We are looking to make LingQ a better experience for all users. One of the places we’ve realized in need of attention is the translation of the site into different languages.
What we need is ONE translator in each of available interface languages (except French and Portuguese, those are already covered).
Translator we choose will need to be active, to translate the interface completely and to monitor translations site for changes and translate newly added strings in future.
So please do not contact us if you aren’t serious and if we need to chase you each time we need something translated.
The languages we need help with are:
Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, German, Korean, Japanese, Swedish, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Greek.
Translator in each language will get Complimentary access on the site and once when all translations are done, we will also send you a new LingQ T-Shirt!
Free Premium for as long as interested in helping us with the translations. However there will be of course significantly less work when the complete interface is translated. Simple monitoring for any changes/updates after that.
What’s wrong in giving users a chance to get Premium this way? It’s not asking anyone do to it for free, user can stay on Premium for years if he join this project, and Premium does have it’s price.
We do have paid translators too.
that is absolutely a reasonable offer. I hope Turkish and Arabic interface released soon, then I would like to help with Turkish interface. I have some Arab friends who doesn’t know English and would like to learn Turkish : but they cannot use lingq because there is no Arabic interface.
Translating 118000 words of German is at the very least the monetarily equivalent to 80 years of Premium access, even without having to be available indefinitely at short notice . Poor professional translators, that’s all I’m thinking. And poor people who sign up thinking that this is a good deal. 118000 words is about 300 sides of A4
I’m a statistician and sometimes do data analysis for doctors without borders for free, so I’m familiar with the benefits of sitting at home in front of the computer working for free. It would just never occur to me to do that for a for-profit company.
But then I refuse to give blood in the country that I live in because they pay you and I really don’t like that. I donate when I*m in the UK where they don’t pay you. I suppose I just have more strict principles on what should and shouldn’t be paid for.