Martin Benjamin is a multilingual lexicographer and language technologist who is trained neither as a computer scientist nor a linguist. While learning Swahili for his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale, on the relationship between poverty and aid in rural Tanzania, he launched the Kamusi Project in 1994, using what would come to be called crowdsourcing …
María Scheibengraf is an award-winning Spanish translator, marketing, transcreation, UX/UI & SEO expert, copywriter, and author of The SEO Translation Bible. She is also the Co-Founder of Crisol Translations and the Founder of the Translation Industry Transparency Board (TRI-TRAB). Maria talks about why she decided to create TRI-TRAB, why it is needed and how it …
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Patrick Chew is self-taught polyglot who speaks over 20 different languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Bhahas Indonesian, and more. In this episode Patrick talks about how he became interested in learning different languages, what motivated him, and what techniques he used to accelerated the learning process. He …
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Stolen Focus, Why You Can’t Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari The Shallows, How The Internet Is Changing The Way We Think, Read, And Remember by Nicholas Carr Proust and the Squid, the Story and Science of the Reading Brain, by Maryanne Wolf I recently did a bit of …
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Troy Horne’s son Moses has a goal of becoming a professional basketball player. Troy and Moses both recognized that the journey would be physically and mentally challenging. So what does Troy do? He researches about the mental skills used by world class athletes that help them to outperform the competition. And then, he, along with …
In this episode I talk with María Scheibengraf and Jost Zetzsche about how the language technology we use affects the way we communicate. We drill down on the effects of some of the tools used in the localization industry such as machine translation and discuss ways to possibly use these tools in more effective manner. …
Sensei John Solheim has been practicing Karate since 1992. The focus of his teaching and instruction since 2000 has been on Karate as it applies to self-defense and as a tool for his students to achieve self-actualization. In this episode, John talks about how he got started in Karate and explains some of the key …
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