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PinkVerifiedPlanet Earth443 forum posts1505/0
6 year(s) ago
I know I was initially against it, but I changed my mind and we decided we will be offering Beltchecker in multiple languages. If we are to grow into a true, world wide BJJ practitioner database, I realize this is more important than my OCD's desire for everything to look the same. We will make separate forums for each language.

If you want to help with the translation, reply here with your email address and native language. We will then send you an invite to the translation interface where multiple people can work on the same language simultaneously.

The more the better!
Edited 6 year(s) ago
Jorgen Matsi
Jorgen Matsi
Black belt 2nd degreeVerified1809 forum posts18235/1000
6 year(s) ago
Would you actually want as many languages as possible? I mean how many additional people would Danish / Icelandic / Estonian bring in?

I can see the point for French, Portuguese, maybe Russian and Chinese and Japanese first?
Benoît Bérard
Benoît Bérard
Black belt 1st degreeVerified26 forum posts2865/1000
6 year(s) ago
I think it’s a good idea to offer the opportunity for people who are not comfortable in English to have Beltchecker.com in other languages.
I’m on my way to help for the French translations. Hope there will be other contributors for this language !
Christian Graugart
Christian Graugart
Black belt 4th degreeVerified4349 forum posts40905/1000
6 year(s) ago
Would you actually want as many languages as possible? I mean how many additional people would Danish / Icelandic / Estonian bring in? I can see the point for French, Portuguese, maybe Russian and Chinese and Japanese first?
Yeah well pretty much whatever people wanna help translate, we’ll take it. I agree Danish, Estonian etc is not really as relevant as, let’s imagine, Italian :D
Joel Matson
Joel Matson
Black beltVerified108 forum posts3935/1000
6 year(s) ago
It may be a challenge moderating the "be nice" rule in this myriad of new languages. Someone should definitely study up on their Italian insults at the very least...;)
Christian Graugart
Christian Graugart
Black belt 4th degreeVerified4349 forum posts40905/1000
6 year(s) ago
It may be a challenge moderating the 'be nice' rule in this myriad of new languages. Someone should definitely study up on their Italian insults at the very least...;)
Yeah we’ll find moderators for each language forum of course
Slideyfoot [jun]
Slideyfoot [jun]
Black belt 1st degreeVerified1901 forum posts3830/1000
6 year(s) ago
Yeah we’ll find moderators for each language forum of course
How would we get access to the language forums, once they're up and running? I'd love the chance to practice my German and Spanish. :)
Jorgen Matsi
Jorgen Matsi
Black belt 2nd degreeVerified1809 forum posts18235/1000
6 year(s) ago
Oh well. I guess I can start with Estonian but God knows if it's gonna rest on my shoulders only it's gonna take some sweet time.
Christian Graugart
Christian Graugart
Black belt 4th degreeVerified4349 forum posts40905/1000
6 year(s) ago
There are 1291 words or sentences to translate?
1312 to be precise! So it will make a huge difference if we have a handful of translators for each language :)
Gerald Fabrot
Gerald Fabrot
Black beltVerified149 forum posts1765/1000
6 year(s) ago
I know I was initially against it, but I changed my mind and we decided we will be offering Beltchecker in multiple languages. If we are to grow into a true, world wide BJJ practitioner database, I realize this is more important than my OCD's desire for everything to look the same. We will make separate forums for each language. If you want to help with the translation, reply here with your email address and native language. We will then send you an invite to the translation interface where multiple people can work on the same language simultaneously. The more the better!

Japanese.
[email protected]

Not technically my native language, but I've been here 23 years and read/write/speak fluently, and it might be difficult to get a Japanese native to bootstrap as they don't seem very numerous on this forum yet ^^

I saw two :
@Keisuke Mafune
@Yuji Goto

Step 1 : Translate to Japanese
Step 2 : Start onboarding more Japanese gyms

1312 strings... that's quite a few



Christian Graugart
Christian Graugart
Black belt 4th degreeVerified4349 forum posts40905/1000
6 year(s) ago
1312 strings... that's quite a few
Yeah we take it in small bites and try to get a handful of people on each language. I’m doing Danish alone and just spend five minutes a day on it, then eventually I’ll get through it. At around 30% now :)
Johan Eggink
Johan Eggink
White beltVerified84 forum posts300/0
6 year(s) ago
Yeah we take it in small bites and try to get a handful of people on each language. I’m doing Danish alone and just spend five minutes a day on it, then eventually I’ll get through it. At around 30% now :)
When will you share the strings? I don't mind following the same approach for Dutch. I can split the list with Jan Hochepied.
I will do the first 656 items and he can start with the second half. Then we can check each others work afterwards.
Christian Graugart
Christian Graugart
Black belt 4th degreeVerified4349 forum posts40905/1000
6 year(s) ago
When will you share the strings? I don't mind following the same approach for Dutch. I can split the list with Jan Hochepied. I will do the first 656 items and he can start with the second half. Then we can check each others work afterwards.
Did you not yet get an invitation email?
Christian Graugart
Christian Graugart
Black belt 4th degreeVerified4349 forum posts40905/1000
6 year(s) ago
For everyone translating, please note this absolute stupidity in the interface!! For those translations with two lines like this, you have to translate the little, lower one. Looks like every single one of us misunderstood that :D
Yann Brelivet
Yann Brelivet
Blue beltVerified10 forum posts1445/200
6 year(s) ago
It's going well, but it takes time. When is it supposed to be finished? Otherwise sometimes the context of the sentence is missing (or it's in parts of the site where I don't go).

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