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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4804 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 17 of 19 25 January 2014 at 12:17am | IP Logged |
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P.S: You've made me look at the lingq website again, out of curiousity. Why do people and companies do something like what I've just seen? Why do they make their site automatically guess the native language of the reader and serve them a bad translation of the website and you have to scroll looong way down to switch to English? Really, their Czech translation is nothing to be proud of. Either they should decide "Yes, we want as many czech customers as possible", and hire someone to transform the eyesore into a good quality language mutation, or they should go with "we aren't against czech customers who know an intermediary language but that market isn't big enough", and they shouldn't make a horrible translation just to have +1 base language.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 18 of 19 25 January 2014 at 4:37am | IP Logged |
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Why do they even assume that language learners want to use site through their native language?
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6704 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 19 25 January 2014 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
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To each, their own. I've lost of count of the threads where members can't find their way through the system at all, let alone in a language they do understand (however, that may be an example of how eager students learn regardless of the interface language, and the ones who need to be spoonfed won't understand even the simplest guide).
As Cavesa says, the translated interface is often incomplete - I know, I've done my share of Swedish but ended up losing my patience when there were too many text strings with only one word (as if there was a one-to-one translation for any given word...). Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 26 January 2014 at 10:42am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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