Category: Amara Team Guest Posts

Amara Open Thoughts: Alessandra and the struggle of a hard of hearing loved one

Amara Open Thoughts is a new series powered by the Participatory Culture Foundation and Amplifying Voices, where we share stories, listen to people, and give voice to our global community of change makers. Guest post written by Alessandra Pace, volunteer and translator for Amara On Demand Recently I lost one of the most important people…

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The red tale of literacy in Eastern Europe: my language devotion

My relationship with Eastern Europe, where I was born and raised, can best be described as “It’s complicated.”  I am where I am now mostly despite, rather than because of, where I am originally from. At least, that’s what I think today. Political climates and social oppression disturbs our relationship with language in brutal and…

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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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Headbanging, spacewalking and World Wide Web: the Force of inclusion is with us!

May the Force be with you, beautiful humans! Especially those who powered CERN, headbanged at Wacken, wrote on Wikipedia, and built the International Space Station. If you’re wondering how on earth all of those things mentioned above go together, I’ll explain. In today’s Liane’s Morning Talks in the Mirror, I want to talk about our…

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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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