These exercises require a 'hint phrase' that is given to the student in their native language so they know what the image is supposed to represent. The localization section, where user interface strings are translated into the language the course teaches from (in this example, Spanish).Īnother view of the localization section, this time showing strings that contain variables (parts of the string that will be automatically filled in later).ĭuolingo sometimes presents exercises that involve images. Localization In addition to creating the language lessons, some courses may require contributors to translate the Duolingo user interface to the language its users will learn from. For example, if a translation of a sentence in the Incubator is specified as ' went to the park' then both 'He went to the park' and 'She went to the park' will be accepted as answers.Ī dialog for editing the dictionary 'hints' for a word, which are shown when the word is hovered over in a lesson. Translation The Incubator uses a special notation to specify multiple possible translations of a sentence using just one string. The main page of the course editor, showing the skill ' tree' and course contributor statistics. The overview page for a phase 1 course, showing basic information about its progress.

How does the Incubator actually work? Course progress In stage one: translating all interface strings, completing all word images, and completing all words, i.e., translating at least three sentences for each word. English for Persian speakers), so you don't need to apply separately for each direction. Persian for English speakers) will also automatically add you to the pool of applicants for the course in the opposite direction (i.e. Note that applying for a course in one direction (e.g. If the language you would like to teach or teach from is not listed in the 'choose language' menu, select the 'Enter Other' option and type in the name of the language. Be sure to mention all relevant skills and background experience you have and convey your passion and commitment to language learning and the course creation process. Simply fill out and submit the contributor application. In addition to these official minimum, having certain additional qualifications such as a background in language education or computer science may help. Commitment to devote several hours per week to working on the course.Fluency in both the language being taught and the language it is being taught from.As of 18 April 2019, these qualifications are: The qualifications for course contributors are laid out on the contributor application form.

3 How does the Incubator actually work?.I'd suggest adding croatian is the best choice as it's the second biggest of the variants and it uses a latin script. But come on now, this family it's the fourth biggest slavic language and there are no south slavic languages added yet. If one of the languages gets added to Duolingo, the other speakers of the other languages will get mad. There are four languages in the balkans (serbian, croatian, bosnian and montenegrin) that are closer than the nordic languages but the speakers of each language all insist it's seperate languages. It's serbian, or serbo-croation depending on the way you see it. But what about the fourth biggest language? Well it's complicated. But what about slavic languages? Well turns out not a lot of them exist, except for the three biggest plus fifth biggest ones, russian, polish, ukrainian and czech.

There are so many germanic and romance languages on Duolingo, like german, dutch, norwegian, portuguese, even romanian! These language branchs seem to be the dominating in terms of IE (indo-european) languages.

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