This is a great start. Obviously an MVP but perhaps you might want to consider highlighting the sequential changed word. For example: In a lugar de La Mancha might be a nice add to emphasise the change and reinforce lugar = place etc?
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#12This is a great start. Obviously an MVP but perhaps you might want to consider highlighting the sequential changed word. For example: In a lugar de La Mancha might be a nice add to emphasise the change and reinforce lugar = place etc?
Good idea
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#13This is great, amazing idea!
However, I don't understand why you chose don quixote. That's not modern, normal, everyday prose, it was written 400 years ago.. any spanish kid would have trouble understanding it.
Any other modern (less than 100 years) and famous novel would be much adequate for learning spanish.
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#14Oh I'd definitely love to see this completed. I don't speak Spanish, so I'm not sure if this would be a problem here - are all sentences in Spanish guaranteed to have an almost one-one translation to English? In other words, what happens when the word order changes? This would be a huge deal in German.
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#15This is great, amazing idea! However, I don't understand why you chose don quixote. That's not modern, normal, everyday prose, it was written 400 years ago.. any spanish kid would have trouble understanding it. Any other modern (less than 100 years) and famous novel would be much adequate for learning spanish.
I agree it’s not very prosaic. I guess it has marketing value being a notorious story. Hopefully I can wrap it up and do a more modern novel. Any suggestions?
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#16Oh I'd definitely love to see this completed. I don't speak Spanish, so I'm not sure if this would be a problem here - are all sentences in Spanish guaranteed to have an almost one-one translation to English? In other words, what happens when the word order changes? This would be a huge deal in German.
Thanks, no the order differs in Spanish as well. That’s why it’s going to take me a while as I’m going over the Spanish and English translations and trying to make it work. I will try to honor the Spanish order more than the English, even if that makes the English sound weird. The idea is you know English, so it doesn’t have to be very understandable on the English side. Just enough to give you the context.
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#17Cannot get past slide 19 on iOS Safari. “Next” button does nothing.
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#18Cannot get past slide 19 on iOS Safari. “Next” button does nothing.
Thanks, yeah it’s an MVP. Was trying to gauge interest before I complete the whole translation.
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#19This is great, amazing idea! However, I don't understand why you chose don quixote. That's not modern, normal, everyday prose, it was written 400 years ago.. any spanish kid would have trouble understanding it. Any other modern (less than 100 years) and famous novel would be much adequate for learning spanish.
It would be fun to go to Mexico or Spain and talk 400 years old Spanish like it's normal.
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#20Oh I'd definitely love to see this completed. I don't speak Spanish, so I'm not sure if this would be a problem here - are all sentences in Spanish guaranteed to have an almost one-one translation to English? In other words, what happens when the word order changes? This would be a huge deal in German.
German would definitely be problematic but it's still likely to be one of the least affected, especially in the English -> German direction, and nearly every word would at least has a clear translation. Virtually any sentence in an SOV (or less common, OSV) language would be essentially unworkable while maintaining word order.