Showing posts with label Polish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polish. Show all posts

Not your typical copyright-free multilingual dictionary

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Archive.org is one of my favourite places to perform a random search to see what turns up, and I've frequently posted on some of their good multilingual dictionaries and phrase books, usually in the major languages of the time: English, French, all the way to Russian and sometimes Dutch or Swedish or what have you. Today's find is a multilingual dictionary containing much rarer languages.

Any guesses? There are seven of them in total. Hint: they're all European.




Ready?



The languages are:


German,
Polish,
Russian,
Belarusian,
Lithuanian,
Latvian,
Yiddish.

No English. Here's the dictionary.

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One more multilingual news site: Presseurop

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Or rather not just multilingual, but matching. Euronews and Setimes are two others I've mentioned before, and here is another one called Presseurop. That link goes to a Portuguese article on the lack of translators/interpreters in Brussels, and on the top right one can see cs, de, en, es, fr, it, nl, pl, pt, and ro. Clicking on that will take you to the respective article about the same subject.

Not only that, but they seem to be written in the same way, phrase by phrase. For example if we look at the same sentence in the five Romance languages available:

Desde que o ensino de línguas estrangeiras deixou de ser obrigatório no Reino Unido [em 2002], o interesse por outras línguas esmoreceu.

Desde que la enseñanza obligatoria de lenguas extranjeras fue abandonada en el Reino Unido [en 2002], el interés por otros idiomas disminuye.

Da quando nel Regno Unito è stato abbandonato l’insegnamento obbligatorio delle lingue straniere [nel 2002], l’interesse per le lingue è sempre più scarso.

Depuis que l’enseignement obligatoire des langues étrangères a été abandonné au Royaume-Uni [en 2002], l’intérêt pour d’autres langues faiblit.

După ce studiul obligatoriu al limbilor străine a fost abandonat în Marea Britanie [în 2002], interesul pentru alte limbi a scăzut.
The rest of the article is written in the same way.

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Asteroid 2002 AM31 now on Wikipedia

Monday, July 23, 2012

...so far just in Polish and Macedonian. The flyby which is happening right now (closest approach in one hour) should lead to articles in other languages, but that isn't always the case.

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German minority in Poland plans German (and minimum 30% Polish) radio

Friday, December 09, 2011

Read about it here in German, automatically translated here.

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Article on Lithuanian spelling of Polish names in Lithuania results in a surprisingly large number of comments

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

An article here from the Economist last week on a court case in Lithuania regarding spelling Polish names there has ignited a bit of a firestorm of debate in the comments section below. The issue is whether Polish Lithuanians can spell their names using Polish orthography or not, and the court has ruled that they have to use Lithuanian norms.

Lithuanian and Latvian are a bit unusual here though, as declination cannot be properly done without a Lithuanian or Latvian ending. Without that you don't know whether the genitive is -o or -os or -ės or anything else, so both these countries have more of a practical reason for insisting that names are converted to their norms. A good rule of thumb is to look at their Wikipedia and see how proper names are treated there. Pages like Baraks Obama and Als Gors show that you can't just leave proper names as spelled in their original languages.

Such debates are an inevitable result of closeness between two countries: not only historical ties, but the fact that both countries use the Latin alphabet. Move all the way over to the US or Canada and diacritics simply get thrown out the window because nobody uses them in English and wouldn't know how to input them even if they wanted to. Nobody gets diacritics there, end of story. Well, maybe á ó é í ú ñ à ç etc. (Spanish and French) from time to time, certainly not å ø æ and the rest.

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La Dow Jones ia gania 18.82% en la anio 2009, e protestas en Iran

Friday, January 01, 2010

Un proba peti de scrive en LFN sur la sujeto economial (de esta article en franses), ma como on dise stock market (bourse) en LFN? Borsa? Me ia es surprendeda vidente ce la disionario no ave un parola tan simple. Edita: el pare ce la parola per stock market es asioneria.

La borsa* de New York ia fini la anio sur un perde a jovedi, an cuando la plu de investores ia clui se contas, sin un efeto grande per la rebondi neta mostrada en 2009: la Dow Jones ia perde 1.19% durante la dia, ma ia gania 18.82% tra la anio.

La Dow Jones Industrial Average ia abandona 120.46 puntos per fini a 10 428.05 puntos.

La gania en 2009 es la gania anial la plu forte de pos 2003.
Un otra sujeto: me ia vide oji ce la paje sur la protestas en Iran en la Wikipedia en polsce es un paje elejeda (un paje ce pote apare en la paje prima), e es tre detalios. En fato, la istoria de Polsca es un inspira per persones en Iran e me ave un libro traduida en parsi sur la luta en Polsca per democratia, con la titulo Polsca: la potia de unia (Poland: the power of solidarity o لهستان: قدرت همبستگی).

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May 2009 - Three new Wikipedia milestones: German, Polish and Chinese

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Over at the list of Wikipedias you can see that three major languages have just reached or are just about to reach a few milestones. They are:

  • German, which is at 899,451 articles and so should reach 900,000 in about a day or so
  • Polish, which has reached 600,000
  • Chinese, which has reached 250,000 articles as well as 10 million edits, the latter of which is usually more telling when determining the quality of a Wikipedia anyway.
It's a pity though the major Wikipedias are too cool to use special designs to celebrate the milestone, that I could show here.

Fine, then I'll just have to make my own, garish and pink. Polish Wikipedia users: get a better design than this and I'll fix it for you. Until then you're pink.

As always, the French and German Wikipedias are separated by almost exactly 100,000 articles. It's been that way for at least a few years, even back when German was just a tad over 400,000 and French 100,000 behind that.

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Learn a "rare" language - University of Nantes launches language courses in Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, and Vietnamese

Monday, March 23, 2009

L'université de Nantes participe avec l'École centrale de Nantes, les universités d'Angers et du Mans au "Pôle de Recherche et d'Enseignement Supérieure", baptisé depuis le 1er janvier 2009, "UNAM" (Universités de Nantes, d'Angers, Le Mans) et dont le siège est situé à Nantes. L'objectif de l'"UNAM" est de faire émerger un pôle d'excellence, attractif et visible dans la compétition internationale.


I'm not sure whether Turkish or Vietnamese could be called "rare", but nevertheless:

Nous avons constaté un manque de préparation linguistique et culturelle de certains de nos étudiants en mobilité internationale, en particulier vers des pays aux langues Moins Dites et Moins Enseignées.
We've found a lack of linguistic and cultural preparation in some of our students in international mobility, in particular towards countries with languages less spoken and less studied.
Les étudiants arrivaient dans le pays sans connaître les bases de la langue ni de la culture, lié notamment au fait que certaines universités étrangères offrent des cours en anglais (ex. la Finlande). Afin de faciliter l'intégration des étudiants dans un nouveau cadre culturel et universitaire et atténuer le « choc culturel », l'Université a mis en place des modules d'initiation à six langues et cultures, ouverts gratuitement à l'ensemble des étudiants de l'Université sur le second semestre de l'année universitaire.
Students arrive in the country without knowing the base of the language or the culture, especially with certain foreign universities that offer courses in English (Finland for example). To facilitate the integration of the students in a new cultural and universitary frame and decrease culture shock, the University has established introductory modules to six languages and cultures, free for the students of the University in the second semester of the university year.

To see the entire page automatically translated into English, click here.

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