But that would imply that everyone uses Firefox (or has to) ^^

Also, since Tatoeba has a broader public than students in a classroom, it wouldn't necessarily be a good thing to drop the furigana. A lot of people would rather have something that is 80-90% accurate than not having anything at all, because it saves them time. And in the end, it's people's own responsibility to decide whether they want something perfect or not.

Generating furigana is not what slows down Tatoeba the most, you wouldn't see a difference in speed if we took it out, so it wouldn't justify that we take it out.

But as a teacher, you can (and actually *must*) educate your students not to rely on the furigana line, and use Rikaichan instead. It's not incompatible. I use it myself (and always did) whenever I want to figure out the reading of a Japanese sentence in Tatoeba, despite the fact that the reading is already displayed.

once the tags will be added, we will be able to do the following:
tags "unsuitable_for_children" etC. and maintain a list of tags which will be not accesible for non user/ user which has not active "unsafe search" option

oui
moi je suis très très petite

simply because we haven't found yet time to rewrite the hint page :P

In theory. However they are not really bugs in MeCab, but problems resulting from the dictionary used with MeCab. The dictionary used can both be selected (from a very short list ;-) and can be altered or aided by user-defined dictionaries.

So really what it needs is someone familiar with MeCab to find the best dictionary available and to add fixes for the problems noted.

However it probably is never going to be possible to be 100% accurate so to get the best results manual corrections will be needed at some point.

*furigana

Similar things happen in Portuguese

Esse é seu brinquedo.

can be

[Hey, you, ]
This is your toy.

[Bob likes to play.]
This is his toy.

[Mary likes to play.]
This is her toy.

[Tex the armadillo likes to play.]
This is its toy.

There are unambiguous ways to say these sentences in Portuguese, but they are not used that often.

There are probably more sentences in German that aren't translated into Japanese than you realize.

What you can do is ask Trang or Sysko to add a list
"ger->jpn translations needed"

They can filter the data to see exactly what sentences in German aren't linked to a sentence in Japanese.

Here are a few things...


1) If your partner has a good level in German, he/she can practice translating from Japanese into German, and you would be checking his/her sentences.

Note that you can view someone's sentences by going to their profile, then clicking on "See this user's contribution" (below the link to send a private message). Then on the user's contributions page, you go to "See all" next to "Latest sentences" (yea it's a bit complicated, but we'll be improve the profile someday). And you can select "German" to only keep German sentences.


2) Your partner can enter in Tatoeba Japanese sentences that he/she would like to know how to say in German, and you can try to translate his/her sentences. It would be good of course to search first if the sentence doesn't already exist.

Basically, you could be chatting together and, as the conversation goes, your partner could add Japanese sentences he/she can't figure out how to say in German. Your partner would then send you the link to the sentence once it's added, and you would translate right after that. This is pretty much what most tandems do anyway, when they chat together "How do you say...?" But instead of keeping that knowledge in your private chat logs, you can share it with the rest of the world :)

It would be a good idea to also make a list out of it, so that you can keep track of the various sentences you learned.
sysko had made such a list: http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences_lists/show/73/eng
It resulted from him and Dorenda chatting together in IRC.


3) You partner can practice translating from German to Japanese, while also contributing. Because as I said, most of the German sentences do not have a DIRECT translation in Japanese, but they do have an INDIRECT translation. So your partner could take on the task to link them.

But not just by reading and saying "okay, those translations match". I can create a deu->jpn list for him/her. She would then look at the German sentences from the list, and try to think of what the translation is. Then he/she can click on the sentence to view its details, and most of the time there should be an indirect Japanese translation. If that indirect translation matches what he/she thought of, they he/she can link the two sentences.

The only problem with this is that not everyone can link or unlink sentences yet. Only "trusted users" can (and even then, they can't link or unlink anything). The link/unlink feature requires you to understand very well the structure of Tatoeba, so it's not available to everyone because it's going to be confusing to new users more than it's going to be useful.
But I hope to make the link/unlink feature available to everyone through the concept I just explained.


So those are the ideas I have in mind. There are certainly more creative ones, but I'd have to think harder ^^

Please perform the following substitutions to make it usable for Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian:
« » (non-breaking space) to « » (space)
«—» (M-dash) to «-» (or «--»)
«–» (N-dash) to «-» (I don’t add these, but who knows?)
«, », „, “ (different quotes) to «"».
I prefer to add these when adding Russian sentences, but most people have no way to type them.

Perhaps «’» should be changed to «'», but I'm not sure. Some people have only the first, some only the second. (Microsoft didn't have this in their Ukr. layouts up to Vista, so some people even use * instead!) It whould be the best way to add this as an alternative in a JavaScript.

[not needed anymore- removed by CK]

Huh, I thought a word counted as '8 characters'. It looks like I've suddenly got much faster. :-P

That's a nice utilization!
It matches the speed I get at http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php pretty closely - shorter sentences go a fair bit faster, probably because I can memorize them before the timer starts.

Typing game is working again. Database server wasn't running after Ubuntu update.

I think you need to press on 'edit this list' for the remove buttons to appear...