@LLK @kritzkom For me, translating this content was also challenging, and I’m not 100% satisfied with the Spanish translation I provided. As I suggested in my previous comment, I think that in order to be able to provide better translations for some tricky parts of the original copy, we could review those parts with members who know the original text better and have the capacity to approve both translations.
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Absolutely, some ideas and wordings don’t translate well across languages, and some words can push different meanings. For example, I textbook translated the word race, expecting some correction later on because nobody uses “race” in France to describe people racialized by systemic opression it’s considered an offense and a false concept and is only employed by racists. I was a bit too tired to translate it differently (I thought about using “racialized” as “racisé” its french counterpart is a widely used word right now by the various black, arabic and asian french left organizations, but then I knew it would carry a very specific meaning that maybe wasn’t intended by the original text), but then I saw @kritzkom (I assume) translated it to “origins”, which is a much better word in a way and will be much more acceptable to a french reader, but it also doesn’t mean the same thing at all and you need to mentally fill in the blank to find the initial concept back so there’s a possible discussion there.
All those things are complex topics, and especially since the whole endeavour is to listen and be thoughtful and mindful about eachother, I think it would be great to have a deeper conversation about terminology and translation if we can at some point.
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I could help out with the dutch (NL) part of the translation.
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Yeah I know of it it could help. Lot’s of trial and error, would be still be there though.
Where do I work on the dutch part.
Hi @gintoki ! I shared the link to the spreadsheet in this post Translating Resonate website - #13 by Timothee. I just added an “nl” column for you.
Thanks for you help 
An update:
There is a new effort to rewrite much of the text on the website, being led by @melis_tailored. It would be tragic if any of this translation work were made irrelevant due to these (necessary) rewrites, so I want y’all to be aware of this.
The existing website has been due for an editorial overhaul for some time, so it is great news that work is happening in this area. I encourage @Timothee & @melis_tailored to sync up about if it makes sense to continue translation efforts while the new copy is being written.
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I personally don’t mind if things get rewritten, I’ll just retranslate, but do keep us posted it would be great if both the new translation and rewrite could happen side by side.
Hello,
I would strongly advise waiting to translate any of the resonate site.
It will be completely re-written in the next fortnight, most of the existing site is to be archived and is redundant anyway, as most of what is written is completely out of date.
Any translation at this point is just a waste of time.
I need to finish the copy, then it has to be approved by the board and story team, then we can move to translating.
Hope that’s OK to delay a couple of weeks - thank you for your efforts with this.
Melissa
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Oh no what I meant previously was that I’ve already translated everything a few months ago so the waste of time already happened, but I don’t mind. We’ll translate it again ! It’s a good thing it gets rewritten so I’ll just wait for the new version.
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OK! Hopefully we will be able to reuse some.
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