Time to think of the languages

Started by Sami, November 10, 2009, 11:24:35 AM

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Talentz

#20
November 12, 2009, 06:26:56 PM
I don't really have an opinion about language version. Though I guess I wouldn't mind a Spanish or Japanese version..  :P


Talentz

samomuransky

#21
November 12, 2009, 07:38:05 PM
Sami, if you want additional langs you should focus on other ones.. In Germany and Frace majority of people (especially aviation-interested) speaks English.. there are countries where English is bigger problem :)

Sami

#22
November 12, 2009, 07:53:03 PM
Not the French at least..  ;)  (no offence meant, but that's a fact)

samomuransky

#23
November 13, 2009, 07:47:59 AM
Well, in fact, problem in France is not that they don't know English, but they don't want to use it.. At least that's my experience :)

T8KE0FF

#24
November 14, 2009, 08:50:13 PM
Spend your time creating new features, this game is becoming increasingly boring...

edobarto

#25
November 14, 2009, 09:31:29 PM
Aviation world lives and breathes english language... So I think that everyone who's worth a penny should be able to understand english. Anyway, if you want to translate your game in Italian I would be very happy to help you UNLESS there's programming to do: I'm a s*** in programming! ;)

slannoy

#27
November 15, 2009, 07:06:50 PM
Don't work. When you log-in it comes back to english.

samomuransky

#28
November 16, 2009, 05:08:29 PM
Quote from: T8KE0FF on November 15, 2009, 06:52:52 PM
Why dont you just use something like this?? Its easier...
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https://www.airwaysim.com/&sl=en&tl=es&history_state0=&swap=1

Believe me, Google Translator will not give you good result in most languages :)

RisteMakedonski

#29
November 16, 2009, 08:56:40 PM
Quote from: Samo on November 16, 2009, 05:08:29 PM
Believe me, Google Translator will not give you good result in most languages :)
Yeah, in Macedonian "LINK TO US" translated to something that meant "Link to United States" lol.  ;)

samomuransky

#30
November 21, 2009, 11:23:16 AM
Few times I tried to translate texts from Slovak language to English and it don't make any sense :D

slannoy

#31
November 21, 2009, 11:48:57 AM
Anyway translating a website as I explained a few post above is only to define values. This can be performed by users.
The admin work is only to upload them into the system.
The only thing that can take times is to create new images for some titles. Pages titles are made of images and not of text. But is this not time consuming when you want to have in a future a multilingual website ?

DenisG

#32
November 21, 2009, 12:08:01 PM
Hi folks.

Well, I agree with most opinions that English is not only the standard aviation language, thus, one could expect most interested folks able to speak it, but it is also the easiest language to use for those applications.

Anyway, Sami, if you need somebody to help translate into German, French, Portuguese or Russian, feel free to send me a message. I had an unsolicited hospital treatment during the past two months and will be off work until mid-January. Same goes for the idea of setting up incumbent airlines against whom to fly, as mentioned in another post earlier.

Denis

nomad127

#33
November 21, 2009, 12:21:00 PM
Quote from: Samo on November 12, 2009, 07:38:05 PM
Sami, if you want additional langs you should focus on other ones.. In Germany and Frace majority of people (especially aviation-interested) speaks English.. there are countries where English is bigger problem :)

I agree.  Germans and French speak English and the ones who don't are either too old to care about this game or too poor to afford to play it.

I would look at countries that still haven't got a good grasp on English yet, like China.  Plus, think about it.....1.6 billion people here!

lastchancer

#34
November 30, 2009, 11:30:51 AM
I wouldn´t say English is universal in general. But English is defenitely the aviation language.
I´m german, and my English is far away from perfect. But I would even have problems to find translations for terms like "livery", "D-Check" or "slot".
I´m not sure if you may get a job in the airline industry, if you don´t speak English.
QuoteI think keeping it in one language keeps the player community together (they all know what they are talking about).
Think of the forum!
The website´s start page should be multilingual to attract new people, the interface might be translated, but the forum language should always be English.

tofen

#35
November 30, 2009, 01:07:24 PM
Additional languages would be a nice touch to the game, but not really necessary.
And like "lastchancer" said, some aviation terms isn't even translatable.

Still adding more languages couldn't hurt anything, so if you got the time, then go for it.
I could help with translation to Swedish.

I think you should look at the user statistics (you made a thread with that a while ago) to see where most users are from. I think German would be the place to start, together with Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch and maybe French (which isn't on the chart).

freshmore

#36
November 30, 2009, 01:36:23 PM
well if the french are not on the chart whats the point of translating it!!!

tofen

#37
November 30, 2009, 04:50:39 PM
Quote from: freshmore on November 30, 2009, 01:36:23 PM
well if the french are not on the chart whats the point of translating it!!!
Maybe there would be more French players if the game was available in there own language?
(yeah, I know it's far fetched ;))

munipandita

#38
January 24, 2010, 06:57:18 AM
As said before, for the long term planning it's important to think about translations.

And, as said before too, you shouldn't focus on German or Italian.. Those languages mainly spoken in Europe.

You should focus in Portuguese and Spanish. I am brazilian, and here people just don't like a software because they are in english "i can't understand anything!!" sounds ignorant, and it is.. Well, it's not everyone, many and many people speak english, but adding a portuguese and spanish translations would bring a lot more users.

i am volunteer for portuguese translation ;)

munipandita

#39
January 24, 2010, 06:59:24 AM
You must focus in languages that people from countries that speaks those language don't speak english very well. Taking Brazil as an example, i guess we have some brazilian players here. I saw few of them. With a translation, the number would increase a lot
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