Spanish For Social Change

community kitchen my apologies for the silence - I'm in the midst of transitioning from Bogota to Vancouver, currently floating around t...

community cafe (UK) or community cafe or kitchen (Canada). NOT a soup kitchen comedor infantil - kids cafe, or kids kitchen. Comedores po...

potluck: comida comunitaria This is actually my own invention, since gatherings of people where each person is expected to bring a dish of f...

I have yet to read this book, but it looks fantastic. She looks at things like how attention is shifted to the court interpreter in proceed...

simple: sencillo yes, you could use simple too, but since one of its most commonly used definitions is also tonto, as well as ordinary and c...

I will get back to posting terms soon, but one more meta comment for now: What I tell organizations, when they ask me about it, is: Machine ...

Not a term, but a recommendation to watch movies with subtitles whenever you can, to see how they translate terms. I know, annoying to read ...

There's really no way of getting around studying lists to improve your handle on obscure terms (I have spent far too many hours of my li...

I put four new sites in the tools section on the sidebar For pronunciation there was already forvo , which is nice because people all around...

tipping point: punto crítico, momento clave del cambio the latter I think works for when this term is used in marketing (as in when so many...

climate crisis: crisis del clima love this video - I think it does a great job of breaking it down and explaining the tipping point (punto l...

creepy: hormigueante creepy , according to wiktionary: producing an uneasy fearful sensation , as of things crawling over one's skin ...

cheesy: cursi cheesy , according to the wiktionary = of poor quality through being overdramatic , excessively emotional or clichéd cursi, ...

Pueblos Originarios: First Peoples A term that I had rarely heard in English for indigenous peoples (note the importance of the s and the en...

bastón de mando: (ceremonial) staff of authority Kudos to CNN for showing this clip of activist video - it has forced Colombia's preside...

waterboarding = el 'submarino'; asfixia "simulada" (?!) con agua The mainstream media claims that it is "simulated...

concientizar: raise awareness segun wiktionary (check out their conjugation table): provocar que alguien tome conciencia de algo. relatedly...

desplazado: displaced person; person who has been displaced (ie. forced to flee their home, land and community) the latter takes longer to s...

solidarity: solidaridad Yes, yes, this one is obvious, but I'd like to point you to a good tactic when working on translations - compari...

asistencialismo: charity On proz I found cult of dependency, and welfarism - neither are quite it, and I don't think would be well unde...

cognitariado: cognitariat (image from the fab phdcomics ) This is a term invented by Franco Berardi, alias Bifo¸quien describe esta "c...

more online tools for translators - with descriptions taken directly from a list posted at Dumb Little Man Dictionary.com Dictionary.com ...

beachhead : cabeza de playa Well I for one wouldn't have guessed this would be a literal translation, but what do you know - it is. And ...

token: cuota I've often wondered how to say token , you know, the one woman on the panel, the one person of color, the one youth - not t...

jaque: check By now you must have heard of the spectacular rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, the three U.S. mercenaries (no, I don't think th...