Cibele Alves Lopes

About Me

I am a multilingual translator, interpreter, language educator, and researcher with a passion for rare languages, cultural heritage, and the intricate relationship between language, history, and identity.

I work with 25 languages, including several rare and less commonly studied languages, and have built my professional and academic journey through years of living, studying, and working in different countries across Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Experiencing these cultures firsthand has profoundly shaped the way I understand languages: not merely as systems of communication, but as living expressions of history, memory, identity, and human experience.

My professional background brings together several fields that may seem different at first, but are deeply connected: translation and interpreting, language teaching, forensic linguistics, epigraphy, paleography, neurolinguistics, and audiovisual production. I have also worked with television and radio, bringing linguistic expertise into audiovisual and multicultural environments.

I have a particular interest in languages and cultures that are often overlooked in mainstream language education. I believe that every language, regardless of the number of its speakers, carries a unique worldview and preserves something irreplaceable about the people who speak it.

Having lived between different linguistic and cultural worlds, I have developed a perspective that goes beyond conventional language learning. I am interested in what lies beneath the words: the historical layers, cultural meanings, linguistic structures, pronunciation, identity, and the stories that languages preserve.

For me, languages are not simply something to learn.

They are something to discover, investigate, preserve, and experience..