Foundation/AGM2022/Election to Board/Answers and manifestos/Q04 What languages do you speak

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What languages do you speak ?

Daniela Waltersdorfer J. - Q04 What languages do you speak?

Fluent: Spanish (first language), and English
Some: French

Arnalie Vicario - Q04 What languages do you speak?

I speak and write fluent Filipino and good English.

Włodzimierz Bartczak - Q04 What languages do you speak?

Polish is my native language. I speak English and basic German

Ariel Kadouri - Q04 What languages do you speak?

I am fluent in English and have a working understanding of Hebrew.

Victor N.Sunday - Q04 What languages do you speak?

Christian Shadrack - Q04 What languages do you speak?

I speak and write fluently in English, French, Swahili and Lingala.

Sarah Hoffmann - Q04 What languages do you speak?

I'm a native German speaker, fluent in English, can have a conversation in French and can somewhat manage to read a text in Spanish.

Logan McGovern - Q04 What languages do you speak?

Português and English

Arun Ganesh - Q04 What languages do you speak?

Tamil, Hindi, English

Mateusz Konieczny - Q04 What languages do you speak?

I speak Polish (quite well, as a native speaker) and I can communicate in English.

I had a talk on STOTM 2022 and 2021 if anyone wants to review my English. Or learn about the relatively easy way how to discover why specific software is hard to use (2022). 2021 is about the consequences of not enforcing attribution requirements of OSM data.

Craig Allan - Q04 What languages do you speak?

Languages I know:

I grew up speaking en-ZA English, like Firefishy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Trevor Noah, Elon Musk and Mark 'Ubuntu' Shuttleworth. I also have fair Afrikaans, bad Zulu and extraordinarily bad Swahili. I'm working hard on the Swahili because it reaches about 200 million people, mostly in Africa and I am now partly resident in Kenya.

I am aware that I am fortunate to be a first-language English speaker. English is an important global language with well over a billion people having some knowledge of it. Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, French and Arabic follow up numerically. English is the primary language of OSM, but I don't think it should be the only language. I do love the OSM ethic that you can always contribute to any digital discussion in your own language. This is so cool, and it works because machine translation is now fairly good for many languages.

Reaching out beyond English:

I think OSM needs to make a big effort to ensure that those little 'translate' buttons are visible on ALL of the OSM channels. This is going to be hard work, because there are a LOT of OSM channels on many different services. Also, the languages available are limited.

  • [en-ZA] However, I believe that many speakers of small languages have learned one or more of the larger languages on the machine.
  • [zu-ZA] Kodwa-ke, ngikholelwa ukuthi izikhulumi eziningi zezilimi ezincane zifunde ulimi olulodwa noma eziningi ezinkulu emshinini.
  • [sw] Walakini, ninaamini kuwa wasemaji wengi wa lugha ndogo wamejifunza moja au zaidi ya lugha kubwa kwenye mashine.
  • [af-ZA] Ek glo egter dat baie sprekers van klein tale een of meer van die groter tale op die masjien geleer het.
  • [ga] Mar sin féin, creidim go bhfuil go leor cainteoirí na dteangacha beaga tar éis ceann amháin nó níos mó de na teangacha níos mó a fhoghlaim ar an meaisín.


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