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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 9 of 11 10 June 2015 at 10:54am | IP Logged |
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Those translation come straight from a dictionary, but not a very good one I'm afraid.
That's one of the reasons I started the project - freely available dictionaries (that you also can use offline and transfer to your kindle for example) are often not of high quality, especially for the less-commonly learned languages. It's unfortunate when not even one of the suggested translations is applicable. I had a similar experience with a freely available Kindle-dictionary for Swedish - it offered many translations, but I have never in my life even seen half of them (the English words) and was left utterly confused. It might or might not have had the right translation among them - I couldn't spot it. With low-resource I mostly mean linguistic resources (corpora, machine-readable dictionaries, NLP-tools, ...). But they are usually also low on learner resources and less-commonly learned/taught. There is plenty of learning material for Bokmål, not so much for Nynorsk I'm aware of (especially if we assume no prior knowledge of a Scandinavian language). For my level I would already be glad if I could use Nynorskordboka on my kindle, this would make life so much easier. Edited by daegga on 10 June 2015 at 10:54am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 11 11 June 2015 at 7:49am | IP Logged |
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One point I noticed was that the word class more often than not was completely off the mark - even in cases where the basic meaning was correct. This may complicate your evalution of the results both because the respondents may act differently in such cases and because you don't get the two kinds of errors nicely separated.
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4666 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 11 of 11 14 June 2015 at 5:34am | IP Logged |
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Longer texts (like this one) would be more suitable:
http://www.nrk.no/verden/det-svenske-kongehuset-teier-om-mod ellfortida-til-sofia-1.12407039 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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