My hope As a Translator in the AI Era
Listen to "My Hope as a Translator in the AI era" post here . Despite the growth of artificial intelligence, I have found that there are...
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Zeinab Eltaher
Nov 83 min read
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...
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Cecilia Lolli
Oct 183 min read
Walking the linguistic tightrope: a day in the life of a translator
Working with Italian and German simultaneously is a unique experience that challenges and stimulates the mind in equal measure.
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Zeinab Eltaher
Oct 53 min read
My First Pro Bono Anniversary
September was very special as it was the Pro Bono anniversary. October is no less special for a variety of reasons. In the northern...
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Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Sep 303 min read
My Experience Volunteering For Wiki Project Med (Part 1)
Proz Pro Bono supports many non-profit organizations around the world. One of them is the Wiki Project Med Foundation, which has the goal...
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Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Sep 272 min read
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...
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Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Sep 62 min read
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....
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Zeinab Eltaher
Sep 23 min read
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...
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Oscar Felipe Núñez Alfaro
Aug 52 min read
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...
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Cecilia Lolli
Aug 22 min read
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...
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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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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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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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