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Introduction

For an introduction start, we will try answering a frequently asked question:
“Why on earth should be an Undernet channel called #translate and what can I do there?”
Allow us a few moments and we will try to answer.
As you can see by its name, #translate is a channel that deals with translations from different languages into English and vice versa. When we started, we had about 15 people helping in 7 different languages and extended to 17 languages, and over 35 people helping, at the time this article was published.

“Why do we need such a channel on Undernet?”
Because there are a lot of people in the world who don’t understand English. It can be a problem on help channels most of the time, where volunteers ask the one who needs help to come back later because there isn’t anyone who speaks his language at the time he joins for assistance.

We can help as quickly as possible. The second reason we did this is because I always wanted to learn at least a few words from most of existed languages to impress my girlfriend, friends or even tourists. Also, I met a lot of persons over IRC who I couldn’t communicate too much with. I always bothered my friends to translate some words, to guide the user when helping, or translate “Speak in English, please” to his own language. And that is how #translate channel was born on Undernet.

To give help. We do this only because we care, we do this for free, and *not* to impress anyone. We also try to have a lot of fun, and chat with each other when being bored. Also, keep in mind that the channel is not “English only”, “Romanian only” and never will be. We allow all languages from the bot’s list to be spoken in the channel, even while chatting.

Just remember… Being in a hurry and asking for many lines of translation in a less time won’t help you so much. We suggest you to be patient with the ones who are trying their best to help you. Please read our site sections, because we will always bring something new. I hope you will appreciate our work, and even cooperating in some cases. In the end, we also hope you have figured out that we aren’t such a creepy channel.