This is wonderful. I am so pleased to find people using my conversational connectors, and translating them to other languages. This whole sharing of knowledge is exactly what I was hoping for when I first published them. To be honest, I have neglected my website for far too long, and keep meaning to update it with some additional approaches that I think complement connectors well. If I can get over my awful laziness, I will try to update the website over the coming weeks. Thanks again for all contributing to making connectors useful to a wider audience.
Hi Anthony! So nice to see you here :)))
I was hoping to contact you when we had all the phrases translated, but it’s going a bit slow now. I was hoping you could upload them to Anki, just like you did with the czech connectors, to share them with everyone.
You should indeed update your website, it’s wonderful, just like your videos. ;)))
I’ve started with Russian and will probably continue…
that’s great eugrus, thank you!
Delete the Yiddish column. I’ve had to quit this language because of it no longer working and don’t want to have anything to do with it any more.
lmyir we could leave it, maybe some other jew would like to fill it up. 
You’re not studying Yiddish anymore then?
I’ve imported hundreds of lessons into LingQ and now nothing works. It’s a bit of a motivation killer. I’ve sent a message to Steve, about a possible collaboration with a group which deal with Yiddish extensively, but he’s not replied to me. Since the language will never be worked on here, it’s a pointless exercise.
I feel like part of me has died…again. I lost this language once before…
sorry to hear that ;(
Sorry that I have not yet replied to your comment, Imyirtseshem. However, we try to spend as little time as possible on the Beta or unsupported languages, and therefore would be even less inclined to get involved in a language that is not even a Beta language.
If we have learned one thing it is the following. Nothing is simple. Nothing is as simple as it seems. Everything we do creates problems which have to be resolved once we start. If Yiddish is selected by our members as a language for LingQ we may have to look at, but not until then. And even then… as was the case with Hindi, if it does not easily work with the LingQ system we will probably back off.
Very sorry but that is our reality. I hope you can find a work around for Yiddish and I wish you continued success in the other languages and appreciate your enthusiastic participation on our forum.
You’re sorry you didn’t reply to my comment? You simply didn’t bother replying. You could have at least said something instead of ignoring it completely.
Again, I understand the situation. This is why I tried to come up with something else. I spoke about that in the message which I sent you on the wall and you avoided it 100%.
The fact that you didn’t even try to engage with me on what I said, is what’s annoying.
What are your problems with Yiddish at LingQ? The script, or newly introduced features?
The script worked fine. Things broke with the new updates.
But, I’m being politely told to shut up. So, I’m going to have to do so. If I could get LWT to work, I’d be using it already.
Imyirtseshem,
On Jan 7 I received the following message on my wall. This message seems to have disappeared now, however.
" Hey Steve. You’ve certainly seen the troubles I’ve had with getting
Yiddish to work (again) here. I’ve got an idea which you might be
interested in. The Yiddish Book Center does a number of good projects
and is looking at expanding into other areas. Perhaps there could be
some deal done between Lingq and them? They might even be able to
provide a coder to work specifically on the language, can promote it
for use for learning it, etc. The language is just starting to
experience a new renaissance, so perhaps this could be a model
language for working with groups who specialise in particular
languages. Just an idea, what do you think?"
We have a lot of issues to deal with for those languages that we support. Yiddish is far down the list of languages that people are interested in for LingQ, so we have no interest in pursuing this as I said on this thread. I was thinking about how to answer your request. I am sorry if I did not get back to you soon enough to avoid you getting annoyed. Since no one is under any obligation to answer you immediately I suggest you learn not to be so easily annoyed.
Of course it’s low priority here now, but it’s not low priority there. I fact, it’s their main priority. These guys are a rather big organisation and are only growing. They are active in teaching the language and I think they would be very interested in your ideas on language learning as they seem to be using the same old techniques. They would be interested in the LingQ system. It’s a potential client base.
I know that the programmers only have so much time and need to work on the most needed parts of the site. I totally agree with this approach. What I’m trying to say is that perhaps there could be a teaming up with Lingq and the YBC. This is perhaps a good model for other languages too. They could also make sure that Hebrew works well too. (which has a higher interest)
Ideally, they could get the language working, at no cost. They could become providers of material, provide tutors, etc. It’s a possible win for both sides here.
I’m just trying to come up with ideas. If you would even think about it - think of the potential benefits for LingQ. LingQ would do so much better if it wasn’t trying to be an island and instead worked with some other groups. Just entertain the idea for a second before giving me the same old ‘we don’t have the ability to deal with what we have’. I know, that’s why I’m trying to be creative. If it was your favourite language in the world, you’d be trying to come up with something too…
(I’m not saying this should be done now, I’m just saying that this is a potential route for the future.)
If you can approach them, and if they genuinely want to work with us and can guarantee a user base, in that case we would be interested. Short of that it would be a distraction from what we are doing, Sholem Aleichem notwithstanding.
You guys have got to keep moving in the direction you’re headed in. I appreciate that. This could be a good precedent. Perhaps there could be an organisation which works with Hindi which could do the same thing there. Other languages too.
I’ll get into contact with them about this and give them some ideas about your site. I’m sure that I can summarise the ideas of LingQ well enough for them to understand how it works (with some links to some of your youtube videos and such, also.)
I’ll get to work on it Steve, and see what I can do.
Returning to the conversational connectors, I noticed that the Italian list is quite sparse. Any native Italians want to take a run at filling this out?
I don’t suppose the next lessons to come from IDEL will include some of these connectors eh?
odiernod yes, we plan to make a collection with the connectors, would you like that?
saludos
IDEL
Learning Spanish at Lingq → http://spanish-lingq.blogspot.com/
IDEL, yep, I sure would