TED Translators

Promoting Chinese culture and learning in the local community. The driver behind is that I am away from home across continents, and where I live has no Asian or Chinese community. I think we have a lot of interesting information to share and it is great for young generation to absorb some basic concepts about the culture and languages. My voluntary experience in the local community included giving talk to the local primary school about Chinese New Year, and showing them some artifacts related to the celebrations; demonstrated Chinese cooking with the pupils and the most recent is running a chinese cultural group in the local library with the support of the local council.

discovering new things. Because human brain would suffer from starving if a man doesn't feed it with new horizons.

Kazakh-language journalism, and the unglamorous work that keeps it alive — training reporters in small regional newsrooms, translating what the world is reading, and making sure the tools of the moment work in our language too. I'm also drawn to the places where language policy, media freedom and technology overlap: who gets to be understood by a machine, and what it costs a society when its journalists have to work in someone else's language to be taken seriously. And teaching. I've been in a classroom since 2014, and I still think a good question from a student is the fastest way to find out what you don't actually understand.