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[K. Sargsyan]
I started to translate TEDTalks

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after seeing William Kamkwamba's talk
about how to fulfill your dreams.

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And I told [about] this talk to my son.

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He wouldn't believe me.
He said, "But he dropped out of school."

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"He wouldn't know English.
How would he do this?"

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So I said, "I will translate this."

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"I want him to read every single word."

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[W. Davis] Language is not just
a body of vocabulary

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or set of grammatical rules.

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A language is a flash
of the human spirit.

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It's a vehicle through which
the soul of each particular culture

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comes into the material world.

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Everything that we do at TED
is driven by the same mission,

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which is to spread ideas.

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And if your goal is to spread ideas,
at a certain point,

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you're confronted with the fact
that you're only speaking in English.

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The very root of what we do
is about connectedness.

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There's huge numbers of people

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who can be part of
shaping a better future for everyone.

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It'd be crazy to leave them out.

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[K. Aparta] I wrote them,
saying that these talks

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should have subtitles for the Deaf,

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and also translations
for people from other countries.

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There has to be that one person

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who's so passionate about a particular talk,

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who wants the subtitles to exist
in their language.

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Initially, I started translating
for my sister.

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She lives with my parents

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in a very small town,
where I'm from in Kazakhstan.

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And she doesn't get a lot of opportunities
in exploring the world.

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But then, later on, I realized
it's not just my family.

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Everyone who speaks Uzbek
could benefit from it.

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[M. Pagel] Just as wings opened up
the sphere of air for birds to exploit,

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language opened up the sphere
of cooperation for humans to exploit.

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All of our speakers
are on the edge of their fields,

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and therefore on the edge of language,

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so many of the terms they use
you can't find in a dictionary.

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It actually takes a lot of research
to accurately translate a TEDTalk.

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Depending on how technical it is,
and how many words you have to look up,

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it could take up to 10 hours.

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I go and read about the speaker,
and his books,

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so I get the whole context.

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Because of this community of translators,

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we suddenly have the ability
to find the greatest ideas

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coming from speakers in any language

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and bring them into
the English-speaking world

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and beyond.

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I translate because I want more people
to have access to these ideas.

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It's an act of generosity
from many people,

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just sharing knowledge.

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To inspire people,
to give hope to some people.

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This changes a lot of things in the world.