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Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Something challenging

Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:09:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei
Post title: Something challenging

[quote]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.[/quote]

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.

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Agreed

Barbara Carrara — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Barbara Carrara
Post title: Agreed

[quote]Rachel Waddington wrote:

There are loads of free and paid-for language courses out there. Why would I come to ProZ for this? [/quote]

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.

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Why?

Rachel Waddington — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:46:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Rachel Waddington
Post title: Why?

There are loads of free and paid-for language courses out there. Why would I come to ProZ for this?

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Other

expressisverbis — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:13:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: expressisverbis
Post title: Other

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...

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | I don't believe in courses

Denis Fesik — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:47:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Denis Fesik
Post title: I don't believe in courses

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

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Arabic

Anne-Carine Zimmer — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:36:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Anne-Carine Zimmer
Post title: Arabic

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 :(

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Why these languages?

Nicholas Boline — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:19:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Nicholas Boline
Post title: Why these languages?

Are they hoping to drive engagement by selecting almost none of the most spoken languages as options? I guess it worked...

[Edited at 2024-06-16 17:20 GMT]

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Hawaiian

Thayenga — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:56:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Thayenga
Post title: Hawaiian

The language that interests me the most. ;)

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Which type of English, French, Norwegian, etc.?

Natasha Cloutier — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:51:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Natasha Cloutier
Post title: Which type of English, French, Norwegian, etc.?

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]

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | 🇩🇰

The Shredder — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:31:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: The Shredder
Post title: 🇩🇰

Surely everyone should learn Danish so they can work for those boutique agencies?

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Portuguese

Susanna Martoni — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 07:04:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Susanna Martoni
Post title: Portuguese

Also for me, if organized and adapted to my schedules.

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | Dutch

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:33:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Dutch

If organized and adapted to my time constraints...

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn? | This should be a very specific kind of courses

Anton Konashenok — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:23:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: Anton Konashenok
Post title: This should be a very specific kind of courses

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.

Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?

ProZ.com Staff — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 20:10:05 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If Proz.com provided paid or unpaid language courses, which language would you like to learn?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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