: First file Vocabulary Trainer for Parley uploaded

[Sabine Emmy Eller-2]

Hi, I just uploaded the first file of a set of Vocabulary trainers here:

http://kde-files.org/content/show.php?content=112970
English-Ukrainian

I hope I got everything right.

At first we started to work from an existing list, but soon we noted that there were too many issues. Therefore we started from scratch avoiding problems as much as possible. Therefore for now there is also no categorisation and the terms are not classified as nouns/verbs etc. This will come in future versions.

The translations were mainly made during a translation marathon during Agis09 (http://agis09.org). We were traslating in Limerick and in 4 other countries. In the end just a hand ful of pepole that really made a lot of stuff.

Right now we found some more people helping to get French and Italian as well as some other languages on the way.

We as Vox Humanitatis decided to go for the KDE Educational project for various reasons and we hope that over time a good co-operation and even a partnership with KDE-Educational will result out of this. One very positive point is that the software can also be installed on Windows. In fact Outi Sané who cares about North European and some African languages uses it on Windows.

We believe that our growing team of involved over time will find it fun to see the projects grow. It's like so often: one drop at a time we create a river and many rivers flow into an ocean.

We are now looking into integrating Hang-Man and some question/answer eduationals like "What is the capital of Italy?" requiring the answer "Rome" into our "to be translated" parts.

I am coyping this e-mail also to our translators list in order to have people know that we actually started to commit files. They will be delivered quite slowly I suppose, depending on other organisational work that needs doing.

Kind regards,

Sabine Emmy Eller
CCO - Vox Humanitatis
s.eller [at] voxhumanitatis.org
skype: sabinecretella



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[Lydia Pintscher-2]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 17:57, Sabine Emmy Eller <s.eller@...> wrote:

> Hi, I just uploaded the first file of a set of Vocabulary trainers here:
>
> http://kde-files.org/content/show.php?content=112970
> English-Ukrainian
>
> I hope I got everything right.
>
> At first we started to work from an existing list, but soon we noted that
> there were too many issues. Therefore we started from scratch avoiding
> problems as much as possible. Therefore for now there is also no
> categorisation and the terms are not classified as nouns/verbs etc. This
> will come in future versions.
>
> The translations were mainly made during a translation marathon during
> Agis09 (http://agis09.org). We were traslating in Limerick and in 4 other
> countries. In the end just a hand ful of pepole that really made a lot of
> stuff.
>
> Right now we found some more people helping to get French and Italian as
> well as some other languages on the way.
>
> We as Vox Humanitatis decided to go for the KDE Educational project for
> various reasons and we hope that over time a good co-operation and even a
> partnership with KDE-Educational will result out of this. One very positive
> point is that the software can also be installed on Windows. In fact Outi
> Sané who cares about North European and some African languages uses it on
> Windows.
>
> We believe that our growing team of involved over time will find it fun to
> see the projects grow. It's like so often: one drop at a time we create a
> river and many rivers flow into an ocean.
>
> We are now looking into integrating Hang-Man and some question/answer
> eduationals like "What is the capital of Italy?" requiring the answer "Rome"
> into our "to be translated" parts.
>
> I am coyping this e-mail also to our translators list in order to have
> people know that we actually started to commit files. They will be delivered
> quite slowly I suppose, depending on other organisational work that needs
> doing.

Hi Sabine,

that is great news! What would you think about an article on
dot.kde.org to push this some more? Would you or someone else from
your team be up for an interview?

Promo peeps: Any takers? Would be awesome if one of you could prepare
a few questions for Sabine and write a short article for the dot.


Cheers
Lydia

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[Sabine Emmy Eller]

Hi Sabine,

that is great news! What would you think about an article on
dot.kde.org to push this some more? Would you or someone else from
your team be up for an interview?

Promo peeps: Any takers? Would be awesome if one of you could prepare
a few questions for Sabine and write a short article for the dot.


Cheers
Lydia

--

Dear Lydia,

the best suited people for an interview for now are Outi Sane and me each of us caring about different aspects.

Over time we hope we will find people who will care in groups about specific language combinations, especially when the data then is being maintained with Ambaradan where collaboration will become easier. For now the conversion is still being done manually - this time from a google spreadsheet to csv to kvtml format. I already asked for help on the smalltalk list if they can help with a script for the data conversion that I can then easily adapt without having always to ask a programmer. I went for smalltalk because this is needed also for Ambaradan, so like so often we try to get multiple results out of one work done.

For several languages like Udmurt and Veps the vocabulary trainer will be among the first language learning applications available. Outi can tell you more about these languages since she did the organisational part of it. Her e-mail address: outi.sane [at] voxhumanitatis [dot] org. She also reads our translators list, so she will see this message.

Here a first article of her that refers to Parley: http://www.voxhumanitatis.org/content/2009-09-27-project-finno-ugric-languages-has-started-very-well

And this is the project page: http://www.voxhumanitatis.org/content/new-language-packages-parley
It needs to be updated with the news of the last 3-5 days, but it can get you some basic view on what went on during the last two weeks :-)

Always considering less resourced languages: the translated wordlists can easily become the basis for spell checkers, dictionaries etc. For the mayor languages all this already exists, so for them it is really pure creation of "educational material" and starting points to then translate into less resourced languages.

Well yes, answering questions would be much easier.

Cheers,

Sabine

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[Frederik Gladhorn]

On Thursday 01 October 2009 18:36:29 Sabine Emmy Eller wrote:
> Hi Sabine,
>
> > that is great news! What would you think about an article on
> > dot.kde.org to push this some more? Would you or someone else from
> > your team be up for an interview?
> >
> > Promo peeps: Any takers? Would be awesome if one of you could prepare
> > a few questions for Sabine and write a short article for the dot.
> >

Hi, sounds great, let me know if I can answer any (Parley related) questions.
Thanks for getting this started :)

Greetings
Frederik



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