Adding New Languages (Finally!)

That would be great Jaroslav. First we have to see which language wins. We will be doing this regularly, so even if Czech does not win on the first go around, it will eventually.

@Konstantina, who wrote: “I receive very hostile comments (towards Russians)”

Again OffTopic, but I think I know and understand the whys of such hostility fairly well. I am usually very glad when other people from Russia understand it. Actually the people of Russia, no matter ethnic Russians or not, have been often suffering more than their opponents or victims from their own unfortunate history and fate.

Still, it’s a huge country, with many human achievements, including the literature and the culture. And it is not the communist totalitarian country any more.

Latin?

Arabic! But if not… Dutch.

My wishlist:

  1. Any of Slavic languages (Czech is fine, I have already voted for it).
  2. Latin.
  3. Arabic.

Korean

I voted Cantonese but will probably have a look at the winning language no matter what it is.

Arabic, please, please, please :slight_smile:

greek please

BOTH PLEASE! (but preferably Dutch if that’s not possible^^)

Ebonics!!!

Well I voted for Polish… shouldn’t surprise anyone that’s familiar with me on the forum. I hope it wins cause I could really use some more transcript/recordings the sooner the better I’ve almost ran out of stuff… :frowning:

after Polish I would probably vote for Czech… Eventually I’ll move to Russian. To me it seems like the grammars of the Slavic language make them difficult to learn on your first one, but then they’re such similar languages the ones after get easier… yet they’re still different enough that I don’t think you’d make the same pronunciation code mixing errors like someone that’s learned say Spanish and Portuguese…

I would love to have Polish but if that is not the case, Czech would be fine. A few years ago a polish friend told me that Polish was very hard to learn. Knowing how stubborn I can be sometimes, I decided to try it anyway. Two years later, I can hold a basic conversation to the dismay of my friend and believe it or not, it has help me a lot with my Russian. I would like to continue studying Polish thru LingQ specially now that we have some friends from Poland. To all those that asked for Polish…Dziekuje Bardzo.

Arabic.

We will be adding languages slowly because every language brings with it problems, people complaining the lack of content, or the quality of the content, about mistakes in the content, or missing sound files, or unhappiness with the dictionary or something. So we want to go one at a time.

Arabic will be on the list one day. First we have to look into the technical issues of dealing with a language that goes right to left. If there are people with experience in that regard, we would appreciate hearing. But Arabic is at least a few months away, realistically.

first i want to learn korean then i can help you learn Turkish

I would like that you add Korean although writing is quite difficult.

@ Steve’s: “First we have to look into the technical issues of dealing with a language that goes right to left”

You are right Steve, it is a technical issue, which cannot be answered in general terms. The hardship of the implementation depends very much on the choice of the development environment. I know of some tricks in my environment, which differs from yours.

Anyway, if one looks at the specific programmers’ forums, one finds a lot of pain expressed and the specific advice offered in that regard. The only general thing seems to be trivial. If the right-to-left had not been planned from the very beginning, the restructuring of the existing code may take a lot of effort.

I prefer Polish, of course. I had been learning it some time ago and it was very interesting. I don’t have enough time now to learn two languages simultaneously, but I hope I’ll have a great time learning Polish on my summer vacation. There is not much beginner and intermediate Polish content on the internet (I mean transcribed audio). I hope LingQ users’ points (and my points, too) will help native Polish speakers create some amount of lessons understandable for intermediate learners.

Is there a way you can “sticky” the link so it’s more easily accessible (maybe make it show up on the home page)? I think that would help get more votes since the link is currently a little hidden on the second page of this topic.

For the record I voted Korean :slight_smile: