About Ernesto
Bio
I’m an English-Spanish Translator. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Linguistics with a major in Translation.
I’m so interested in video subtitling, mainly in acquiring more experience in this field and in learning more audiovisual translation software and tools.
I'm passionate about
Video subtitling, Languages, TV series, and Martial Arts.
An idea worth spreading
“If a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.” – Marcus Aurelius
Areas of expertise
Translation
The TED story
Almost at the end of 2020, I was reading an entry about ways of working as a translator on a web page. I saw that TED was listed there. Since it was about video subtitling, I was so interested (plus, I had watched some of the videos of TED talks and that I really liked). Also, I considered this was a good way of gaining experience in this field since, just a couple of months before that, I had taken an online course on subtitling tools.
So, I singed on to TED web page and tried to join the translators’ team. Unfortunately for me, they were migrating to CaptionHub platform at that time. So, I had to wait for several months until this migration was completed.
I remember that I used to check every couple of months to see if it was possible to take the quiz since that was something I really wanted to do… Until one day, on October last year, I got home and turned my PC on. I typed TED in the browser, and I realized that it was possible to take the quiz… So, I did it without hesitation and I got in!
Things you might not know
Mexican Sign Language (I'm not a pro but I have taken a few courses on this and I've been able to communicate with some deaf people)