# Offering help with Brazilian Portuguese translations
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283
**Category:** Translations
**Created:** [November 23, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283 "2016-11-23T00:51:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@rberaldo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rberaldo)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283/1 "2016-11-23T00:51:52Z")
Hi,
I love Discourse, thank you for making this great piece of software. You’re awesome!
I’ve just installed it on my local LUG server. However, some of the translations to Portuguese aren’t great. Many are missing and some are just awkward. So, I’d like to contribute. I’ve already joined Transifex and have started contributing. Is the pt\_br team really active? Translations seem a bit out of date.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283/2 "2016-11-23T00:59:17Z")
Hey Rafael, Rafael here 😄
Please, we are in dire need of translations.
I have done a lot of it two years ago, but couldn’t continue.
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### Author:  [@rberaldo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rberaldo)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283/3 "2016-11-23T01:03:19Z")
> [@Falco](#):
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> Hey Rafael, Rafael here 😄
Coincidences such as these can’t be ignored! 😛
Alright, I’ll get to work right away. So the text has been left untranslated for two years?
I have a question: if I translate a string, is it approved immediately or do I need to wait for somebody to approve it for me?
Thank you for replying so quickly!
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283/4 "2016-11-23T01:12:56Z")
> [@rberaldo](#):
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> I have a question: if I translate a string, is it approved immediately or do I need to wait for somebody to approve it for me?
It’s is. I don’t think there is too much on the review part in pt-BR.
We usually pull translations every 15 days or so, so it will take a little bit for you to see it.
Also, I think the convention is:
reply == resposta
topic == topico
post == mensagem (tem idéia melhor?)
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### Author:  [@rberaldo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rberaldo)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283/5 "2016-11-23T01:17:14Z")
> [@Falco](#):
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> We usually pull translations every 15 days or so, so it will take a little bit for you to see it.
No problem! I’ll be manually changing things in my instance until the translations start trickling down.
> [@Falco](#):
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> reply == resposta
> topic == topico
> post == mensagem (tem idéia melhor?)
Great, thanks for the heads up. The glossary had “post == publicação”, so that’s how I translated it. What do you think? That might be better, since it won’t conflict with “message”.
**EDIT:** I understand what a “staged user” is, but how the hell am I supposed to translate that into Portuguese?! Santa paráfrase! 😆
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283/6 "2016-11-23T01:19:56Z")
> [@rberaldo](#):
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> The glossary had “post == publicação”, so that’s how I translated it. What do you think? That might be better, since it won’t conflict with “message”.
I forgot about that. `Publicação` looks good.
What’s the LUG you are part of?
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### Author:  [@rberaldo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rberaldo)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283/7 "2016-11-23T01:21:57Z")
> [@Falco](#):
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> What’s the LUG you are part of?
We’re just starting a LUG in São Carlos, São Paulo. Please take a look at our site at [sancalug.org](http://sancalug.org). We’d be honored to have you join us there, just bear in mind it’s early days!
How about you? You’re a Discourse developer?
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### Author:  [@rberaldo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rberaldo)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-help-with-brazilian-portuguese-translations/53283/8 "2016-11-23T02:28:35Z")
(By the way, I can’t change strings that have been reviewed. I’ve added some suggestions to `imgur/server.en.yml`.)