Tim Doner

Timothy Doner

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Language-Based Work and Business Ventures

Polyglotpal

▪ I run my own ad-based Youtube channel called “Polyglot Pal,” where I post videos of myselfpracticing foreign languages and promoting language contests

▪ To date, the channel has received 6.3 million views, while its accompanying Facebook fan page, “Timothy Doner - Polyglotpal” has close to 30,000 likes         
(March 2011 — present)

FluentWorlds

▪Brand Ambassador and Pedagogical Advisor at FluentWorlds, an e-learning platform that immerses users in 3D worlds to improve their language skills. I have helped design ESL curricula, pitched to venture capital firms and identified new markets    
(August 2015 — present)      

Let’s Go
▪Spent two months in Scandinavia as a researcher-writer for the Harvard travel series Let's Go. The 200 page-guide I wrote was published in the fall of 2015.            

(May — July 2015)

Tsez

▪ Edited, glossed and proofread Harvard linguist Maria Polinsky’s seminal work on the Tsezlanguage, “Tsez Syntax: A Description” and catalogued recordings        
(October 2014 — present)

United Nations  

▪ Interned at the UN’s Verbatim Reporters Service as a translator and proofreader of SecurityCouncil documents in Arabic, English and French (completed work includes Security Councilmeeting 7178 on the situation in the Middle East)           
(May 2014)

             

Media Coverage

Interviews        

▪ I have done TV/radio interviews (in languages such as Arabic, Persian and Mandarin) for KatieCouric, The BBC, The Economist, The Today Show, Sunrise, CBS News, Al-Hurra and more

▪ I was profiled in the Google series “THNKR: Prodigies” in a video (“Teen Speaks Over 20 Languages”) that currently has 4.2 million views           
(March 2012 — present)

Print Media    

▪ I have been the subject of full-length articles for The New York Times, Reuters, The Guardian, OutlookIndia, The Huffington Post, NPR, The Osgood File, Tech Insider, 21st Century (published by China Daily) and others.           
(March 2012 — present)

Public Speaking Events

SAPPHIRE

▪ Delivered the first talk at tech giant SAP’s “SAPPHIRE” conference in Orlando to a live audience of 25,000           
(June 2014)

TedxTeen

▪ Gave the first presentation at TedxTeen in New York City. The Youtube video of the talk, under the title “Breaking the Language Barrier”, has over 1.1 million views           
(March 2014)

Apple          

▪ Gave a presentation on language learning to Apple executives in San Francisco as part of apromotional event for the non-profit We Are a Family Foundation        
(January 2014)

Education: Harvard University, Class of 2018, Fall 2015 GPA: 3.9