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 We welcome translations for the lessons in this curriculum!
 
+> Note, please do not use Google Translate or other machine translation tools for translations, but rather use your own proficiency and manually translate the files.
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 ## Guidelines
 
 There are folders in each lesson folder and lesson introduction folder which contain the translated markdown files.