Drear Friends,
my name is Piotr (Peter) and I am a school teacher from Poland. I have been practicing mindfulness for several years. It all started around 2020 when I read a book Happy teachers change the world by Thich Nhat Hanh and Katherine Weare. I often watch videos of Thay’s talks on YouTube and listen to recordings in the app. I noticed that there are no Polish captions. In fact, many people in Poland still don’t know Thay’s books and talks. I would like to help and prepare some captions in Polish.
All the best for All! 
Greetings from Poland! 
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Hello friends,
My name is Jamie, and I live in Canada (snow above my knees as I type this, blizzard rolled through last night!). I have been practicing meditation and mindfulness off and on for the past 10 years. This is my first foray into subtitling, but I am excited to get started! I have always been skilled with language and writing, so I’m delighted to put my skills toward a great cause. In my spare time I can be found cuddling with my cat, writing, or trying to learn musical instruments.
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Ciao! from Rome! I am very glad for the opportunity to might be helpful for Plum Village Sangha! I am a zazen practitioner and I have been in Plum Village two summers ago, following a dream since I was twenty! It has been a so deep amazing, important experience! Since pandemic time I start listen to dharma talk from Plum Village through the app and then on youtube channel. Recently I knew about the possibility of traslate the video in subtitles. Thanks for this App now and the possibility to sharing. To be sincere, I am not so sure that I will be able to traslate correctly from English to Italian, because I never done before a professional traslation and I am not so fluid using pc and web, but I have very good intentions to try! And knowing that there is this support, encourage a lot. Thank you all for all. Thanks to all the Brothers and Sisters to divulgate, to trasmit the beauty and the importance of the Practice, of our lifes, of all is aroud and with us…and thanks (I must say…) for the…music! I love the cd “a cloud never died”.I believe that teaching of the great Master Thich Nhat Hanh is still alive, in Plum Village, and more, throug all of you with us . Grazie infinite!
francesca
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Goodmornig Tuyen, and thank you a lot to have make first sign on my “introduce yourself”!
This early morning I started to work in Sr. True Dedication “15 minutes guided meditation on body scan” on Amara, additing italian subtitels. I don’t know if I can ask you…I am working with mobile (I have pc but not so easly I can use)…and on Amara it appears me on left part of the screen, the english subtitles and on the right I have started the first “bozza” in italian subtitle. I have some dubts…the english version on the left appears to me, not so complete as in the youtube video, and if I try to add some words in italian on the right closer to the words in the video, the program doesn’t me allow to do it…
Maybe in Italian should be a shorter version than in English? or from pc might be better? Maybe from a little mobile screen I jump some passage…
Thank you for any help or advise, anytime you can, to suggest me how I might rightly continue. Thanks a lot! Enjoy your day,
very grateful,
fancesca
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Hi, my name is Alexandra Vrsalovic, I am from Chile so my maternal language is Spanish, Latin American Spanish. I love to read Thich Nath Hanh books, and listen (in Youtube) many of his teachings. I noticed that many of those videos don’t have captions in spanish, so I decided to contribute doing translations like a way to contribute with his legacy… Also for me is a very kind way to understand more his message and receive his deep teachings… Thank you for the posibility to contribute …
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Dear Thay, dear community
May you be in peace and happy when you read this message.
My name is Bea. I become a Plum Village practicioner since august 2023 when I had the first oportunity to retreat in Upper Hamlet.
I have no words enough to explain what this community means for me and my heart. I will try to translate as much as possible, depence of my conditions.
I wish you all the best,
A lotus for you
Bea_The Promise of the Spirit of the Source
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Yay hello dear Bea, lovely to have you here 
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Dear Jas, hello! lovely aswell hear from you! 
Dear respected Thay, dear brothers and sisters, dear friends,
I am Susanne from Maastricht, Netherlands and I practice in the plum village tradition since 2019. Since I read an article from Thay and his vision of a “monastery in a pocket” and struggling in the beginning with my daily practice and feeling disconnected I was so happy to dive into depths of the teachings with the support from the app an became a supporter myself. I am so grateful for all the resources that are offered and I want everyone to be able to transform their suffering, to listen to the teachings and to practice, so they can be more peaceful and happy in their life and help others to do the same. I can help with english, dutch and german subtitles. I am happy to know if you have any requests. Thank you so much plum Village app team for your wonderful work and support!
May all being be happy, peaceful and at ease. With a smile and a lotus, Susanne
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Hello friends!
I downloaded the Plum Village app last year and have been enjoying the YouTube channel since then as well. I noticed in a video’s description that subtitles were needed on some videos. I thought it would be a nice opportunity/challenge for me to add subtitles in Spanish.
I just added Spanish subtitles to this short so I could familiarize myself with Amara site. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPll3_LKmhc
Thank you for making this content available and so accessible
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Dear Friends,
My name is Julien and I live in Normandy, France. I have been practicing with the “Plum Village” app for two years, and I attended the five training sessions at the village last week.
My native language is French, but I have a very good understanding of both spoken and written English.
A few years ago, I did some volunteer translation work on the Coursera platform, particularly for Robert Wright’s course “Buddhism & Modern Psychology.”
I would now like to help translate short videos into French. I recently tried using Amara for the first time and translated this video: Happiness Is the Way - Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh (Mindfulness).
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Hello dear friends 
I’m Tom, from London, UK and have been practising with Wake Up London for a number of years. I was interested in contributing to the community by helping out with English subtitling, and was planning on starting with this shorter video No Craving, Nirvana & Letting Go | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video). Helping out here seems like a nice opportunity to listen closely to Plum Village teaching as well as helping to improve their accessibility. Thanks to everyone working in this community!
A lotus to you all
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