Xexeco, The Spectacled Bear Goes Live In this blog issue, I want to share my experience not as a translator but as a writer and author. I hope it will inspire you to write this or maybe that, whatever inspires you. Translators and interpreters have so much to tell, in many languages, to the […]
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