The Project

In the year 2022, during the 1st year of the Master's in Translation and Multilingual Communication, at the University of Minho, the three creators of this website (and of course all their classmates) were given the task of creating a "garage project" to present at the end of the semester. It was supposed to be a kind of "passion project", something the students would be interested in creating and developing even after the class was over - a task proposed by professor José João Almeida.

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The 3 students then decided to try to solve a major problem they had encountered many times during their training as masters students: the lack of resources for translating idioms in the languages they worked in. So, for 6 months, the students began the long and laborious process of collecting, organizing, and cataloging the expressions they found.

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The result of this work was the Glossary of Commonly Used Expressions, which can be found on this website.