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Tatoeba: A bridge between languages.

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What is Tatoeba?

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Tatoeba is a language dictionary.

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You can search words

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and get translations.

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But it's not exactly a typical dictionary.

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It's all about sentences,

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Not words.

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You can search sentences containing a certain word

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And get translations for these sentences.

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"Why sentences?" you may ask.

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Well, because, sentences are more interesting.

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Sentences bring context to the words.

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Sentences have personalities.

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They can be funny, smart, silly

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insightful, touching,

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hurtful.

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Sentences can teach us a lot,

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and a lot more than just words.

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So we love sentences.

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But, even more, we love languages.

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And what we really want is to have many sentences

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in many—and any—languages.

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This is why Tatoeba is multilingual.

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But not that kind of multilingual—

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not the kind where languages

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are being simply paired up together,

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and where some pairs are left behind.

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Tatoeba is really multilingual.

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All the languages are interconnected.

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If an Icelandic sentence has a translation in English,

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and the English sentence has a translation in Swahili,

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then indirectly, this will provide a Swahili translation

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for the Icelandic sentence.

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Languages that would have never found themselves together in a traditional system

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can be connected in Tatoeba.

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Awesome, right?

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But, where do we get the sentences?

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And how do we translate them?

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Obviously, this cannot be the work of one person.

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This is why Tatoeba is collaborative.

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Everyone is free to contribute.

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And everyone has the ability to contribute.

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It doesn't require you to be a polyglot.

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Everyone speaks a language.

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Everyone can feed the database

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to illustrate new vocabulary.

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Everyone can help ensure that sentences sound correct,

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and are correctly spelled.

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And actually, this project needs everyone.

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Languages are not carved in stone.

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Languages live through all of us.

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We want to capture all the uniqueness of each language.

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And we want to capture their evolution through time.

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But you know, it would be sad

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to collect all these sentences and keep them for ourselves.

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Because there's so much you can do with them.

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Which is why Tatoeba is open.

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Our source code is open,

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Our data is open.

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We're releasing all the sentences we collect

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under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

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This means you can reuse them freely for a textbook,

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for an application,

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for a research project,

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for anything!

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So that's Tatoeba,

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But that's not the whole picture.

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Tatoeba is not just an open, collaborative,

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multilingual dictionary of sentences.

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It's part of an ecosystem that we want to build.

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We want to bring language tools to the next level.

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We want to see innovation in the language learning landscape.

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And this cannot happen without open language resources

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which cannot be built without a community,

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which cannot contribute without efficient platforms.

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So ultimately, with Tatoeba,

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we are only building the foundations

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to make the Web

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a better place for language learning.