The Pirate Professor, Martin Benjamin

The Un-Planned Podcast with Florian Faes

Florian Faes is the CEO & Co-Founder of Slator. He's also a friend and former colleague who has lived extensively in Europe and Asia.  In this un-planned meandering podcast, Florian and I discuss an array of subjects including, but not limited to, wisdom teeth, bear attacks, trail running, Duff McKagan, life in Asia, Switzerland, and the US, business, video editing tools, video transcription, and of course the timely and pretty much obligatory topics of AI and ChatGPT. Slator https://slator.com/ The Mark Shriner Podcast https://markshriner.com

The Pirate Professor, Martin Benjamin

Martin Benjamin is a multilingual lexicographer and language technologist who is trained neither as a computer scientist nor a linguist. While learning Swahili for his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale, on the relationship between poverty and aid in rural Tanzania, he launched the Kamusi Project in 1994, using what would come to be called crowdsourcing as a tool for compiling lexicographic data in the Internet Living Swahili Dictionary. Requests for other African languages to be included in Kamusi led to the development of a multilingual data model that can, in principle, interlink an unlimited number of languages. In this podcast Martin shares his thoughts about cars, the issue of "underserved languages," and explains why he believes that Google Translate and other machine translation engines have "gotten it wrong."  He also talks about the work that Kamusi is doing to help make information from all languages more accessible. Kamusi https://kamusi.org/ [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEFNejd3M2FiWnNXN09NX0ZRNXVDa0NtSWlKQXxBQ3Jtc0treDQ5bHR6TlB6eXRNY3FOMHVsMWN4N2wyRlhHT1FvTWRicGVZbkMybUV5NEpTSk53VWphUFIyTlR3Z1RpU19DOUhtaHpELWNfb0tvZzJMdzFFaFkxNTVtQUphMnFTM1JfZ0JwV2RYb1IwWlh6TkNoMA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fkamusi.org%2F&v=1qJxEuurUYs] The Pirate Professor http://youtube.com/@pirateprofessor [http://youtube.com/@pirateprofessor] 0:00 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJxEuurUYs&t=0s] Introductions 8:18 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJxEuurUYs&t=498s] Thoughts on Car Culture 21:40 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJxEuurUYs&t=1300s] The Reason Martin Started a Youtube Channel 26:05 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJxEuurUYs&t=1565s] Martin's Background 27:10 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJxEuurUYs&t=1630s] Challenges for Underserved Languages 32:30 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJxEuurUYs&t=1950s] Issues with Google Translate 42:20 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJxEuurUYs&t=2540s] Challenges from Polysemy & Multi-Word Expressions 53:54 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJxEuurUYs&t=3234s] More Challenges for Underserved Languages Mark Shriner https://markshriner.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmxWTC1pNFhKY3lUTVdTaWVSN3RRMWN5TTRPZ3xBQ3Jtc0trNEpkU0traU9FTmtFRC1jWF9lYjVYQmh3TjdNLXhHbFNmQ3lKa2ZUOXVpRXVsQ2F0R2R0WVgtZlhFeVRhdm9Va3VqVTdRWG9KSlFuNHdDczY0SWlCRF83b3p4dnpiQzJPOHZObzBFYnFlZlJicmVHTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fmarkshriner.com%2F&v=1qJxEuurUYs] https://securetalkpodcast.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbExyeEJkVEdROG9MNjdqemlmdGY5UG40dkNyQXxBQ3Jtc0trVWd5b0pDNFdXbGJSLXZEbWpPM3E0SEZXOUtZemZ5aDB4bkZibFpNekhnRnhfa2hqSjVIbHhhbHRCbUk3YlVPZ0tRUFBPTGpJZ1VPR2loLWdLWlFMMlRZcUZqSHJRMlJYT1l5bWEydGtjLWRlYnlRQQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fsecuretalkpodcast.com%2F&v=1qJxEuurUYs]

The Translation Industry Transparency Board (TRI-TRAB) with Maria Scheibengraf

María Scheibengraf is an award-winning Spanish translator, marketing, transcreation, UX/UI & SEO expert,  copywriter, and author of The SEO Translation Bible.  She is also the Co-Founder of Crisol Translations and the Founder of the Translation Industry Transparency Board (TRI-TRAB).  Maria talks about why she decided to create TRI-TRAB, why it is needed and how it will help both translators and buyers of translation services.  She also discusses  some of the challenges that she is facing during the launch phase. Links: https://tri-trab.com/ [https://tri-trab.com/] http://www.crisoltranslations.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmlZMktxSHBYVFRJSTN6UXNFVm8zZndiTUswZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuYWNLR0NJS2d0RldjQUVuVmVZSDVvRW1lOWJxczVBbVpTTWYxN1VZSTdVbFpqYjdBQ1RKNUtCR3lUbW5tdy1zRHhjdU42Z3drOVh5U2ZNNks1QTVQRmtjSWUzbUdSS1N2TVkycVMxZ0ZGMHRJYlJRdw&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crisoltranslations.com%2F&v=nEb8Fj-0Cgs] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariascheibengraf/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariascheibengraf/]https://www.instagram.com/crisoltranslations/ [https://www.instagram.com/crisoltranslations/]https://www.crisoltranslations.com/downloads/the-seo-translation-bible/ [https://www.crisoltranslations.com/downloads/the-seo-translation-bible/]

How to Patrick Chew Learned to Speak More Than 20 Languages!

Patrick Chew is self-taught polyglot who speaks over 20 different languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Bhahas Indonesian, and more.   In this episode Patrick talks about how he became interested in learning different languages, what motivated him, and what techniques he used to accelerated the learning process. He also shares his views on learning more than one language at a time, neural plasticity in adults, and what are the essential ingredients in any successful language acquisition plan.

Developing Mental Toughness in Young Athletes

Troy Horne's son Moses has a goal of becoming a professional basketball player. Troy and Moses both recognized that the journey would be physically and mentally challenging. So what does Troy do?  He researches about the mental skills used by world class athletes that help them to outperform the competition. And then, he, along with Moses, wrote a book, Mental Toughness for Young Athletes: Eight Proven 5-Minute Mindset Exercises for Kids And Teens Who Play Competitive Sports. [https://amzn.to/3CrQSNx] This book is, pound for pound, one of the best books I've read on the subject and it leads several categories on Amazon.  Troy and Moses do a great job of introducing a key principle or mental skill, describing a real life example of that skill, and then provide an easy to do exercise to develop that specific skill.  It was written to be read by young athletes, but there is an edition of the book for parents and coaches. In our conversation, Troy explains why he decided to write a book, talks about some of the challenges of being a parent, and also discusses some of the key mental skills needed by young (arguably all) athletes. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptbfz3yvog The Book Mental Toughness for Young Athletes: Eight Proven 5-Minute Mindset Exercises for Kids And Teens Who Play Competitive Sports [https://amzn.to/3imVA8I] Troy's Website https://www.gamereadycourse.com [https://www.gamereadycourse.com/]  Other Podcasts by Mark Shriner The Secure Talk Cyber Security Podcast [https://securetalkpodcast.com]