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Ethiotrans.com is using social media to reach people who want to teach or learn Amharic. Amharic lovers and supporters across the globe are joining the social media to be part of this project. So far, more than 2200 fans have joined the project and the numbers will grow daily.

Asrat behailu bogalech girma hanna

Hussen king liyu meron mulugeta


Finally the day is coming.

Finally the days are coming.

For Ethiotrans it took more than a decade and finally things are coming true one thing at a time. One of the reason Ethiotrans opened its door was inspired by a personal will to see when unreserved populations are severed well.  This could be in medical, court, technology, entertainment, sport, education and other areas.  For years,  English language has been a DE-facto language for everything,  still it is. The young and the educated once  who have  access and will   to master the English  language are  able to receive or give services in English as ease,  but the elders and the uneducated once and those people do not have will, access and time to master English were/ are left alone to catch up with the rest or forced to withdraw from the race. But,  step-by-step things are changing. Thank you for the digital age, revolution or era the world is shrinking and we are  more closer than ever, now at a point and place in this planet  a human king can read or write an information in their own language, but still not satisfactory but better than before.

The battle is still going,  and it will take years to have a common ground but it looks there is a bright hope at the end of the tunnel.  For example,  if we take just an example the computer/digital revolution we will see how much is has been  evolving and becoming  more global than ever.  Just as an example  about 12 years ago when Windows  98 (R)  was king and Unix and  Lunix were at their infancy stage  and The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was the dominant factor. Means,   the entire operating system were depended on only 128 characters. With ASCII and Extended ASCII  the digital revolution was targeting only LATIN based languages and it was called global. It was kind of joke, because how could you call a product global when the majority of the world population was left out in the  dark. But that did stop smart people to out-smart the system, they created the backdoor and able to force the system to their own advantage.

Editorial (Magazine and Newspaper) Modeling Editorial Models are the best of antivirus software solutions that have  However,  the introduction of UNICODE changed the entire game upside down. With UNICODE more than 65,000 characters were represented (The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode contains a repertoire of more than 110,000 characters covering 100 script). Guess what with that huge number   not only we can cover the world but we have several leftovers. That was a dream come true for Ethiotrans. Back in 2002 when we started our  dream  we knew the world is converging to this end. At that time it was risk  to create a company hoping there will be clients,  but we knew it will be the future. Now look around, the world is mobile and more connected. Computers and devices are smart enough to read and write the world.  Companies are recognizing the importance of globalization and they start catering the world in a fashionable way. Now, not only they are reaching more customers and audiences but they are ripping off more profits,  because they have a true global product. But still there are Billions (Billion with B) of people around the world are still left out,  one day we will reach them.  One day we will speak their language. When we do that we can  proudly say we have a global company.  But we have miles to go to reach at the  finishing line, it  is very far away.

Yesterday was a special day, w hen we received a call from Mr. Horsley it was kind of unusual, it was a dream call we have been waiting for long time. He said he is from a group in  California advocating for equal access for Limited English Proficiency population in California. He asked  us to set up an appointment to talk about his vision and we scheduled an appointment the same day. Ms, Horsley came and we talked. It took years to see such an activist to recognize our dream and hope. Now group of community activists and labor leaders in California are about to take the equal access language issue  to Sacramento. Now California is about to recognize the importance language in medical field. We at Ethiotrans.com believe a good communication between doctors and patients can save money for the tax payers and life for the patient. As Mr. Horsey put is “ I am an American, born and raised here, I don’t speak or hear any language but only English, assume I go to Ethiopia  and I get sick and go to doctor where I don’t speak any Ethiopian language, assume the doctor does not speak English and he gives me all medical instructions and conducts all medical interviews in Ethiopian, what do you think I will feel?” He asked . Yes, that is exactly what we see every day. People cannot tell their symptoms and issues to the doctors and doctors cannot explain   procedures and diagnostics results to their patients, at the end it may lead to  misdiagnosis even wrong full death   . This can be resolved simply by  medical interpreter. That is what   Health Care AKA Obama Care will have as part of the package. But it will be up to the state to enforce it and put it in laws. Some politicians are not happy with this , but it will be up to us to make it happen.

If you are the one who  believe in Equal Access please contact us and we will give you a specific information how to become part of  this movement . For more information please send your info to info@ethiotrans.com


Amharic Language Courses to Be Offered in Chinese Universities

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Addis Ababa University recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Beijing University of Foreign Studies (BFSU) which will enable the latter to offer Amharic language courses to Chinese Students. The courses are scheduled to begin by September 2013. The agreement was signed in Beijing between Dr.Admasu Tsegaye, President of Addis Ababa University, and President of the BFSU Mr. Han Zhen.

The signing represents further progress in the burgeoning people to people relations between the two countries. Dr. Admasu, on the occasion, noted that Addis Ababa University had upgraded its Chinese Language training program to a bachelor’s degree level. The AAU delegation, led by Dr. Admasu, also held discussions with the leadership of BFSU on more ways to promote staff-exchange, short to medium term student and learning materials exchange and to strengthen their shared programs.


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SERVICES BY ETHIOTRANS

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These are partial list of services and language packs for Ethiotrans.com.

  • Voice Over Recording Dubbing Subtitling Dubbing Script Adaptation Content Localization Language Adaptation Transcreation Transcription Terminology Management Machine Translation Post-Editing Cultural Consulting Language Quality Assurance Desktop Publishing (DTP) Audio/Video Localization Documentary Films Localization E-learning Localization Help Content Localization Game Localization MOOC Localization Translation Memory Management CAT Tools Management International SEO Global Content Management Global SEO Cross-Cultural Training Language Proficiency Testing Voice Talent Management International Digital Marketing Global Social Media Management Content Writing in multiple languages Website Localization Mobile App Localization Marketing Translation Technical Translation Medical Translation Legal Translation Financial Translation Certified Translation Notary Translation Apostille Translation Patent Translation Immigration Translation E-commerce Translation Automotive Translation Manufacturing Translation Oil and Gas Translation Mining Translation Telecommunications Translation Technology Translation Banking Translation Insurance Translation IT Translation HR Translation Food Translation Beauty Translation Fashion Translation Travel Translation Tourism Translation Hospitality Translation Sports Translation IT Localization Marketing Localization Software Localization Game Localization Website Localization Mobile App Localization E-learning Localization Help Content Localization MOOC Localization Documentary Films Localization Video Localization Audio Localization Voice-over recording Subtitling Dubbing Dubbing Script Adaptation Content Localization Language Adaptation Transcreation Translation Memory Management CAT Tools Management International SEO Global Content Management Global SEO Cross-Cultural Training Language Proficiency Testing Voice Talent Management International Digital Marketing

LANGUAGES 

1    Afar
2    African French
3    Africana
4    Agew
5    Algerian French
6    Amharic
7    Arabic
8    Assamese
9    Azeri
10    Bambara
11    Bengali
12    Bosnian
13    Brazilian Portuguese
14    Bulgarian
15    Castilian
16    Chinese
17    Croatian and Bosnian
18    Czech
19    Danish
20    Dari
21    Deresagna
22    Dinka
23    Djibouti French
24    Dutch
25    Dyula
26    Esperanto
27    Farsi
28    Finnish
29    Fon
30    French (Canadian)
31    French
32    Fulfulde
33    Georgian
34    German
35    Greek
35    Gujarati
36    Guragigna
37    Harari
38    Hausa
39    Hebrew
40    Hindi
41    Hungarian
42    Ibo
43    Indonesian
44    Italian
45    Japanese
46    Kannada
47    Kashmiri
48    Kazakh
49    Kembatagna
50    Kikuyu (Kenya)
51    Kirgiz
52    Kiswahili
53    Krio (Sierra Leone)
54    Latvian
55    Linglala
56    Lithuanian
57    Luganda (Uganda)
58    Malay
59    Malayalam
60    Mandingo
61    Maninka
62    Marathi
63    Mende (Sierra Leone)
64    Ndebele
65    Ndebele
66    Nuer
67    Oromo
68    Persian
69    Polish
70    Polish
71    Portuguese
72    Pulaar
73    Punjabi
74    Romanian
75    Russian
76    Sanskrit
77    Serbian
78    Serbo-Croatian
79    Slovak
80    Somali
81    Spanish
82    Swahili
83    Swedish
84    Tsonga
85    Tadjik
86    Tamil
87    Telugu
88    Thai
89    Tigrigna
90    Turkish
91    Turkmen
92    Ukrainian
93    Urdu
94    Yoruba
95     kirio
96    Uzbek
97    Vietnamese
98    Wolof (Senegal, Gambia)
99    Xhosa
100    Zulu


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AFRICAN LANGUAGES SUPPORT

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AFRICAN LANGUAGES SUPPORT

Dear: Translation and Interpretation Project Manager,

By now you may heard about our name, we are www.Ethiotrans.com . We started our company in order to fulfill the high demand of  African languages translators , interpreters and localization  experts  to support in today’s  fast growing digital world. Our company is a result of   several years of experience, unique skill   of  highly qualified individuals.   We are also focusing what we know the best, i.e. the AFRICAN LANGUAGES.   Our African professionals network and so wide and we have unlimited access to the African professionals we recruit the best of the best translation and localization professionals in this business. All of our professionals are native speakers for the primary language they are working on and fluent in English, French or another language they are assigned to work. Most of our translators have possessed at least a 4 years of degree and several years of experience. Our translators have various skills; including but not limited health, journalism, engineering, teaching, law, immigration, graphics design, and several other professionals.

According to the workload we had in Y 2004, we identified these languages as our core and frequently assigned languages. These are, Amharic (Ethiopian), Somali (Somali),

Tigrinya (Ethiopia and Eritrea), Oromo (Ethiopian), Dinka (Sudan), Nuer (Sudan),  Arabic (Africa, Middle East), Swahili (East Africa) and Fulani (West Africa).

The followings are some of the services we are offering:

 DESK TOP PUBLISHING

In addition to translation and interpretation services, we have a graphics and web site developing  services. We have in house DTP experts in leading DTP applications such us, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PhotoShop, Indesign, PageMaker, Quakerxpress, Corel Draw and several other DTP tools. We have all the fonts needed to work on African languages including hard to find fonts and UNICODE fonts.

 

UNICODE CONVERSION AND WEB SITE LOCALIZATION.

If you have a project that involves web site localization and Unicode conversion project, please let us know. We have several years of experience developing web sites for several African speaking audiences and if you have a project that needs to be converted to UNICDE we have a tool to convert the non-Unicode font to Unicode font and make it ready for web site publishing. We are experts on FrontPage, Macromedia Dream Weaver, Fusion, Fire Works and Flash, Adobe GoLive and several other web developing tools.
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 LOCALIZATION:

Well, there are few companies need to support the African languages for there software. But according to Bill Gate (The father of Microsoft), the third word countries will be the next frontiers for software companies. We are prepared for that explosion; we have teams who are experts on localizing software for African languages. When you have a project that needs resource translation, testing, debugging or developing entire software let us know. We are experts from high level programming (c++ and java) to low level programming (Assembly and C). We are familiar with   Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual Embedded, Wise Windows Installer, Doors, Install Shield, RoboHelp, Trados, Multilizer and SDL Localization tools

CITIZENSHIP

Also if you company have any need for only US citizen translators we have them too.

I am forward to hear from you, if you have any question please let me know I can be reached at a@ethiotrans.com or amde@yebbo.com  or via phone at 619 255 5530 or 619 254 2932

Thanks,

Amde Mitiku

President

Ethiotrans.com


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ክፍት የስራ ቦታ ለስራ ፈላጊዎች በሙሉ፡፡

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የተቸገረን ለመርዳት፡ እራዳታ በተፈለገ ጊዜ በጊዜው ተገኝቶ ወገንን ከጭንቅ ለማዳን፣ ካለመግባባት የተነሳ የሚመጡ ችግሮችን መፍትሄ ለመስጠት፣ በትምህርት ሂወትን ለማዳን እና የወገንን ሂወት ለመቀየር የረጅም ጊዜ ፍልጎትዎ እና ህልምዎ ከሆነ፣ እንዲሁም  በስራዎ ኮርተው ባደረጉት ነገር እረክተው እና መንፈስዎ ታድሶ ለወገን ጠቅመው እንዲሁም ለልፋትዎ ክፍያ የሚያገኙበት ስራ ለመስራት ህልምዎ ከሆነ ፣ ከእኛ ጋር ቢሰሩ ህልምዎ እውን ይሆናል፡፡

በአሁኑ ወቅት በአለም አቀፍ ደረጃ በግንባር ቀደምትነተ የኢትዮጵያን እና የአፍሪካን ቋንቋ ለድርጅቶች፣ ለግለሰቦች እና ለመንግስት ተቋማት የቋንቋ እና የሶፍተዌር ንድፍ አገልግሎት በመስጠት ላይ ያለው ኢትዮትራንስ በአሁኑ ወቅት አገልገሎቱን በማስፋፋት በአለም አቀፍ ደረጃ እውታሩን እየዘረጋ ነው፡፡ ሰለዚህም እርስዎ በኢትዮጵያም ውስጥ ሆነ በአፍሪካ ወይም በሌላው አለም ያለ ቋንቋ የመናገር፡ የመተረጎም ፡ እንዲሁም የመፃፍ ልምድ ካለዎት በትርፍ ጊዜዎ እና እርስዎን በተመቸ አይነቱ የተለያዮ ክፍት የስራ ቦታዎች ስላሉን ዛሬ ነገ ሳይሉ ይመዝገቡ፡፡

በአሁኑ ወቅት ከዚህ በታች ያሉትን ተግባራት ለማከናወን ዝግጁ የሆኑት ግለሰቦችን እንዲያመለክቱ በታላቅ ደስታ እንጋብዛለን፡፡

ትራነስሌተር (በጽኁፍ ተርጓሚ) እርስዎ ኢትዮጵያ/አፍሪካ ውስጥ ካሉት  ቋንቋዎች ውስጥ አንድ ወይም ከዚያ በላይ እና እንግሊዘኛ ችሎታዎ የላቀ ከሆነ፣እና ከዚህ በፊት በተለያዮ አጋጣሚዎች የሰሩ ከሆነ ይፃፉልን፡፡

ኢንተርፕሬተር (በቃል ተርጓሚ) ይህ ደግሞ እንድ ሰው በፍርድ ቤት ፣ ሆስፒታል፣ ትምህርተ ቤት እና የመሳሰሉት ቦታዎች ለመግባባት ተቸግሮ የራሱን ቋንቋ ተናጋሪ በፈለገ ጊዜ እርስዎ የግለሰቡን ቋንቋ እና እንግሊዘኛም ሆነ ሌላ ተፈላጊ ቋንቋ ተናጋሪ ከሆኑ እንዲያመለክቱ እንጋብዝዎታለን፡፡

ፕሩፍ ሪደር(የጽሁፍ እርምት ሰጪ) እብዛኛውን ጊዜ አንድ ትረጉም በተለያዩ ሆኔታዎች ችግር ሊኖረው ስለሚችል ይህን ትርጉም እርምት መስጠት ልምዱ ካለወት ይጻፉልን፡፡

ቮይስ ኦቨር( በድምፅ) አንዳንድ ጊዜ ማስታዎቂያወችን እና ማሳሰቢያወችን በሴትም ሆነ በወንድ ድምጽ እንድንቀዳ ሰለምንጠየቅ ድምፅዎ መረዋ እና ለዚህ የተፈጠረ ከሆነ እንዲያመለክቱ ተጋብዘዋል፡፡

ኤክስፐርት ዊትነስ ( በሙያው ጠለቅ ያለ እውቀት  ያለው ምስክር) ለመሆኑ በሃገራችን ውስጥ ሰላሉት የባህል፣ የሃይማኖት፣ የቋነቋ፣ የፖለቲካ ብሰለት እና የመሳሰሉት ላይ ጠለቅ ያለ እውቀት አለዎት? መልስዎ አዎ ከሆነ ይጻፉልን፡፡

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SAN DIEGO — When Sahro Nor, 47, came to San Diego from Somalia 18 years ago, she was pregnant. When she went into labor soon after, her western delivery room felt familiar. She was a midwife and registered nurse back home.

But the delivery wasn’t easy.

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“They were asking me, ‘What’s wrong? What’s wrong with you? The baby isn’t coming out because everything is sewed,'” Nor said.

Like a lot of East African women who came to the United States in the 1990s, Nor was circumcised. The cultural practice removes parts of the genitals. Stitches and scar tissue narrow the birth canal. For a circumcised woman to give birth vaginally, the doctor would have to make incisions to re-establish the birth canal.

Nor’s doctor had never seen a circumcised female patient.

Nor didn’t speak English at the time, so she said she tried to describe the procedure she needed by pantomiming through the pain and chaos of labor. It didn’t work. The baby came before the cuts were made, causing Nor a lot of pain and, eventually, permanent numbness.

Her story is just one in a catalogue of medical mishaps and nightmares refugee women in City Heights are sharing with their community. They’re asking residents to sign a petition to get insurance providers to cover face-to-face translation in doctor’s offices and hospitals.

Though the state requires all medical providers to offer translation, current services fall short. Most rely on special phone lines for translation, which are based out of state and offer little control over the gender (Muslim women prefer female translators) and dialect of the translator.

Even with phone services available, a slapdash approach to translation is the status quo. Providers and patients often rely on neighbors or children, who cannot legally act as interpreters in California.

Prescription labels are printed almost exclusively in English, even though the state’s Board of Pharmacy offers translated labels online at no charge.

Nor and other women leading the campaign say they want to ensure their family and friends are safe when they visit a doctor. But their cause is made even more significant by its timing – on the heels of federal health care reform.

The Affordable Care Act is expected to change the face of the nation’s insured population – a sea change that has the medical industry scrambling to scaffold more culturally competent care.

Health researchers at PricewaterhouseCoopers estimate one in five insured patients will be non-native English speakers once state health exchanges roll out. That’s up from one in eight.

In City Heights, even the providers best-equipped to work with refugee and immigrant populations admit they need to do more.

La Maestra Community Health Center sits across the street from the East African Community and Cultural Center and a few blocks from San Diego’s Little Saigon district. Signs in the facility are posted in both English and Spanish. Nearly 100 percent of the patients fall at or well below the poverty line.

To serve such a diverse neighborhood, the clinic’s CEO and founder, Zara Marselian, hires from within the immigrant and refugee communities to translate and do outreach. She calls these employees “cultural liaisons.”

“With the Indochinese we have the Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Laotians. Now the Burmese are here – a lot of Burmese,” Marselian said. “We have three cultural liaisons with them and that’s still not enough.”

The liaisons typically get training in more traditional clinic roles – in part because it helps if a translator knows about prescription drugs or insurance eligibility, but also because Marselian can’t get reimbursed for translation alone.

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Zuledka Wajo, 29, said that connection is important. She emigrated from Ethiopia six years ago and said language barriers breed fear in the refugee community that keeps individuals from getting the care they need.

She said refugees often put off going to the doctor because they think it will make things worse. Some of the women reported receiving the wrong medication, a misdiagnosis – even the wrong surgery – because they couldn’t communicate with their doctor.

“When I came (to the United States), people told me if I go, the doctor will turn it into a big deal,” Wajo said. “So I just suck it up and learn to live with it. If they don’t have a really, really (bad) problem, they don’t want to go because of the fear.”

For Wajo, the horror story that stuck was one from her nephew. She said the 8-year-old was asked by an Oregon doctor to translate for his Amharic-speaking father, who was being told he had terminal cancer.

Wajo said she only recently worked up the nerve to be seen for a persistent rash. It appeared six years ago.

Wajo joined Nor and about 20 other women involved with the nonprofits City Heights Hope and the Mid-City Community Advocacy Network earlier this year to collect the many stories they’ve heard – and told – about health care in the United States.  Together with Bill Oswald, a researcher hired by The California Endowment, a private health foundation investing in City Heights, they interviewed more than 200 refugee women.

Oswald said two-thirds of the women felt communication was very poor between them and their doctor.

He said a vast majority of the women speak more than one language even though they don’t speak English. Many are taking English-language classes but are not yet proficient.

But whether the women are acculturating is a moot point for Oswald – he said people should think about the human cost of poor medical translation.

Almost 30 percent of the women interviewed reported guessing their medicine dosage; 10 percent threw their medication out altogether because they were afraid they would take the wrong amount or it was for the wrong ailment. Patients who didn’t speak English were two times more likely to require repeat visits for the same symptoms.

“I think that puts a lot of stress on the system and there are a number of ways where the cost, while not calculated, is extremely high,” Oswald said.

The financial cost could soon become more of an incentive for health care providers to patch cultural gaps. Under health care reform, hospitals can be fined for having too many unresolved cases and repeat visits.

The law will also expand cultural competency training and offer diversity grants to bring more ethnic diversity into the health care industry.

The women campaigning for better translation in City Heights are counting on one specific piece of the Affordable Care Act to help change their health care experiences.

They plan to send their petition to the board overseeing California’s insurance exchange. The board members are tasked with setting regulations for participating insurance companies. The women want face-to-face translation coverage to be one of the prerequisites.

A board representative did not return a request for comment.

In the meantime, Nor sees another opportunity for change. Second-generation refugees are beginning to enter the health care industry, including her daughter, who recently graduated from UC San Diego and is planning to become a doctor.

“(A young woman in the community) she took that OB/GYN lesson and now a lot of young women who are pregnant and circumcised enjoy her,” Nor said with a smile. “They say, ‘Oh yeah!’ So we’re happy with that.”