Would you like to add Irish to Duolingo?

Vote here: https://www.surveyplanet.com/survey/...2d3a76507a137a


It's discussed here, and we get a mention too in the comments: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/1746430

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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When I clicked the first link, I received this message:

"Survey Not Available
Sorry, the survey you're looking for doesn't exist or has been deactivated."

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Oh sorry,
it was working last night, I got my vote through.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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I just joined this forum but I wish I joined yesterday and could have voted... Duolingo is great and I've been hoping for an Irish course for months now.

Irish won the survey !

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... &usp#gid=0

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Interesting -- I wasn't aware of the scheme at all.

I was involved in a translation effort of the LiveMocha course to Scottish Gaelic, and it was a complete mess. Vocabulary was inconsistent from sentence to sentence, and each sentence was voted on individually. The sentences you were asked to vote on was done at random, and there was almost an emergence of two "half" courses in different dialects.

I'm curious as to how their translation works, so I've signed up for one of the language pairs they're already working on (but as neither of them is English, I'm probably going to get turned down anyway).

(On a side note, I'm curious as to whether any of this sort of site will get done for using unpaid labour -- it is completely illegal for a for-profit company to get free labour. But even Facebook has gotten away with having volunteers translate it into huge international languages like Spanish....)

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A language belongs to its native speakers, and when you speak it, you are a guest in their homes.
If you are not a good guest, you have no right to complain about receiving poor hospitality.

Iontach! It probably helped that the survey coincided with Seachtain Na Gaeilge - more people Googling Irish.

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I did some work on the Irish section of LiveMocha too. It's just as bad as the Gaelic section. I contacted them about some of the mistakes and they ignored me. And I also didn't fancy doing a lot free work for a for-profit company. So I left them to it.

I use Duolingo myself to re-learn all the French I've forgotten since school.

RhinoSpike is a little known website that has volunteers pronouncing and transcribing for fellow volunteers in different languages. You can have a short sentence or a whole essay. I do stuff on the Irish section, and occasionally the English section too.
It's handy as unlike Forvo sentences are allowed.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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The other problem with LiveMocha was that even once we had all the material for the first module done, it was never published. Everything needed to be OKed by a sufficient number of people, and there was barely enough people involved to do so, so if there was a disagreement, we were stuffed. Translating module 3 when there was no guarantee that even module 1 would be published... well, who would do that? So it all fizzled out.

On the topic of other sites, I think I've mentioned Tatoeba.org before. It's a Computer Scientist's approach to language, making a structure of links between sentences in various languages. It's quite a clever idea, but as always it requires a pinch of salt. People there are who are thinking their English she is better than what she is, and all that...

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A language belongs to its native speakers, and when you speak it, you are a guest in their homes.
If you are not a good guest, you have no right to complain about receiving poor hospitality.

I joined Tatoeba !
It will take me a while to learn how it works. It doesn't look like you can vote for a particular translation.
Are you "learnaspossible" Niall?

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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