Spanish For Social Change

Here's another activist video about this tragedy, this time about how it is being done in Colombia. The term they use here is "min...

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vereda: hamlet; rural community. I've posted twice before about the Colombian term 'vereda. I keep changing my mind on what I li...

Affordable appropriate tech simultaneous interpreting equipment. Need I say more? This is so obviously a wondrous and dearly necessary thin...

Well, duh. But great article about recent research on this here, in the WSJ . Strangely, as my stepdad pointed out, it doesn't mention...

A friend just pointed me to the site dot sub as a free and easy way to do subtitles. Has anyone used this? Liked it? Any other suggestions ...

regalías (Mex): benefits (ie sick days, health insurance) This is a great 15 minute documentary that you should watch if you've ever bee...

I've posted before on the term token, and there was a great discussion in the comments about how token is different than the effort to ...

talking heads: cabezas pensantes Thanks to my friend Juan Carlos in El Salvador for this one. It cracks me up that in Spanish they think, in...

I've been having good look lately with reverso , an online dictionary that's new to me. Even better yet, it has two firefox add- o...

fantastic video! which Argentinian tv refused to air. here they call it la megamineria a lo abierto. what term have you been using? and how...

sufragios y coronas: funeral prayers and wreaths. I was very proud to interpret for Yessika Hoyos this morning at a national labour convent...

planes de vida: plans for life, vs life plans I've seen this phrase, common in Colombian social justice movements, rendered as life pl...

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stakeholders: partes interesadas Wikipedia in english defines as: those entities within or outside an organization which: a) Sponsor a pr...

I've posted twice before about campesino Human Rights Watch recently put out a report on the "new" paramilitaries in Co...

Another useful reminder from the ATA Chronicle article in the December issue on the pitfalls of long consecutive mode in the courtroom, ...

working group (or sometimes comité is more appropriate if it is an ongoing group) NOT worktable or, as I recently heard it rendered, work s...

I couldn't resist posting about this one more time because I really liked the rendition in this article : "the body count scandal...

One of the things we can do to improve translations for social change is to educate our movements on how to write (and edit) documents so th...

artivist: artivista according to the (longer) English wikipedia definition : Artivist is a portmanteau word combining " art " an...

I haven't found a great rendition of the word arenga itself - rallying cry just has a less powerful ring to it. But check out the gre...

One of the skills you need as an interpreter is being able to understand different accents, mumbling, and voices in general. One fun (and so...

I keep posting about this term because it drives me crazy. It is such a dangerous euphemism! I ran into another proposal for what to call ...

The ATA Chronicle had a good article in the December issue on the pitfalls of long consecutive mode in the courtroom by Janis Palma. Som...