Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?".
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| This should be a very specific kind of courses | Jun 15 |
I can think of one type of language courses that would be uniquely useful to ProZ users: not the general-purpose ones, but rather ones geared towards professional linguists. They should be much faster-paced than regular courses, use the linguistic concepts already familiar to us, and rely upon our knowledge of several other languages. If this thing ever materialises, my vote is for Japanese.
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If organized and adapted to my time constraints...
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Susanna Martoni 
Italy
Local time: 05:24
Member (2009)
Spanish to Italian
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Also for me, if organized and adapted to my schedules.
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Surely everyone should learn Danish so they can work for those boutique agencies?
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Natasha Cloutier
Netherlands
Local time: 05:24
Member (2023)
Dutch to English
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| Which type of English, French, Norwegian, etc.? | Jun 16 |
Nobody teaches every type of English, French, Norwegian, etc. The question could be a lot more specific...
[Edited at 2024-06-16 11:51 GMT]
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 05:24
Member (2009)
English to German
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The language that interests me the most.
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Nicholas Boline
United States
Local time: 22:24
Member (2023)
Spanish to English
| Why these languages? | Jun 16 |
Are they hoping to drive engagement by selecting almost none of the most spoken languages as options? I guess it worked...
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It is a fascinating language in my opinion. I took two classes in the past, but I only remember a few words at this point
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| I don't believe in courses | Jun 18 |
It takes years to master a language at a level that will give you enough confidence to decorate your CV with a check mark saying you can translate from that language. On the other hand, I can use two or three modern MT engines packed in just one app to translate from languages I don't technically know, or to meaningfully improve existing translations produced by people who claimed to be skilled translators from the language(s) in question, whether it's German, French, Hungarian, or Turkish (the ... See more It takes years to master a language at a level that will give you enough confidence to decorate your CV with a check mark saying you can translate from that language. On the other hand, I can use two or three modern MT engines packed in just one app to translate from languages I don't technically know, or to meaningfully improve existing translations produced by people who claimed to be skilled translators from the language(s) in question, whether it's German, French, Hungarian, or Turkish (the latter two being the most obscure to me because they're neither Germanic nor Romance). Should I take advantage of this fact by putting said check marks against said languages (plus Swedish, Indonesian, Chinese, Finnish, and Italian, i. e. the entire list of languages I used to translate from at least once) in my CV? I don't think so ▲ Collapse
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 04:24
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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I don't like distance learning.
I've taken Arabic lessons online, but there's nothing like face-to-face lessons.
Right now, I don't think I'd want to learn another language either, I'd rather improve my working languages instead, including my native language, because I don't know everything in European Portuguese.
It's a difficult language variant and was once more beautiful than it is today, I think.
My written and spoken 'portuense' nobody can take away...
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There are loads of free and paid-for language courses out there. Why would I come to ProZ for this?
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Barbara Carrara
Italy
Local time: 05:24
Member (2008)
English to Italian
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Rachel Waddington wrote:
There are loads of free and paid-for language courses out there. Why would I come to ProZ for this?
I agree, especially when there are members and non-members on ProZ who already appear to have no problem translating from and into ANY languages known to (wo)man... A browse through the KudoZ pages will confirm this. As will the frankly ludicrous 'KudoZ leaders' space.
With all the issues ProZ are having, some of which still unsolved*, I wonder how they could even hope to get that up and running. And working with no glitches.
As to the 'paid or unpaid' bit of the OP, running multiple language courses for free wouldn't make much sense business-wise. Unless they have something up their sleeve, like a series of AI-run language courses, for instance...
* This, while launching endless 'innovations', like the blue font now replacing the red one, and which is now veering towards illegibility, at least for my poor eyes.
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| Something challenging | Jun 18 |
Anton Konashenok wrote:
I can think of one type of language courses that would be uniquely useful to ProZ users: not the general-purpose ones, but rather ones geared towards professional linguists. They should be much faster-paced than regular courses, use the linguistic concepts already familiar to us, and rely upon our knowledge of several other languages.
This. I honestly find most online language courses way too sluggish and repetitive. Challenge me!
As for which language... Uh... Korean, I guess. From the little dabbling I've done in it, it's the logical pivot from Japanese.
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