Posts about Translation
Volunteer Translators Needed for Global Voices Bangla Lingua
We're reaching out because the Lingua Community is looking for volunteers to help out with translating into Bangla. If you're interested, please apply or mail us.
Translator Newsletter: Brain Rewiring, Love in Translation, & More!
In this edition of The Translator Newsletter, we are talking about Brain Rewiring, Love in Translation, & More!
Translator Newsletter: Being Invisible, Untranslatable Words, and More!
Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about. Compassionate Communication In a continuously globalizing society, we often find ourselves in workspaces where not everyone speaks English. For non-native English speakers, communicating and getting their ideas across can often pose an enormous challenge. UX...
Useful new WordPress and Lingua features
Hello, I'm Jeremy the lead developer for Global Voices. We just updated all sites to use the latest version of WordPress (4.5.3) and I wanted to demo a few cool features that have been added recently. Lingua: Link your “matching” accounts across sites! It's been awhile that the Lingua system...
Translator Newsletter: Linguistic Alchemy, Slang, and More!
Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about… Linguistic Alchemy When marketing content to a global audience, the power of translation is key. The better a translator you are, the more likely your target audience will believe they're looking at content created originally...
Translator Newsletter: Dictionaries for Refugees, Brexit, and More!
Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about… Dictionaries for Refugees Let's kick the week off on a positive note! — Students in Norwood have come together to create a tool for Syrian refugees and their families living in their area. According to...
Translator Newsletter: The Perfect Translation, Cultural Equality, & More!
Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about… Cultural Equality Through Translation What role does translation play in the ongoing migration crisis we're all experiencing today? In an article entitled, “Translation — a bridge between languages that can foster cultural equality“, Marcus Tomalin...
Translator Newsletter: Lost Languages, Kid Translators, and more!
Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about… Is Bilingualism Linked to Creativity? That's the question on Jason Silva's mind when he talks about growing up speaking both Spanish and English, and coming from two different cultures. Does speaking more than one language...
Translator Newsletter: Language Maps, Modulation, & More!
Hello, GV'ers! Welcome to this week's edition of the Translator Newsletter! Today we're talking about… Language Maps The Washington Post put together seven great maps and charts to help us visualize the languages of the world and how diverse we really are as a people. Did you know that nearly...
Here’s what we learned about global conferences and social media
In #RightsCon Conference, we translated 444 Tweets — 172 to Arabic, 259 to Spanish. That’s 148 Tweets/day, or roughly 19 Tweets/hour. Here’s what we learned about global conferences.
