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Author: Thais Barros

Localization as a gateway for cultural appreciation

Localization as a gateway for cultural appreciation

The existence of the internet has made it possible for us to be in contact with people from all over the world, people that we might never have had the chance to interact with otherwise. We can be in contact with so many different people and their cultures. The exponential growth in the internet community…

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Culture and Appreciation
Working with translators and subtitlers from around the world: fun and challenges

Working with translators and subtitlers from around the world: fun and challenges

This year I’m completing 6 years working as a project manager with Amara On Demand. Over those years, I had and continue to have the pleasure of working with people from all around the world – both from the internal Amara team and from our team of linguists. Today I want to share a little…

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Culture and Appreciation
Why translation and localization are important parts of my path in life

Why translation and localization are important parts of my path in life

Making media content available and accessible gives people like me the choice to explore and learn regardless of language barriers. It makes us all more connected, because when we can understand each other’s media, we are closer to understanding each other too.

Culture and Appreciation
Delightful memories and accidental tomato plant, or cooking with kids as education for cultural immersion

Delightful memories and accidental tomato plant, or cooking with kids as education for cultural immersion

The other day, my nephew who is almost 2 years old, visited us with his mom, and was obsessed over the tomato plant I have at the front of my house.  This tomato plant was accidental, meaning it just showed up on my snake plant vase, after I used some home made compost on it….

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Accessibility and Captioning
Cooking: Travel Around the World with Your Tastebuds

Cooking: Travel Around the World with Your Tastebuds

In my journey of discovering and trying out recipes from different countries and cultures, I often come across different measuring units and making a wrong conversion can make a recipe go downhill pretty quickly. One time I made the mistake of thinking a “cup” meant the same thing no matter where you are, and my…

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Accessibility and Captioning
Around the world, one recipe at a time

Around the world, one recipe at a time

A video from a creator from Turkey, sharing a recipe for a classic Turkish dish, with tips and secrets they learned from their matriarch… now available to me, and you, and anyone else with an internet connection. This video showed up as a suggestion in my feed, of course, after I had already watched many…

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Culture and Appreciation

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