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ProZ.com translation contests offer a fun way to take a break from your normal routine while testing and honing your skills with fellow translators.

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25th translation contest: "Alien first impressions"

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Entries	497
Participants	406
Language pairs	83

Inspired by poetry: "Ploughing mountainsides"

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Entries	372
Participants	362
Language pairs	55

Mox presents: "The comic life of a translator"

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Entries	693
Participants	665
Language pairs	71

Bon voyage: "Stories about travel"

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Entries	481
Participants	407
Language pairs	77

21st translation contest: "The tides of tech"

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Entries	586
Participants	540
Language pairs	64

Strange urgency: "The cat"

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Entries	42
Participants	35
Language pairs	11

Benevolent deception: "The placebo button effect"

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Entries	382
Participants	330
Language pairs	57

Translation mash-up: "Dust Bowl"

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Entries	104
Participants	96
Language pairs	42

Homo-digital: "La sociedad transparente"

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Entries	82
Participants	76
Language pairs	23

17th Translation Contest: "The Sounds of Silence"

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Entries	883
Participants	810
Language pairs	77

2014 annual ProZ.com translation contest: "Celebrations"

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Entries	2,840
Participants	2,114
Language pairs	222

Exploring the desert: "The Doomed City"

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Entries	79
Participants	78
Language pairs	18

Sin telaraña en las pupilas: "Frases de Oliverio Girondo"

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Entries	196
Participants	136
Language pairs	20

Poetry with a tune: "Translation of Lyrics"

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Entries	285
Participants	263
Language pairs	38

11th ProZ.com translation contest: "Contemporary society"

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Entries	820
Participants	668
Language pairs	93

Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes"

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Entries	625
Participants	593
Language pairs	64

9th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Business"

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Entries	1,163
Participants	769
Language pairs	141

1st Annual ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Awakening"

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Entries	933
Participants	705
Language pairs	120

7th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Sports"

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Entries	526
Participants	403
Language pairs	107

6th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Relationships"

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Entries	591
Participants	451
Language pairs	98

5th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Travel"

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Entries	464
Participants	358
Language pairs	67

Fourth ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Raising children"

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Entries	518
Participants	393
Language pairs	82

Third ProZ.com Translation Contest

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Entries	230
Participants	208
Language pairs	49

Second ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007

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Entries	119
Participants	95
Language pairs	33

First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007: "First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007"

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Entries	240
Participants	186
Language pairs	18

Recent discussion about ProZ.com translation contests

Impractical layout for rating translations	Opening the contest page in two separate browser windows could be an option Hello Victoria, Opening the contest page in two separate browser windows — and aligning them side by side — could make things easier. If your display size allows doing so, of course. [Edited at 2020-11-28 16:50 GMT]	Ekaterina Veremyanina Russian Federation
Impractical layout for rating translations	I went to the latest contest eager to have a look at the entries and soon remembered that the reason I haven't got involved much in the past is frustration at not having the source text alongside the translation and having to scroll back to the top of the page every 30 seconds. I would suggest either presenting each translation next to the source or (better still) having a button to click - for example, on the same line as the entry number and language - which would display the source as a pop-up. [Edited at 2020-11-27 12:05 GMT]	Victoria Britten France
"Alien first impressions" has moved to hybrid phase	Hi, all! I'm happy to let you know that the translation contest "Alien first impressions" is now on hybrid phase. The following language pairs were placed in "extended submission" in order to receive enough entries and move to the following phase: English to Armenian English to Azerbaijani English to Belarusian English to Dutch English to Macedonian English to Malayalam Spanish to Greek Spanish to Hungarian Spanish to Indonesian Spanish to Polish French to Portuguese (EU) French to Swedish English to Greek English to Georgian English to Gujarati English to Igbo English to Norwegian English to Panjabi English to Swahili English to Thai Spanish to Czech Spanish to Chinese Spanish to Italian Spanish to Turkish French to Bulgarian French to Catalan French to Greek French to Polish French to Swahili These pairs were placed in "qualification", and you can rate the entries submitted here to select finalists: English to Spanish English to Italian French to English Spanish to English English to French English to Portuguese (BR) English to German Spanish to Portuguese (BR) English to Chinese English to Malay English to Russian English to Serbian English to Croatian French to Spanish French to Italian English to Arabic English to Korean English to Portuguese (EU) Spanish to Portuguese (EU) English to Catalan English to Persian (Farsi) English to Ukrainian Last but not least, these language pairs were placed on "finals", and you can vote to select the winner: English to Hebrew French to German French to Portuguese (BR) English to Albanian English to Polish French to Dutch French to Russian English to Czech English to Hungarian English to Swedish Spanish to Arabic Spanish to French Spanish to Russian French to Arabic English to Amharic English to Hindi English to Japanese English to Slovak English to Turkish English to Vietnamese Spanish to German Spanish to Romanian French to Croatian French to Romanian English to Bulgarian English to Finnish English to Bosnian English to Romanian English to Slovenian English to Somali English to Urdu Spanish to Catalan French to Serbian French to Hungarian Happy translating, Julieta	Julieta Llamazares Argentina
New translation contest: "Alien first impressions"	I agree the voting system is not the best Lingua 5B wrote: If this is recreational exercise, it's fine. If it's not, I'm concerned about voting methodology. It appears contestants can either vote for themselves or ask friends to vote for them. Very questionable practice, unless I misunderstood something. You can't vote for your own entry, anyone with a Proz account can vote for you. But there is also another issue with the system. Last time, 14 people submitted an entry in the English-Italian poetry translation contest. My colleague and I made it to the final stage with our joint effort, we waited for the results for months, and nobody won in the end because there were not enough voters. The entry of the person that got the most votes was very good in my opinion and deserved some recognition. As a certified pro member, I would happily volunteer to be part of a team of judges/voters for my language pair every now and then	Elena Feriani Italy
New translation contest: "Alien first impressions"	Click on the context for answers: Quote: About the source texts The source texts for ProZ.com translation contests are typically selected by ProZ.com members with a goal of providing interesting and challenging material that enables top translators to show their talent. To ensure a fair competition, efforts are made to avoid texts for which published translations exist. If you know of the existence of a published translation of any of these source texts into any language, please notify the site staff with a support request. The views expressed in these texts should not be considered representative of the views of either ProZ.com staff members or the members of the ProZ.com community who have selected the texts. Click here to review and propose additional source texts for this contest » It appears the answer to "why" is because somebody proposed it and/or it's been upvoted to other suggestions. This may be an opportunity for unestablished authors to get some visibility on ProZ and Google. If this is recreational exercise, it's fine. If it's not, I'm concerned about voting methodology. It appears contestants can either vote for themselves or ask friends to vote for them. Very questionable practice, unless I misunderstood something.	Lingua 5B Bosnia and Herzegovina

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mariana24

Uruguay

It was fun to translate [the contest source text] because it presents a certain idea or principle in many different ways (and words) and thereby reveals whether the translator has full command of his/her target language.

Anna Haxen

Denmark

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Croatia

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