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The Open Translation Project is a global volunteer effort to subtitle TED Talks, and enable the inspiring ideas in them to crisscross languages and borders.
TED Translators from 18 countries convened at this year's TEDActive, in Whistler, BC.
Watch the story of Shadia Ramsahye, a Mauritian-born digital media student in Paris who translates TED Talks into French and Urdu.
Unnawut is a Bangkok-based volunteer in the Open Translation Project. Read about his experience translating TED Talks and what “เป้าหมายมีไว้พุ่งชน” means in Thai.
By day Els works for the Financial Services and Markets Authority in Mechelen, Belgium. By night she's an all-star TED translator in five languages. Check out her interview and learn what "pretoogjes" means in Dutch.
Dividing his time between Stockholm and Hong Kong, Matti says, "The beauty of doing a translation is that you really have to take in and understand every single sentence in a text." Read his interview and find out what “Tala om trollen så står de I farstun” means in Swedish.
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Silesian, the 103rd language on TED.com, and the story behind it
A look at TEDxRawaRiver, an event in Poland where the first TEDx Talk in Silesian was given. By Krystian Aparta, as told to Kate Torgovnick Silesian is a Slavic language spoke...Translation by collaboration: A translators workshop in the Balkans
“In this place, you can connect to people that have been drawn apart for years by nationalists and the war. You can put them together in the same room and … people are talking ...Need help? We're here for you.
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