Any update on the status of the Japanese mini stories?
Unfortunately I lost touch with our Japanese volunteers, it seems that they weren’t able to deliver stories. I’ll do my best to find new volunteers and get Japanese done too.
Hi Zoran, Thank you! These would certainly be an incredible learning resource. If you don’t mind me asking, where can I find the texts that you provide to the volunteers and what are the guidelines for the translations and recording?
We just decided to hire someone to complete Japanese stories, so we should make some progress there within next month or so.
To get English version of stories and guidelines, you can contact me on zoran(at)lingq.com
I just looked at the looked the list of languages that have mini stories. It is great that the project seems to be moving along. I was wandering what is the situation with Danish. Since there is so far only 5 of them for quite some while I assume there are not going to be new Danish mini stories in the near future.
There seems to be other languages as well that does not seem to attract voluntiers. Will you eventually hire translators for these language to complete the mini stories project.
I haven’t used the mini stories yet that much, I probably would have if there where more Danish stories as it is a language that for personal reasons I am going to focus on for the next months or so. I haven’t really fully appreciatied there value untill now since I have been so focused on the languages that in I have an mid-intermediate knowledge.
I think these mini stories will be great once I start to delve deeper into Italian/Dutch or some more exotic language. Congratilations on the work done so far and best of luck in the future.
@swedishfinngermanophile You are right, we are a bit behind with Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian too, but I’ll make sure that we have all 60 stories completed in all languages. For some languages we will need more time, but we are making great progress so far and definitely all languages will be done.
That’s great news 
I’m working on stories 1-10 for Thai and Swahili. I finished getting an ~8 minute course recorded (the 10 lesson “Getting Started”) for each of Thai, Swahili, and Bulgarian.
Long road ahead for Swahili… But maybe there’s some good work done or being done for the other two.
I’m excited for this new series. I’m learning Norwegian, which is a lesser studied language, but I hope there’s a volunteer eventually who can assist with getting content up for this series since it sounds immensely useful.
Is Zoran on vacation?
There are 25 Belarusian lessons awaining to be uploaded to the site. The last upload was done in the end of March.
With these lessons and with already translated course “Who Is She” Belarusian would become a fully supported lessons.
The only problem I have found is an absent flag (see the flags in my profile). Some recent beta languages do not have small flags, too.
Hey Ress, no worries I am not on Vacation. I’ll get to Belarusian and upload all Mini Stories and Who is She before Monday.
I was uploading Korean and Chinese stories this week, Belarusian, Polish and Turkish are next in line.
I think there are some issues with the new level 2 stories. There doesn’t seem to be any spaces between the words. Entire sentences are written as a single word.
Can you please tell us which language(s) where you experience this.
Sorry, yes, in the Korean Level 2 stories which Zoran just added this week.
I checked it out and have the same problem in the level 2. Note also that 21-25 and 41-45 are missing. I have alerted Zoran in case he didn’t see the post here. We should get it fixed soon. Meanwhile I hope you enjoy the stories. I do. I am looking forward to brushing up my Korean with these stories.
Thanks. I have been through the level 1 stories and they were excellent. Really excited to go through levels 2 and 3 soon.
Hi, is there any update in how Thai is coming along? Thanks.
Well, I have recorded Thai stories 1-20 and just need to put it all together and email it to zoran… same with Swahili 1-20.
Great, is 20 stories enough to meet the requirements to become a beta language?
I’m eager to add LingQ to my study schedule.
@ApNam, It’s not my call but I am doubtful… It’s about 80 minutes, considerably longer than Who Is She, but Who Is She has a little greater range of difficulty I think. Other than these 20 mini stories and another ~8 minute course I provided, my understanding is that no one else has turned anything in for Thai, which is a bit of a different situation from what I was expecting at this point.
I have now handed in the Swahili mini stories, so I am making progress…