towerofbabel.com is a non-profit organization, the translators are
voluntary and work on the site because they enjoy it (kind of like
Linux). Simply read the content on the site, choose which pieces
you'd like to translate and in exchange get your resume featured
on
the site. There are monthly reminders to find out who is translating
which article so the translators don't tread on each other's toes.
What multilingual translator can resist being able to put on their
resume or CV: "Worked on the Tower of Babel."?
The building of Babel, the multilingual, multicultural online journal
and community of arts and ideas, is an enormous project which will
require a lot of help from multilingual people from all walks of life.
The goal, obviously, is to eventually be able to have all of the
present and future content on the site translated into each and every
one of the world's languages. Currently, Babel is seeking translators
who are fluent in the following languages:
Achinese, Afrikaans, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian,
Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Baluchi, Bambara, Bashkir,
Basque, Batak Toba, Baule, Beja, Belorussian, Bemba, Bengali, Beti,
Bhili, Bikol, Brahui, Bugis, Bulgarian, Burmese, Buyi, Cantonese,
Catalan, Cebuana, Chagga, Chig, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Dairi,
Danish, Dimli, Dogri, Dong, Dongola, Dutch (Belgian), Dutch
(Standard), Dyerma, Dyula, Edo, Efik, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe,
Finnish, Fon, French (Belgian, Canadian, Luxembourg, Standard,
Swiss), Fula, Fulakunda, Futa Jalon, Gaelic, Galician, Ganda,
Georgian, German (Austrian, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Standard,
Swiss), Gilaki, Gogo, Gondi, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Gusii,
Hadiyya, Hakka, Hani, Hausa, Haya, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Ho,
Hungarian, Iban, Icelandic, Igbo, Ijaw, Ilocano, Indonesian, Italian
(Standard, Swiss), Japanese, Javanese, Kabyle, Karo, Kamba, Kannada,
Kanuri, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kenuzi, Khmer, Kikuyu, Kongo, Konkani,
Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lampung, Lao, Latvian, Leyte, Lingala,
Lithuanian, Luba, Luhya, Lulua, Luo, Luri, Luxembourgish, Lwena,
Macedonian, Madurese, Makassar, Makua, Malagasy, Malayalam,
Malaysian, Malinke, Mandarin, Manx, Marathi, Mazandarani, Mbundu,
Meithei, Mende, Meru, Miao, Mien, Migindanaon, Min, Minangkabau,
Mongolian, Mordvin, Moré, Nepali, Ngulu, Nknole, Northern Khmer,
Northern Sotho, Norwegian (Béchamel, Nynorsk), Nung, Nupe,
Nyamwezi,
Nyanja, Oriya, Oromo, Panay, Pampangan, Pangasinan, Pashtu, Pattani
Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian, Standard),
Provençal,
Punjabi, Quechua, Rajang, Riff, Romanian, Romany, Ruanda, Rundi,
Russian, Samar, Sango, Santali, Sasak, Serbian, Sgaw, Shaba, Shan,
Shilha, Shona, Sidamo, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga,
Somali, Songye, Soninke, Southern Sotho, Spanish (Argentina, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala,
Mexican, Modern Sort, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Traditional Sort,
Uruguay, Venezuela), Sudanese, Sukuma, Swahili, Swedish, Sylhetti,
Tagalog, Tajiki, Tamazight, Tamil, Tatar, Tausug, Telugu, Temne,
Thai, Tho, Thonga, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tonga, Tswana, Tudza,
Tulu, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukranian, Urdu, Uzbek,
Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolaytta, Wolof, Wu, Xhosa, Yao, Yi, Yiddish,
Yoruba, Zande, Zhuang, Zulu
Until we receive funding for the project we won't be able to
compensate anyone financially who chooses to work on the site, but
even so, Babel provides a rare opportunity for worldwide exposure for
your work, as well as the option of having your email address
attached to your work and the chance to impress others with your
translation skills should you choose to put "Worked on the Tower of
Babel" on your resume or CV. If you have a look at the tracker on the
homepage you'll be able to see just how quickly the world has
already
taken to Babel. And if you're a undergraduate at a college or
university, Babel also provides an opportunity for you to receive an
internship triangulated with your educational institution for the
work you do with Babel. The details are at
towerofbabel.com/internships.
Below you'll find not just a list of all of the translators who
have
helped Babel so far, but actual links to their resumes. Present and
future translators also have the opportunity to have their resume
featured on the site in exchange for translation work done for Babel.
http://www.towerofbabel.com/translators/
Take care of each other,
Malcolm Lawrence
Editor-in-Chief
Babel: The multilingual, multicultural online journal and community
of arts and ideas.
http://www.towerofbabel.com
ICQ: 4661293
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