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My name is Charlotte Fagan.

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I am an Account Development 
Associate with Amara.

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And I live in Boston Massachusetts.

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When did you start working for Amara,

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and why you decided to work 
for this organization?

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I was drawn to the mission of Amara

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because I, for a long time, 
have actually made a lot of videos

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and put them online, and edited them

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and I'm very interested 
in how translation happens on YouTube.

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I used to work on a project 
with bike mechanics

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and translating it
into a bike mechanic video manual

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and translating it
into different languages.

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And so when I saw this job post at Amara

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I thought: wow, this really combines
a lot of my interests.

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Do you have your own YouTube channel?

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Or have you edited 
for other organization?

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Video work that I've done before...

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I used to work 
at an organization here in Boston

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called Bikes not Bombs.

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Which is when we worked on this 
video mechanics manual,

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and thought a lot about how do you reach
different audiences around the world

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because so much content is available
about bike repair on YouTube

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but only in English.

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So we started producing videos
that were also available in Spanish

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and those videos were really popular.

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Those are probably the most popular videos
that I've worked on YouTube,

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I also on Vimeo have a series of videos up

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on the Bikes not Bombs YouTube Channel.

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and my user name is called
Woman on a Wheel,

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which is my blog 
about women's cycling culture

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around the world.

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You also take part in a lot 
of different bike-related activities

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and initiatives

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before you came to Amara.

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- Can you talk about one of them called...
- Carishina en Bici

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Oh, yeah! that one

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Carishina en Bici is also interesting

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because since Amara works with translation

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Carishina is a Quechua word

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which is an indigenous community 
in South America

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and the literal translation
for Carishina into Spanish

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is a woman 
with little abilities in the kitchen.

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And it's often referred to women

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who in English you would call tomboys

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it's slang.

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So I was in Ecuador working at a bike shop

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and a customer came in 
and saw me working on a bicycle

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and said "Que carishina"

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which is really meant as an insult
but I kind of liked the word

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and so some friends and I got together

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and formed 
this group called Carishina en Bici

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and we organized a lot of different events

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to get more women riding bikes in Ecuador.

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Do you have any opinion about...

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what do you think 
the future of translation might be?

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Overall, I think that translation continues

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to be more and more important

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as we have a more interconnected world

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and as different communities
interact with each other more

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they need translators between them.

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In general,

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the future is just 
the growing importance of translation

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as a really important localization solution
for businesses

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and just an interpersonal, you know,

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as people want 
to connect with people around the world

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who speak another language.

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