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Derian
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 Message 9 of 17
24 May 2010 at 12:21pm | IP Logged 
JW wrote:
Are there changes that should be made to make the Multilingual Lounge better?
YES!
It's time to make some changes to the Non-English Discussion Rooms.
It turns out that there are rooms that are more popular and those which are less popular.
The distribution of interest in specific languages/language families is not even, therefore some changes ought to be made to pan things out.

Room / topics / posts.
  • French        57 - 1180
  • Spanish      73 - 1878
  • German      78 - 1860
  • Russian      14 - 384
  • Italian        18 - 557
  • Skand. & N. 47 - 1300
  • Esperanto    95 - 1617
  • Multilingual   135 - 6870


As we can see, the Russian and Italian rooms are the least visited ones (with the fewest topics and posts). There is 5x more topics in the German room than there are in the Russian room, whereas the Multilingual Lounge is relatively overcrowded, being the home for so many languages, and has almost twice the number of topics the German room has, and 10x the number of topics and 18X the number of posts there are in the Russian room [sic!].

In order to fix the deficient rooms and lighten the load of the ML, the changes I would call for are:
-> Changing the Russian Room into the Slavic Room. Quite obvious, isn't it? :)
-> Changing the Italian Room into the Italian & Other Romanic. This obviously referrs to the Romanic languages apart from French and Spanish, which have their seperate rooms. It's the same solution as with the Skandinavian & Nordic.

Edited by Derian on 24 May 2010 at 1:14pm

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JW
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 Message 10 of 17
24 May 2010 at 1:37pm | IP Logged 
Derian wrote:
In order to fix the deficient rooms and lighten the load of the ML, the changes I would call for are:
-> Changing the Russian Room into the Slavic Room. Quite obvious, isn't it? :)
-> Changing the Italian Room into the Italian & Other Romanic. This obviously referrs to the Romanic languages apart from French and Spanish, which have their seperate rooms. It's the same solution as with the Skandinavian & Nordic.


Sounds like a good idea to me...
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Derian
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 Message 11 of 17
25 May 2010 at 1:07pm | IP Logged 
I've made a seperate topic for this in the Technical Room.
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=20991&PN=1&TPN=1
Voice your support, please :)

Edited by Derian on 25 May 2010 at 1:07pm

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thenewlife
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 Message 12 of 17
28 February 2011 at 11:52am | IP Logged 
it is so nice but what about a chatroom for all?
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canada38
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 Message 13 of 17
21 March 2011 at 3:21am | IP Logged 
I like the idea of a Slavic room, but in my opinion it would be better called Russian
and other Slavic
, since Russian is the most popular language in the family.

As for Italian and other Romance, I think it should be left as Italian.

Additionally, I think an Asian Languages section would be a great idea. It could
be modeled after the Scandinavian section (i.e geographical connection plus some, but not
all, of the languages are related) It could be focused on only the big 3 (Chinese,
Japanese, Korean), or it could also include others such as Vietnamese, Mongolian, Thai,
etc.
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atama warui
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 Message 14 of 17
07 May 2012 at 2:11am | IP Logged 
I second the post above me, an "Asian" forum would definitely be great.

I also find the automatic space-injection highly disturbing when writing in Japanese. Also, This forum produces 文字化け, corrupted text, which makes it pretty much useless for Japanese. You might want to look into this to find out what's wrong.
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cathrynm
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 Message 15 of 17
07 May 2012 at 5:35am | IP Logged 
Chinese, Japanese, Korean are always grouped together. Maybe this would include Tibetan and Vietnamese? (Though because of the glitch, it is not fun writing Japanese here.)   

I kind of associate Estonian with Nordic/Scandinavia, even though it's geographically on the border.   

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Duke100782
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 Message 16 of 17
28 October 2012 at 2:36pm | IP Logged 
"Asian" sounds too broad a description for a language grouping from an academic persepective. However,
perhaps from the point of view of a typical "Western" language enthusiast, which some can use to describe
most of the participants on this website, it is an acceptable description.


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