking Language Mastery: Top 10 YouTube Channels for Translators and Interpreters
In the ever-expanding world of language and communication, translators and interpreters play a crucial role in bridging linguistic gaps....

Subrina Afrin
Sep 16, 20242 min read
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Translation Postcard from Tartus, Syria
Ask your average viewer of the news what comes to mind when you say “Syria”, and you’re unlikely to hear them describe a liberal,...

Andrew Morris
Sep 12, 20241 min read
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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....

Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Sep 6, 20242 min read
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Translation Postcard from Taoyuan, Taiwan
It's the place where tradition meets tech, old meets new, of towering landscapes and no less towering skyscrapers towers. So many...

Andrew Morris
Sep 5, 20241 min read
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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...

Zeinab Eltaher
Sep 2, 20243 min read
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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...

Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Aug 5, 20242 min read
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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...

Cecilia Lolli
Aug 2, 20242 min read
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What Is Writing to You?
“I write because I love writing. I mean I love it in a way that makes the question ‘Why do you write?’ seem strange and incomprehensible...

Zeinab Eltaher
Jul 26, 20243 min read
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Do you feel lonely as a translator?
In 2019, I was living happily in the UK, I had married for the second time and had a nice job. As I used to do every year, ever since...

Silvia Helena Marin
Feb 5, 20243 min read
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