I think we should add Piedmontese language (Piemontèis/lenga piemontèisa) to the language menu. Piemontèis, although not recognized as official by the italian government, is an actual language still spoken by a lot of people in the Piedmont region in northwestern Italy. It has a grammar and vocabulary of its own with substantial differences with the italian ones.

Please add Piemontèis language and I'll contribute with many sentences and translations directly from native speakers.

Thank you

I want to contribute to adding English to Tamil translation.

But I do not see Tamil language in the menu option. Tamil is official in at least 3 countries - India, Singapore and Sri Lanka and unofficial minor language in several countries including Malaysia, Mauritious, South Africa etc.

It would be very useful several Tamil-speaker if Tamil can be included in the options.


Thank you,
Rajesh

Is there any statistics available about the number of connections between languages? Something simple, like the sentences statistics:
http://tatoeba.org/eng/stats/sentences_by_language
but counting not only number of sentences, but also the number of the direct translations/links from this language to others?

Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, völlig voneinander getrennte Sätze zu verknüpfen?

Is there any way to download the audio files as a set? I can't see a link from the Download page. If not, is there any objection to scraping the audio from the website using a tool? If that's OK, is there a speed I should limit myself to? I don't want to hammer the server.

Translation of tatoeba itself...

I was wondering if the Tatoeba interface in different languages is still being updated through launchpad. I believe I have very good reasons to ask:

In the case of Turkish;

- With all respect to previous contributors to translation efforts; there are basic phrases which I assume were misunderstood and thus inappropriately translated.
A very simple example would be the "from" and "to" words above the combo boxes in search area. Most probably a lack of context led the translator to interpret those words as if they refer to people (like in an email).

- Some parts are still not translated.

So my point is, I made a few addition/alteration on launchpad just to check if it is still valid, but it doesn't seem to be. Thank you.

Pensais que es demasiado pronto para ser administrador del corpus?
Estoy repasando banderas erroneas y etiquetas y veo que me falta permisos para trabajar bien. Además estoy dando algo de trabajo extra a los admin que me quieren ayudar.
Seria mas facil para mi y los demas tener permisos extra.

May is too soon for be a corpus adminstrator?
I m working with many tags and flag and there are things that I cannot do. Then I have to disturb other adminstrators.

What you think?

hello everybody. i am new and i am too excited

Licensing question.

Having just read a thread from a month ago, I just realized that it is possible I am in violation of the Tatoeba license, unwittingly. I am the author of a free software (GPL) language study tool which uses the Tatoeba corpus for example sentences. I give credit to the Tatoeba project in the COPYING section of the code.

However, based on reading a thread from a month ago, it is clear that some users would like *personal* recognition for their work. I'm quite happy to oblige, but I have no idea how these users want recognition.

Is it sufficient to put the sentence owner's user name next to the sentence when it is displayed? Note: This is not a web app so making a url to the sentence would be unhelpful.

This really needs to be made a lot more obvious and explicit. Since individual sentences are likely not able to be copyrighted, I had assumed that the copyright was on the corpus as collection. However, people who make large contributions are probably entitled to make copyright claims, so this is potentially a major problem.

I have a request: Please make the license explicit with respect to how recognition should be given to contributors, especially given the fact that users are pseudonymous. Without this information, it really does make the data useless.

I'd love to write a long rant what a difficult subject licensing is, especially when you consider the subtle differences in copyright law from country to country. Things that seem perfectly obvious from one perspective is far from obvious from another perspective. But I'll save the rant for another day...

Hello tatoeba community. This project is a great tool for multiple purposes, unquestionably the most common of which being a reliable source for those in need of example sentences for their foreign language studies.
I'm not very much familiar with the project and how things go on, but as my short experience has revealed there are a few points that needs to be made clear. You can consider it partially a suggestion or a question.

Like any other use I guess, I use the search area above to find some sentences which are related to my keywords. Those keywords are sometimes (for some languages) very very tricky. Let's say I search for a verb to find sentences that contains this verb. Yet in the search results there are a lot more than that: some nouns which look like this verb but have nothing to do with it, another verb which looks like my verb when conjugated for a speacial tense, person etc.

At this point, the question is: is it really a good idea to keep a sentence as a simple text in the database? Wouldn't it be better if we create a metadata (more developed than tags) for each sentence. By doing so we can use this database more efficiently and define the relations between languages more clearly. It will also help us to maintain more developed search facilities.

Just to be more clear I'm giving a very simple example. When I add a sentence in German:
"Meine Geschichte ist zu grotesk, um eine Lüge zu sein."
I should add an extra information about the verb for instance: The verb is "ist" and the infinitive form is "sein"
So when a user wants to see a sentence which contains the verb "sein", s/he can find it. Otherwise s/he will search for "sein" and many other irrelevant sentences will come up, like:
"Ich liebe seine Schwester" As one can see; this "sein-e" is not what we are looking for.

Long story short, the badly organized example of mine above is just a little demonstration of how metadata added sentence storage will help users find what they are looking for.
I'm not quite sure if this is the right place for such a suggestion/question, but here it is.