lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6411 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian
| Message 1 of 32 15 September 2007 at 5:51pm | IP Logged |
How come they've made english translations of the hungarian and dutch courses but not the russian? I don't see the logic there...
Edited by lloydkirk on 15 September 2007 at 5:51pm
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LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6689 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 2 of 32 15 September 2007 at 7:57pm | IP Logged |
Yeah, they need more Assimil English courses. They are also missing Portuguese, and some advanced courses (Italian, and Dutch advanced for example).
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TDC Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6919 days ago 261 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Esperanto, Ukrainian, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Persian
| Message 3 of 32 16 September 2007 at 10:22am | IP Logged |
I wonder if would be legal to translate at least the dialogues into English and post it online so anyone who wants to learn a language where there's not an English version can still buy the French book and use it?
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lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6411 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian
| Message 4 of 32 16 September 2007 at 10:53am | IP Logged |
TDC wrote:
I wonder if would be legal to translate at least the dialogues into English and post it online so anyone who wants to learn a language where there's not an English version can still buy the French book and use it? |
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Perhaps someone could contact assimil to find out? It might give them motive to produce an english translation...One would think that if Assimil had their own interest at heart they would have translated the russian course well before the hungarian. There is a much larger market.
Edited by lloydkirk on 16 September 2007 at 10:53am
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LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6689 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 5 of 32 16 September 2007 at 2:06pm | IP Logged |
TDC wrote:
I wonder if would be legal to translate at least the dialogues into English and post it online so anyone who wants to learn a language where there's not an English version can still buy the French book and use it? |
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Good question.
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 6 of 32 16 September 2007 at 2:53pm | IP Logged |
LilleOSC wrote:
TDC wrote:
I wonder if would be legal to translate at least the dialogues into English and post it online so anyone who wants to learn a language where there's not an English version can still buy the French book and use it? |
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I'm not a lawyer. However, that would be a derivative work, so no, without Assimil's permission, you couldn't. Copyright laws don't allow the translation of works without the permission of the copyright holder.
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lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6411 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian
| Message 7 of 32 16 September 2007 at 3:19pm | IP Logged |
Hmmm...There's roughly 350 people on this forum learning russian, the vast majority of which are more competent in english. If we all flooded Assimil with emails requesting a translation perhaps they would be kind enough to oblige...
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TDC Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6919 days ago 261 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Esperanto, Ukrainian, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Persian
| Message 8 of 32 16 September 2007 at 5:32pm | IP Logged |
Hmm, maybe we could translate the older out-of-print courses?
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