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Quizlet needs help! Translators and a Systems Engineer needed!

I just built this super cool system for translating Quizlet’s interface into different languages. You can already use Quizlet to type in data in other languages, but this will actually translate Quizlet’s English interface (the navigation, the instructions, etc.) into other languages.

It’s ready to be translated into any language (except maybe a right-to-left language like Hebrew). So if you’re fluent in any language other than English, send me an email at andrew@(quizlet’s domain) with what language you can translate Quizlet into and a little about yourself and your fluency level. Experience with (very) basic HTML will help you, but it’s not strictly required. You will receive credit in the footer of every page on the site for people using your language. The system for translating the site is super slick - you’ll enjoy it! ;)

I’m also looking for an expert systems engineer to work on making Quizlet faster. If you’re interested, I’ve posted the details on Craigslist, and I won’t repeat them here. Thanks y’all!

This entry was posted on Monday, February 18th, 2008 at 8:24 pm by Andrew and is filed under General, New Features, Technical Stuff. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

93 Responses to “Quizlet needs help! Translators and a Systems Engineer needed!”

  1. February 19th, 2008 at 5:48 am mightaswellbeclara:

    That sounds really cool. Too bad im not fluent in any language:(

  2. February 19th, 2008 at 1:31 pm nguyent3:

    yeah me 2
    i can speak vietnamese but i dont know enough to translate it………

  3. February 19th, 2008 at 3:23 pm Killersdeat0:

    I can do chinese…… but translating thousands of them ………..i don’t know..

  4. February 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pm scribbler101:

    my friend who has a quizlet account is almost fluent in french her username is ba_na_na and just tell her that scribbler told u about her
    k? well bi

  5. February 19th, 2008 at 6:16 pm KK:

    Id do latin but that would take forever.. sorry people

  6. February 19th, 2008 at 6:17 pm dabbbbb:

    i know you said no right to left but i can do hebrew if u ever need.

  7. February 19th, 2008 at 6:27 pm Andrew:

    dabb - thanks. I’m going to start off with this left-to-right stuff, and if it works well and we have time I’ll give a shot at right-to-left. I hear it’s a bit more work (I haven’t played with it too much though).

  8. February 20th, 2008 at 8:11 am Mary:

    Are you aware of the translation site known as babblefish? I think it was originally conceived and implemented by AltaVista, a search engine of long ago. The babblefish online translation tool may be useful for your translation efforts. May you keep riding the changing wave of user demand with skill and clairvoyance.

  9. February 20th, 2008 at 8:42 am chacko2:

    babelfish.altavista.com

  10. February 20th, 2008 at 1:35 pm kevin:

    Bablefish is decent but not good enough for something like this.. you need to reformat even english on some langs to get it to spit out the correct information

  11. February 20th, 2008 at 3:27 pm hi:

    i am fluent in 12 languages

  12. February 20th, 2008 at 3:34 pm I'd rather keep that personal!:

    ONE WORD BABBLEFISH!-no one is smart enough to translate all those freaky languages from countries the size of a single state!!!! Just a suggestion. :)

  13. February 20th, 2008 at 5:34 pm Andrew:

    No machine translation system has decent enough quality. Babelfish might be good enough for Spanish homework, but not Spaniards.

  14. February 20th, 2008 at 7:01 pm Walt:

    Try posting something on babelzilla.
    http://babelzilla.org/

    Its main purpose is to translate firefox extensions but you might get some feedback on what resources you can use for your app.

  15. February 20th, 2008 at 7:46 pm Andrew:

    Walt - thanks for the link. Right now I’ve had plenty of success finding translators for Quizlet just through this blog - we currently have people working on German, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. That’s not to say we don’t want more!

  16. February 21st, 2008 at 2:01 pm ILove Ponies:

    I’m good in Chinese…I can speak…but I’m only on Book 5 in Chinese school, so the writing and reading part is a big no-no

  17. February 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm :) Smile!:

    I’m fluent in Greek and Portugese.BTW you’re right babelfish is very basic and takes things as the literal term.

  18. February 21st, 2008 at 5:29 pm :D:

    im kinda okay at french.. but im limited on what i can say.. ive taken french for 4 years at a private school, so maybe i could help!

  19. February 21st, 2008 at 6:07 pm hi:

    OMG my bff lived in france for 8 years and completely fluent and has a quizlet!!!!
    and my other friend is fluent in Italian
    btw i go 2 an international school so every1 speaks a ton of diferent languages ill get them to help u

    l8ter

  20. February 22nd, 2008 at 1:06 pm Melin:

    Gosh, I could do this. Yo hablo español perfectamente, since it is inglés my second language!

  21. February 22nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm :) Smile!:

    I never could understand espanol…

  22. February 22nd, 2008 at 3:52 pm :) Smile!:

    BTW My father is portugese and my mother is greek

  23. February 22nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm :) Smile!:

    thats how i can speak so well i have lived in both portugal and greece

  24. February 23rd, 2008 at 6:18 am Cuong Nguyen:

    I can do Vietnamese

  25. February 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm pinky09:

    i could do spanish and maybe korean

  26. February 24th, 2008 at 7:49 am :) Smile!:

    Lots of ppl know spanish .Did you know there trying 2 make ENGLISH AND SPANISH THE USA’S OFFICIAL LANGUAGE I HOPE NOT THEN THE SIGNS WILL BE IN ENGLISH :) AND SPANISH :(

  27. February 24th, 2008 at 9:48 am Savvy10:

    I could do latin.

  28. February 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm :) Smile!:

    latin is the #1 LANGUAGE to know on the SAT’s very very helpful

  29. February 25th, 2008 at 6:02 am kayla:

    i can speak american/english lol

  30. February 25th, 2008 at 7:29 am :) Smile!:

    american isn’t a language

  31. February 25th, 2008 at 1:15 pm Xaturukumutuxat:

    I can do latin,spanish and chinese, but translating quizlet…

  32. February 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm telletubbies dude:

    hi

  33. February 25th, 2008 at 5:13 pm Ji Hyun An:

    I could do Korean

  34. February 26th, 2008 at 10:16 am VJ:

    i can speak latin, spanish, little french and a little greek. but not enough for translating…

  35. February 26th, 2008 at 12:54 pm Nick:

    Guys that is stupid. Latin is a dead language. Quizlet doesn’t need people to translate Quizlet into Latin because there is no one in the world who speaksk Latin and no other language,

  36. February 26th, 2008 at 1:21 pm telletubbies dude:

    ya its dead

  37. February 26th, 2008 at 2:40 pm :) Smile!:

    but its so useful to know for SATs

  38. February 26th, 2008 at 3:12 pm :) Smile!:

    People join Flamingo4’s (me) group called Chat It Up!!! It is really fun and has a funny Dr Phil REMIX forum/column! :) :P :D :lol: :mrgreen: love Flamingo4

  39. February 26th, 2008 at 3:47 pm telletubbies dude:

    hi i can do spanish

  40. February 26th, 2008 at 4:02 pm cmh0114:

    I can do some basic translating for Japanese, if you’re doing any character languages yet. It also depends on how much time it takes. I just started high school this year, and I’m still having a bit of trouble with homework time, but as long as it doesn’t take hours every night, I can do it, if anyone needs it.
    BTW, Nick - English, Spanish, and French are based off of Latin. If you know Latin, you’ll be well on your way to learning those three languages.

  41. February 26th, 2008 at 4:08 pm telletubbies dude:

    latin’s still dead

  42. February 26th, 2008 at 4:09 pm telletubbies dude:

    latin is mexico so y is it called latin

  43. February 26th, 2008 at 4:47 pm Puella29:

    LATIN IS NOT DEAD! IT IS IMMORTAL !!!

  44. February 26th, 2008 at 5:30 pm Toaster:

    I can do some basic hebrew…probably not enough to be useful, but I know people who are fluent in hebrew and I could get them to do it. :???:

  45. February 27th, 2008 at 12:22 pm killjoy74:

    ya id love to but i don speak eneything but english!! :(

  46. February 27th, 2008 at 2:09 pm anonymous:

    i can speak german, and a few cuss words in russian but that wont help at all.

  47. February 27th, 2008 at 2:10 pm anonymous:

    puella 29 i love your words, they speak great meaning to us latiners.

  48. February 27th, 2008 at 3:11 pm James the 3rd:

    Latin is dead yet it lives on making it immortal and dead!!!!!

  49. February 27th, 2008 at 4:33 pm :) Smile!:

    LATIN WILL NEVER BE DEAD!

  50. February 27th, 2008 at 4:41 pm KK:

    LATIN WILL LIVE FOREVER!!!!!

    u people who support latin r awesome! : ) people who dont… well… learn latin

  51. February 27th, 2008 at 4:42 pm KK:

    Yay latin! :)

  52. February 27th, 2008 at 5:09 pm :?:

    the only 2 times you’d need to know latin i can think of off the top of my head are 1. learning about anatomy/ organic science…. the muscles and stuff like that usually have latin names\\\ 2. it helps when you learn AP foreign languages\ english classes- latin roots are in nearly every word in french, german, spanish, and english… to name a few.

  53. February 27th, 2008 at 5:24 pm KK:

    yeah.. so its not dead… LATIN LIVES ON! there are some other languages 2 but i cant think of them right now.. studying 4 latin test with quizlet :)

  54. February 28th, 2008 at 2:21 am krnangelkitty:

    this is my username! and i can translate to Korean!
    msg me~ if interested!! hehe

  55. February 28th, 2008 at 4:33 am james the 3rd:

    latin is a dead language!!!!!

  56. February 28th, 2008 at 12:18 pm ludmilla97:

    I am a licensed French,English and Italian teacher in Virginia (French and Italian in New Jersey also) and I can translate from one to the other. (I’m rusty in Italian).

  57. February 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pm alina virgilyn c. brooks:

    i can do tamil

  58. February 29th, 2008 at 5:41 am KK:

    Litin is still amazing…. IT WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!!

  59. February 29th, 2008 at 5:16 pm ILovePonies:

    I’ll try Chinese!

  60. February 29th, 2008 at 5:17 pm ILovePonies:

    Latin is awesome!

    DUH

  61. March 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm Puella29:

    10 Cool Things about Latin:
    1. It helps your SAT scores. No it really does. Name a Latin word and I bet you can come up with lots of long confusing English words derived from it.
    2. Most of the Harry Potter spells and names are Latin. Severus (Snape)=Harsh/strict, Lumos=Light, etc.
    3. It’s fun to learn. Tu es stultior quam decem brassicae putridae! (You are dumber than ten rotten cabbages) :lol:
    4. Supplies my username
    5. Many English words are the same thing in Latin… fungus, senator, hippopotamus, and lots more.
    6. The table of the Elements involves Latin abbreviations
    7. You get to learn about cool Ancient Roman things (like Et tu, Brute? and Murmillones vs. Retiarii)
    8. English is waaay confusing compared to Latin. All the weird exceptions… and the words are really random and unrelated.
    9. You get to celebrate fun Roman holidays… they partied a lot and had so many holidays it’s not even funny
    10. LINGUAM LATINAM EST OPTIMAM !!!!

  62. March 2nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm Puella29:

    Plus 95% of Spanish words are Latin
    and 92% of English words are derived from Latin

  63. March 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm bman1129:

    i am amazing at networking so id love to help!!!

  64. March 3rd, 2008 at 1:40 pm savannah bailey:

    sorry i wish i could dut i can only speak english
    :(

  65. March 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm savannah bailey:

    :mrgreen:
    :p
    :D :( :)

    i wish i could help

  66. March 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm i:

    sorry i wish i could help
    :( :P

  67. March 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm Simon in CHina:

    Hi I could do it for Simplified Mandarin Chinese,

    Might it be possible to get some advertising as payment. I have problems with people not coming to my website. (Part of the problems could be that the Chinese government have blocked it.) :(
    have fun,
    SimoN:)

  68. March 4th, 2008 at 3:11 pm savannah:

    sorry i wish i could help d=but i only speak english ;) :???:

  69. March 4th, 2008 at 4:23 pm bman1129:

    i could do the system engenering

  70. March 4th, 2008 at 4:24 pm bman1129:

    my freind has all these keyboards from different countries and could help with translating!!

  71. March 5th, 2008 at 5:02 am Pia:

    What exactly do you need to have translated?

    I am a native German speaker, and a certified instructor of German as a Foreign Language (I teach in Canada and have my students use Quizlet, which most of them love, so thank you a lot Andrew!)and I study translation.

    Also I know some HTML since I a keep a course blog at Edublogs. Leave me a PM on Quizlet or send me an e-mail at piabyline at gmail dot com in case you need anything translated into German.

  72. March 5th, 2008 at 9:18 am yo:

    im fluent in arabic

  73. March 5th, 2008 at 5:00 pm mshuchel:

    Hey try Babblefish says Hisertech. translates many many languages….

  74. March 6th, 2008 at 8:41 am Anonymous:

    I can do pig latin lol:D

  75. March 6th, 2008 at 8:41 am Xatu:

    :)

  76. March 6th, 2008 at 3:54 pm Dan_The_Man:

    Hey andrew I was a validvictorian at a school with 3,000 kids I got a scholar ship in German

  77. March 6th, 2008 at 5:07 pm Hollis Woods:

    Some may think Latin is dead but it is not no one speaks it but alot of schools teach…. it may come back :)

  78. March 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pm poniluver:

    chinese is yes but no
    :S

  79. March 7th, 2008 at 2:29 pm Translator:

    You can try Babblefish I don’t know the site but I would assume it is babblefish.com if you have any question you can just ask :)

  80. March 7th, 2008 at 2:29 pm Irish-Guy7:

    Sorry the one about babblefish is me but I messed up the name

  81. March 9th, 2008 at 11:33 am hello:

    BLA BLA

  82. March 9th, 2008 at 6:26 pm ski till you get a cookie:

    who needs to learn languges when you can ski

  83. March 12th, 2008 at 9:08 am KK:

    EVERONE!!!
    oh, and i accually managed to understand #10 of puella29’s list..
    LINGUAM LATINAM EST OPTIMAM !!!! : ) : ) : )

  84. March 12th, 2008 at 12:52 pm *starlight*:

    Hey, why do you need to translate stuff?

  85. March 16th, 2008 at 7:33 am Thea:

    Hi there,

    I’m Romanian, living in U.S.A., have an official translator/intrepreter English-Romanian certification and a TOEFL IBT score of 115. I’d be glad to help with the translation.

  86. March 17th, 2008 at 3:29 pm Anonymous:

    Latin is my life! its not dead! it lives on in english, spanish, french…..YOU NAME IT!

  87. March 19th, 2008 at 4:57 am bonjouЯ:

    im fluent in every language in the world but unless u pay…

  88. March 19th, 2008 at 11:17 am ILovePonies:

    and latin is sooooo alive

  89. March 19th, 2008 at 6:31 pm Stacie:

    I can also help with the Chinese translation. I can read, write, and type. Let me know how to help out!
    great site, BTW. it’s cool that i can make Chinese characters into flash cards without problem.

  90. March 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 pm ILovePonies:

    I know how to type chinese:
    see:
    你好 我的 名字是 ILovePonies

    but I can help yet I’m not very good

  91. March 24th, 2008 at 2:07 pm Alvy:

    welll Im speak spanish, I can help.

  92. March 25th, 2008 at 8:38 pm Tom:

    Speaking of translation, here’s a really funny translation web page - it translates any page into *Redneck* English. Try it out it’s really funny.
    http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/

  93. March 26th, 2008 at 4:08 pm wee:

    translator sites aren’t accurate at all.

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