2PM’s Nichkhun and GOT7’s BamBam Encourage Fans to Donate through Flitto

Two artists from JYP Entertainment, 2PM’s Nichkhun and GOT7’s BamBam, started their month of June with a good message to spread. Through their YouTube videos, they have invited their global fans to make donations to a project that aims to help the Moken children in Thailand.

This fundraising project is the first project that has emerged from the collaboration between the translation platform Flitto and Plan Korea, a nonprofit organization. The aim of the project is to help the Moken children who live in poor conditions and lack the opportunity to get a proper education. The Moken tribe live on the west coast of Thailand and are known to be sea wanderers, which limits them on the opportunity to get educated. What makes this fundraising project different is the fact that people do not have to spend a single amount of money to make donations. They can simply do translations on the Flitto app, earn points, and donate those points to the Moken children project.

Although both Nichkhun and BamBam are mostly active in Korea, they hope that they can make a small contribution to their home country through this small gesture. Through this short video, Nichkhun and BamBam hope to get the support from their global fans to help the people in Thailand who are in need. One of the best parts is that people can make donations under the name of their favorite idols, stars or their name.

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In an interview Simon Lee, founder and CEO of Flitto, says that he hopes to bring people who know more than one language together in Flitto to help those who are less able.

Check out the other videos from Nichkhun and Bam Bam (all the videos have subtitles)

Nichkhun (Thai version)

BamBam (Thai version):

Flitto Guide: How to use Flitto

Now that you finally know what Flitto is (if you don’t, you can find out here) we’ll walk you through how to use Flitto. You might think that’s hard at the beginning, but after you’re done reading this, you’ll be an expert at Flitto 🙂

HOW TO USE FLITTO

1. Download the Flitto app in your android or iOS (it’s FREE) OR on the web www.flitto.com

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2. Sign up with your Facebook/Twitter account or your e-mail address.

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3. If you’re signing up with your e-mail address, make sure you input your correct address, write your username and password, and select the language you speak. If you speak more than one language, please select it so that you can do translations.

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4. Congrats and welcome to Flitto! You’re done signing up. Pretty simple, right? Just make sure that you validate your e-mail address and you’re set to enjoy all the features in Flitto XD
Before you start, check out our awesome Flitto guide to get an idea of what you can do in Flitto.

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5. Your news feed looks empty, right? Go to Add to follow your favorite stars and brands. Once you follow them, you’ll see their updates (translated) on your news feed.

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6. Go back to your news feed or click on the profiles of your stars to see their updates in your language. Click on the “flag” icon to choose the language you want to read it in.
If you speak more than one language, you can support your star by doing translations by clicking on the Flitto button. You can also validate other people’s translations by clicking the happy face for good translations and the sad face for the bad translations.

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7. If you need translations, you can also request them on the Flitto tab. Just click on the red pencil icon and select what kind of format (text, image, voice) you want to request. Select from what language to what language you want your translation, put your request, and select the points you want to give to the user who translates your request. **Tip: the more points you give, the faster and more accurate the translations you’ll receive!

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8. Do you speak more than one language? Then take our Flitto test to become an official translator at Flitto. Just go to the Flitto tab and click on the “Practice and become a translator!” Take the test and you’re set! You’ll start receiving translation requests from other users to earn Flitto Points.

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9. Once you’re done with our training test, you’ll start receiving translation requests by other users. Just click on the Flitto icon and you can input your translation to earn points.

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10. As we mentioned above, you can use your points to make donations to children in Thailand or Kenya or buy awesome deals in our Flitto Store.

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Congrats! You’ve finished reading this post. You should be an official Flitto expert by now 😀

However, if you still have questions or awesome feedback, please feel free to contact us at help@flitto.com.

 

 

 

 

 

Flitto Guide: What is Flitto?

You might have seen many stars mentioning “Flitto” on their twitter account and I’m pretty sure many are thinking “WHAT IS FLITTO?” Well this post is dedicated to those curious minds out there.

WHAT IS FLITTO?

Flitto is a global crowdsourcing translation platform that is used by 3+  million users from around the world. You can easily request translations for text, voice, and image or read a variety of content in your language. Flitto translates Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Weibo news of your favorite stars, fun web comics and fan-arts, or awesome e-commerce deals in your language for FREE!

Flitto currently supports 17 languages: English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian, Russian, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, and Turkish.

Do you speak more than one language? Great!
Use your awesome language skills to do translations, help other people AND earn points as a reward!
You can also translate your favorite stars’ updates and support them by helping them spread what they say to fans around the world!

So what can I do with my points?
Every time you translate you earn points, which you can:
1. Exchange for money
2. Donate to charity projects
3. Shop for awesome deals online

So what is crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcing basically means that it is done by the crowd. This means that the translations that you request on Flitto are sent to our 3+ million users around the world, who do the translations for you!

You can learn HOW TO USE FLITTO here.

Your translations in Flitto DO make a difference!

Our Flitto team felt very encouraged today when we saw a translation request by one of our Flitto users saying:

“I just want to say a big THANK YOU to all the english to korean translators. You have been lifesavers. You have helped two adopted sisters reunite with their birth family after 35 years. Thank you so much!”

It feels great to know that Flitto is helping to make a change in the lives of many people. Even though it only takes a few minutes to do one translation, this was a great reminder for all of us and to our Flitto translators that the translations that you make on Flitto DO matter and DO make a difference!

We hope that these words serve as an encouragement to you as well!

 

Flitto’s new feature: Donation!!

Hello Flitto friends,

Seems like May has been flying like a jet plane and we are already on the verge of spring! Time goes by fast as we are getting busier with everyday routines. Many of us tend to be too focused on “living the moment” and tend to forget about the people who are in need. Are we too busy to help others? Do you find yourself constantly saying that you have no time? We often think that we need to physically be at an actual place to help people or spend our cash to make donations. Our Flitto team, however, thinks otherwise and this is exactly why Flitto has created the new donation feature!

Flitto opened its donation feature today, which lets its users donate their points to charity projects. We signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Plan Korea, a regional branch of Plan International last week and has also partnered with GlobalGiving, a charity fundraising website to set off its new donation feature. You can find the feature under the Flitto’s Event tab.

Flitto users can select the fundraising project and choose the amount of points that they want to donate. We currently have two projects, but there are more to come. The two projects are Global Giving’s “Clean Drinking Water for 1250 Villagers in Morocco” and Plan Korea’s “Child Education support Project for the ‘Moken’ of Thailand, Gypsy Sea.” Plan Korea’s project aims to provide children in the area with environmental and educational support and ensure the right to basic education.

Flitto is constantly working on creating various ways to give translators alternative compensations beside the cash incentives, and donation is one of them. Now Flitto also provides people who are fluent in foreign languages the opportunity to use their talents to make a change in society. Do you want to be part of this amazing feature? What are you waiting? Join Flitto and make a change for a better world!

 

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Flitto Store Renewal, Donation, & Translation Event

Today we have great news to all of our Flitto users:

1. Our new Donation feature has gone live! You can read more about it here.

2. Our Flitto store has reopened after a massive (and awesome) renewal. You can now find coupons, delicious snacks, gift cards, and accessories in the Flitto Store.

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3. Flitto’s doing a translation event for our users in Korea, where you can earn points, products, and even flight tickets by doing translations in from Korean to English, Chinese, and Japanese! We’re even doing offline marketing to reach out to awesome potential translators!

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Yesung, Kangin, and Choi Sung-Joon leave their voice recordings EXCLUSIVELY on Flitto!

On our earlier post, we introduced our new voice recording feature on Flitto, where you can listen to K-pop celebrities recordings AND understand what they’re saying in your language.

Well, as promised, we got the voice recordings of new K-pop stars on Flitto. The line up for today’s K-pop stars’ voice recordings are: Super Junior’s Yesung, Super Junior’s Kangin, and Choi Sung Joon who’s starring in Share House.

Make sure you stay tuned for new artists!

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Earn money by translating on Flitto!

There are million of people around the world who are extremely talented and languages, but no one really offers them any compensation for their language skills and this is where Flitto can help you.

If you know more than one language, you can easily do translations through your smartphone (iOS/android) or pc (www.flitto.com), earn points and exchange them for cash! Do translations when you have some extra time in your hands, when you’re taking the bus on your way home, or when you want to practice a language you’re learnign!

A lot of our users do translations on Flitto and exchange them for points. They do such an amazing job that we sometimes wonder if their main job is to be translators on Flitto 😛

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JYP Artists use Flitto!

We have great news for our fellow Hottest, Say A, I Got7, and JYPE fans.

2PM, Miss A, GOT7 and JYP are using Flitto!

If you’re talented in languages AND love JYP artists, don’t miss out on the opportunity to help your celebritie and fellow fans by translating their tweets in your language. Flitto does various events where we have giveaways of autographs, autographed items, and more for our top translators!

Also, if you’re a hottest, you definitely have to check the Fun section on Flitto for cute OKCAT cartoons.

Check out the tweets!

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Study groups in Flitto

At Flitto, we try to create a company culture that promotes self-development and where everyone can learn, be creative and challenge each other. This is why some of our team members have decided to create “study groups” on topics that interest them.

We have study groups on topics like html, Javascrip, photoshop, python, English, and more! Interested team members join for the study group an hour before work to study and help each other out.

The best part of our study groups is that we get the full support from our company. Books, programs, and even breakfast are provided by Flitto! 😀

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