Català

Hi all,

The last post about the possibility of Catalán being added to LingQ was over five years ago. I am an avid user of the site and I would really love to be able to study it on here since I plan to move to that region of Spain sometime in the future.

Is there any effort to add it right now? And what would be needed?

Gràcies!

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People who want language X are quite vocal, there haven’t been any offers from people here in the lingq community as far as I can tell. However what I do know is that the way to get languages added is my supplying lingq with mini stories transcribed and with audio.

There are 60 in total, from what I have read lingq requires all 60 lessons for a language to be added although I believe danish was added with something like 40. Still the main requirement is that there should be a significant amount of beginnner content.

If a language reaches said requirement it will be added (as per my understanding) no matter how obscure or popular language it is.

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I also think so

How does one go about doing that?

The first step is to find a native who is willing to help you (friends, work colleague, etc.). However if you don’t have friends or acquaintances who speak Catalan, one thing is to ask around on for example Italki if there are anyone whiling to record and transcribed the mini stories and be okay with it being published on lingq for public use.

I believe this is something Steve has done before with some languages (at least for private use), if you ask Steve on Ask Steve how he goes around doing this sort of stuff you might have a better change having him respond personally.

In terms of how to get the mini stories in English or Spanish for the person to use for translating, your best bet would be contact lingq by email, mainly Zoran (support(at)lingq.com) as he is the coordinator for the mini stories project.

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Thank you! They take care of the dictionary, no?

Yep, that’s right, also finding resources other than the mini stories should not be a problem as with some of the more recently added languages.

I have played around with the idea of learning Catalan for a while and a few months ago when I did look I was pleasantly surprised by how much useful content there was in a relatively small language.

I am sure that you already have your own sources that you use for learning the language, but nevertheless here is a link to a thread where I listed resources for lesser known languages (obviously Catalan one of them).

There is probably more for Catalan and I have been meaning to post them separately in a Catalan resource thread which should give anyone who wants to learn ample of content to learn from.

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Message redacted: what I wrote turned out to be false.

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Hi, I’m a native Catalan speaker learning French on LingQ.
I’m also interested in the possibility of Catalan being added to LingQ so I’d have a direct access to Catalan dictionaries.
I’m offering my time to transcribe and record the mini stories in my language on the condition that you make the inquiries about what is really required for a new language to be added and how the process works.

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Hi

I have sent an email about your offer to ling support. There should probably be an answer within 24 hours.

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The first step is to find a native who is willing to help you (friends, work colleague, etc.). However if you don’t have friends or acquaintances who speak Catalan, one thing is to ask around on for example Italki if there are anyone whiling to record and transcribed the mini stories and be okay with it being published on lingq for public use.

Let’s wait and see.
Before I start to transcribe the mini stories I want to be sure that there aren’t any problems of compatibility in LingQ with Catalan.

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What kind of incompatibility could there be? Catalan is a language like any other language and should be available on LINGQ. If I were you, I’d begin right away!

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Thank you so much for offering this. I know there are many other people out there like myself that would love to learn catalan and this would really help

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Sorry, guys, so as it turns out Bulgarian does have 60 mini stories they just haven’t been all uploaded yet, I totally failed to take that into account, Mea Culpa.

However, for anyone wondering the limit to get a language added is 40 mini stories transcribed and recorded. Zoran said he will contact the member of this thread in order to see if we can get Catalan on lingq.

Hi @opel65,
Thanks a lot for your offer to help! Can you please contact me on zoran(at)lingq dot com and I will provide you detailed informations about the project? Thanks!

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As someone who helped coordinate the translators for the Bulgarian mini-stories (not a LingQ employee, just someone who wants to learn Bulgarian and happened to know a couple of native speakers willing to help), I can tell you that all 60 have in fact been translated and recorded; just not up on the site yet

[Edit - gah! sorry; you are already aware of this; I just hadn’t scrolled down to the bottom of the thread.]

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Hola a tothom!
Hi everybody!
I just want to say that I sent an e-mail to Zoran and I’m waiting for his reply.
I already finished transcribing the seven first mini stories. I haven’t done any recording but I’ll do it soon.
Hopefully more people show its interest in Catalan.

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All 60 Bulgarian stories are now up on the site.

All 60 Bulgarian stories are now up on the site. Thanks again for your help! :slight_smile: