There is surely no other way to start this week’s blog than by addressing the major news of the past couple of weeks- after months of debate and speculation, the big contest finally arrived. And against all the odds, the bold, well-organised, and more likeable challenger was overcome by a wealthy, spoilt, and well-groomed opponent. Of course, I’m talking about [Read more…]

Welcome to our latest blog! It was the ancient Greek philosopher Seneca who once said that “Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind”.  Well this quote couldn’t have been more appropriate for us at PerMondo this week, as we have finished projects for organisations in five different countries! I hope you’ve got your passport, suitcase and travel mug at hand, because you’re about to go all over Europe! [Read more…]

Welcome to our first PerMondo update of October!

Hi! I´m Matt, PerMondo’s latest intern and, following Thomas’s departure, I will be keeping you company over the coming few months!

So, here we are: as September 2016 came to a close last week, we prepare to say goodbye to the blistering summer heat of the past few months and begin rummaging around our wardrobes for our sweaters! Fortunately, we’re still enjoying some warmth here in Spain, and at PerMondo our brain power has kept us extra warm after a very busy week! This week we’ve had the privilege of working with many new volunteers on a great variety of projects [Read more…]

Well, we didn’t think it was possible, but this week we’ve been even busier than the week before! The great majority of the words we’ve translated have come from our projects with the Research Institute for Waldorf Education (RIWE), which we’ll tell you about in a minute, but that certainly wasn’t all…

Our collaboration with RIWE goes back a long way, and we’d been working for a long time on the translations that we delivered this week. A grand total of 154,500 words were translated from English into Spanish by our wonderful volunteers, who were also kindly offered a reward for their services. We were helped out on these projects by: Carmen Antsuategi (55,477 words); Maialen Iriso (59,827 words); Estefanía Sánchez Rodríguez (18,279 words); and Rocío Sánchez Lajarín (20,867 words). We’d like to say a big thank-you to everyone involved [Read more…]

Why do bees get all the credit for being so busy? We reckon it’s because people haven’t seen just how busy we’ve been over summer. And anyway, bees can’t translate…

It’s been an extremely busy few weeks at PerMondo, so much so that my fingers are aching as I pound away at the keyboard. We’ve no time to lose, so let’s get straight into the projects that we’ve completed over this past fortnight.

Our first two projects marked a continuation of our long-lasting collaboration with the Research Institute for Waldorf Education. As always for this NGO, we translated three manuscripts from English into Spanish. Ana Vila Ortega translated no less than 77,185 words, and Pamela Tiberi kindly chipped in with a further 4237. We’d like to say a big thank-you to both of our volunteers [Read more…]

Welcome to another PerMondo update! This week, we’ll mainly take a look at the important project that we’ve just completed for ECOFONDO. But let’s not forget the other projects that we’ve also managed to wrap up, all thanks to our tireless volunteers!

We began our collaboration with ECOFONDO back in April this year, and after helping to translate their Spanish website into English, in order to help them spread their environmental message across America, we then got to work on the translation of a further 5 documents (28,329 words). Here you can see an example of one of our translations [Read more…]