Zoran has said many times that there are about 30 different languages being translated at the moment. I assume a large part of those are common languages (Spanish, Chinese, etc.). If I remember correctly he also mentioned in one post that Slovak is about to be added to beta languages in the near future. Are there any other exotic languages being translated. Now of course exotic is an ambiguous term but I am excluding language that are already on Lingq or Scandinavian languages.
I am particularly interested in knowing if Swahili, Afrikaans, Malay are being translated.
I’ll mention a few interesting languages we are getting translations for in Mini Stories project: Malayalam, Tatar, Farsi, Indonesian etc… It doesn’t mean that all this languages will be added to LingQ, but if we get 50+ Mini Stories for them translated and recorded in appropriate quality (with some additional Beginner material), we’ll be glad to add them.
Unfortunately no Swahili, Afrikaans or Malay at this moment.
Slovak will be added to Beta soon. 50 Mini stories for it are ready and the volunteer who helped us translating and recording them will upload more material once when the language is up.
I have been trying to coordinate Bulgarian speakers - I am currently editing a recording of stories 11-20 by one friend (which suggests that someone else has already done 1-10), and a second friend has asked for another set of stories to translate, though I don’t know if Zoran has had time to get back to her yet. I don’t know if Bulgarian is exotic enough for you
Yeah, Bulgarian is definitely a exotic language to me. That is great news, if I am not mistaken are a few lingers who have expressed disappointment about there not being Bulgarian (as of yet, at least). I don’t know if I will study Bulgarian myself but I have been playing around with the idea of retracing the oriental express train route. Or at least one part of it, If remember correctly there were three common route one of witch went through Sofia. Well, time will tell.
And I repeat my question: Where is the French vershion of this course???
We are speaking about some small languages, but French is a one of the most imprtant languages!
No Mini-stories in French - it’s a nonsense!!!
Yes, your friends are working on stories 11-20 and 21-30. another volunteer should be working on stories 1-10, so hopefully first 30 Bulgarian stories will be ready soon.
Problem with French was that we didn’t had first 5 mini stories completed (actually we did, but the audio quality wasn’t good enough), while we do have stories 6-15 and 31-35 completed with great audio quality. Volunteers are currently working on stories 1-5 16-25 etc…
Today we decided to start uploading courses in all languages, since stories aren’t related and it will be fine even if we upload stories 6-20 at first and add stories 1-5 later.
That means that French will be uploaded today. Same goes for Dutch and a few more languages.
Not sure. I asked him now to confirm if he is still working on stories 1-10 and if he’ll do audio too. If not, I’ll ask your friends if they are able to translate stories 1-10 too.
Hello! Bulgarian native over here. Do you need more help? I have a few friends who’d like to learn Bulgarian who are frustrated at the lack of online courses and I’d be happy to contribute if you guys are working on setting one up on here.
It would be great if Bulgarian appeared on LingQ. The other day I ordered Teach Yourself Complete Bulgarian. It seems only Slavic languages get along with me. Also, it seems very similar to Serbian.
