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Note: All these rules apply for letters as well. Germany actually still relies on snail mail for many matters of official business. Make sure to use the correct case endings for sehr geehrte it is an adjective, after all. For very informal emails, you can say Hallo! Make sure you get those right. The biggest point to remember when writing the body is to keep it formal.
This means not using any slang vocabulary. Great deck! Thanks a lot! I'm a bit confused though. Besides, their note type is different from the note type of this one, which is much better, by the way.
This is not a complaint, of course, I'm just trying to wrap my head about it: are those two the other 2 decks from this 3-deck "kit"? Thanks a lot and keep up with the awesome job! Then I decided to update Part 1 to something better what it is right now — to see if people would like it. I also reduced the number of cards in Part 1 from to so it looks less intimidating for beginners.
Some translations are wrong. For example, "Elle me dit quelque chose. This is known as a "phrasal verb" or "idiomatic expression". Hello Neri! I'm an admirer of your lists of "sentences sorted from easiest to hardest". You've done an amazing job! They helped me a lot at studying the languages that I need.
I think your decks are one of the best tools for learning languages ever! Thank you really much, I deeply appreciate your efforts!
Will you be able to create such a deck for Uyghur? I am ready to pay you a reasonable sum of money for this job. You see, there are very few resources for learning Uyghur, and this is quite a big language about 10 million speakers in China and Central Asia.
Please help the community of Uyghur-learners, we really need it! Thank you beforehand! My email address is shamil gmail. Respectfully yours, Shamil Khayrutdinov.
Amazing tool, thank you so very much for the amount of time you must have spent on this! It's ok but there are lots of errors.
However, I updated this deck to remove idiomatic expressions. Awesome : do you have anything to help learn IPA? Surely will be beneficial for learning my french. Very useful. There was a similar deck by the same author which had sentences spoken in American English. Can you please help me find it? It was of great use to me but I lost it. I remember it was just two decks.
Thank you in advance. There is no translation of bold part Comment from author. Have you seem the dictionary links that come in each card? It includes a dictionary link to the bold part. One of the few decks on Anki with clear and useful audio.
If you want to study from spoken French, this is a great asset. French here, and about that "Comment va votre travail? The "Comment va I updated the deck to use a more informal, more natural-sounding list of sentences. Could you check it? After 10 Days of learning I tried to implement some of these into a conversation with a french aquaintance. Not only did she tell me, that some of the expressions were never used this way in French, but even some of the grammar was wrong.
I counterchecked this against linguee. Some of the sentences are just word for word translations of the english sentence. Example: "Comment va votre travail? You get everything you need, the sentence spoken, the translation and thats verbal and written for both, its awesome!
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Location is not available. Solution 1: Change permission for the drive Step 1 In Windows Explorer, right-click the partition that you cannot access and click Properties. Step 3 Enter the username to select and click OK. Then you should select follow information:. For those who cannot live without dict. It's free and contains all of dict. Just search the AppStore for "dict.
I'm still working on editing interfaces, so please send an e-mail in case of errors. It may be too early for this step, so I might undo this in a few days. Additionally, the maximum voting power is now back to 5. That's , threads or questions , postings in total. Including German-English this makes 41 language pairs, with most of them still in their early stages. At the moment there are 38, entries, all new language pairs combined. More languages can be added as soon as the system has stabilized.
I spent the last days mainly adapting guidelines, fixing bugs and adding missing features, tags and the links to other online resources. The guidelines are now more or less stable.
I'd ask all participants to have a look at the updated guidelines, as a few things have changed. Inflection information normally appearing in most paper dictionaries will shortly be solved using a new single-language function as opposed to adding the same information to a multitude of bilingual entries. That's why I'd ask you to use only the basic form when adding entries in the new languages. The maximum "Voting Power" for new languages is still limited, previously to 3 points, and to 4 points starting today.
As soon as the initial difficulties are mastered I will change the maximum to the regular 5 points. A few days ago I met someone who now supports me in all language-related questions. Muhamed works with me in the office, gives advice and helps assembling all the language-related information dict. He's also contributing to the vocabulary. I'll be on vacation for 10 days, starting next Tuesday Aug. Please only send urgent requests during this time.
Please postpone everything that can wait a few days to the end of August, so I can recharge my batteries to be able to finish the last few tasks needed for a fully working multilingual dict. I'm really impressed! Thank you very much! After a long period of development I'm proud to announce the release of the multilingual features of dict.
I'd like to thank the pre-beta testers for giving me the chance to find and eliminate the first bugs and problems, enabling me to make the system stable enough for more participants. As of now any language in conjunction with German or English can be added and filled with vocabulary. The link to the buildup page "Add Your Language" on the homepage of dict. Other registered users can also participate if they know the link, but I'd like to avoid giving it to too many users at once to be able to fix possible problems without too much pressure.
The multilingual features are still in beta stage, some minor functionality is still missing and the risk of errors is still high. I will spend the next days watching the process, fixing problems and answering questions.
As soon as the situation has stabilized I will unlock the new features for all registered users. My current plan is to release all of the functionality to the public including unregistered, "passive" users as soon as several language pairs have passed the mark of verified entries.
More information here German only. New: Automatic reassignment in case of text changes in the dictionary, automatic assignment for new recordings. New feature: Automatic voice output when learning optional. In case of problems dead links please mail to me.
Once again the dictionary has grown by , entries - within one year, almost to the day! Amazing - and this has been achieved solely by the input of the user community! Thanks to all of the registered participants! Discussions in the forum often ended without results. That's why I created a new system for changing and extending the guidelines the set of rules for vocabulary maintenance. Here is how it works: a. Separation of the guidelines into a general unalterable and an alterable part called "Rules and Conventions for German-English".
The alterable part can be discussed and changed based on direct democratic principles. Each section has its own "edit" link, "new" links can be found between sections. Only VP5 users can put sections up for discussion. Open sections are treated in the fashion of open vocabulary entries several variants to be voted on. After a certain timeframe [x1] there will be a decision in any case and it will automatically be part of the guidelines. There are two possibilities: e1.
Suggestion Rejected: The change request does not reach the minimum number of participants [x2] or there is no majority for one variant: The guidelines will not be changed.
Suggestion Accepted: One version has reached the majority of [x3]: The guidelines will automatically be updated. I have also updated and rearranged the rules themselves, so please have a look at them. To detect possible problems with the voting process and for the participants to get familiar with it, I've opened a new test section. I'd ask all interested participants to play with the new functionality using this section.
I will delete the section afterwards. I still consider the guidelines voting system to be in "beta" stage, so in case of bugs, please tell me. Even though the recording feature attracts the occasional joker, it's been a great success so far. Many thanks to all of the great speakers and verifiers! Some numbers for the records: In total different people have contributed voice recordings, 11 of them are considered "Top Speakers" because of more than verified recordings.
My special thanks to you! Umlauts are now inserted at the current cursor position, brackets are added in pairs. To avoid unnecessary waiting for former participants while avoiding to send them unwanted e-mail notifications this feature has to be enabled in each participant's preferences: Re-Opening Notification and Verification Delay. Error and confirmation messages are now centered and color-coded more visibly. Links to the history page and edit form of the processed entry have been added.
Before that, nouns were detected using the German gender tags, verbs using the word "to" at the beginning of the English field. Other kinds of entries used different additional tags. This change was quite a substantial one internally, so in case of any technical issues, I'd ask for your understanding and a short notification by e-mail. I will most probably do some clean-up tasks within the next hours or days. As a first visible step I've extended the vocabulary input form, further steps should become visible within the next days.
In case of questions or technical problems please mail to me as usual. That's why we unfortunately had to experience a major downtime today. I'm sorry! Verb-derived nouns and other nouns now appear after verbs. If there are between 50 and 75 results, all are displayed on one page to avoid unnecessary page turning.
To keep names and titles from literature works or movies from blending into regular results, entries tagged with the following subjects are now displayed in their own group below the other entries: "lit. That's why I currently try to use the vocabulary trainer statistics to determine the importance of each entry and sort the results accordingly. The grey number in the German column shows the number of vocabulary trainer lists that contain the entry.
This number is updated on a weekly basis. Only one-word entries are taken into account. Upon notification I would check the lists and maybe publish them at the vocab trainer overview page. To speed up the verification process I recommend using the comment field to give good source information. Winfried Honig! The section "More Information" search results pages , the "Not Found" pages and the edit forms Contribute section now use the same links database which can be extended by one's own favorite ressources.
Unfortunately this led to some problems with special characters and short-term server overloading. The major issues should be solved by now, but I'm still doing some fine-tuning here and there. In case you're experiencing strange behaviour that doesn't disappear after five minutes, please notify me at paul dict.
Sorry for the inconvenience! To do so, visit the My Account page. How time flies Once again some statistical information for the records: dict. This year there's a new number to mention: 49, voice recordings have already been submitted to dict.
I've never used one in the past, because having to wait after opening a browser window annoys me. But on the other hand I have to look up terms quite often and I also find it annoying having to open Google, Wikipedia or dict. I'm not using the search field of modern browsers, because I don't want to switch between the several search engines all the time.
That's why I built my own browser homepage some time ago. Due to the technique of counting up for each posting, user statistics have become slightly inaccurate over the years. That's because reloading a page after posting can sometimes make the server count up a second time. Even though calculating the correct numbers takes up more server resources than simply counting up on every event, I got rid of the counting system. From now on, user statistics will be accurate all the time.
The correct answer to the last question is now shown below the graphical representation of the vocabulary box. If the "Yes" button was clicked by mistake, this can now be undone. Doing so might facilitate edit wars if insistent users keep undeleting their entries over and over again. To avoid that, one user can undelete an entry only once.
This will render fake registrations for the sole purpose of re-undeleting entries useless. The results of this criterion were quite similar to those of the "Voting Accuracy" anyhow. Only a few users, most of which are no longer active at dict. This change makes the whole system more transparent and easier to adapt to further languages. In other words: You can collect entries from the search results pages and record them in one stack. Additionally user comments are also displayed.
I might take back this change in case of problems. Thanks to all the speakers! I had to implement some changes in the database layout to make this available. That's not too easy without interrupting the service, that's why it took me so long to get it done. The subject selecting interface doesn't open a popup window anymore, now it opens within the input form.
This works faster and is more convenient to use. Tip: Limit the amount of subjects displayed by typing the first letter s. Additionally I improved keyboard control of input and review forms. Lots of character sets, from Arabic to Yiddish are supported.
This problem is solved by now. I'm sorry for the inconvenience! Both import and export are now available on the "Maintain" page, which is linked next to the name of each list on the vocab trainer overview page. This works in all browsers except Opera.
The other possibilities are displayed crossed out as of today. This is especially useful for users contributing audio recordings, unless their pronunciation is accent-free. If this information is given in a user's profile, the nickname is tagged with an [R] within the audio output areas.
In case this leads to problems with long periods of silence before the actual words, I might put this back in. To post such a request, click the loudspeaker button, then the button "Request" within the speech bubble.
Audio requests are collected in a list and displayed to registered users on the Audio Recordings page if available yellow bar. Using this feature also users who don't want to contribute by recording words can participate in improving the voice output feature - just report entries with questionable computer voices, so native speakers can record them. An example of application could be having recorded the German word "modern" in the sense of "up to date" and erroneously also assigned it to "modern [verwesen]".
Experienced registered users Voting Power 5 can change all assignments. If three different users vote for deactivating the account in question, this is done automatically. In case I'm not at my desk I will then check this afterwards. To also give credit to those who improve dict. The ranking is determined by the number of verified recordings minus the number of deleted recordings to reflect both quality and quantity.
This feature is only available to registered users to avoid spam. Comments are visible on the audio history page , in the "status" column. The last comment is displayed to the recording user directly before recording the next entry. This way users can be provided with improvement suggestions quickly. Other updates: Dictionary search results pages now highlight entries with user recordings once a user clicks the loudspeaker button.
The "Record" button audio list , page bottom now suggests the most important words and phrases as defined by the vocabulary trainer's usage statistics.
Additionally it's now possible to open audio entries by their number audio list, "Tools" section. Some other enhancements are still pending and will be released soon. It took dict. That's an enormous accomplishment! Many thanks to all contributing users, most of all to the core group of power users!
Just add the pound hash, number symbol and the number of the posting, e. This number is displayed at the top right corner of each thread. Many thanks to all users recording words or checking recordings! I'm very proud to say that there are excellent speakers participating!
I very much apologize for these issues! I'm working intensively on solving them. When sending error reports to me please include a detailed description of the problem, the browser version you are using and an example link copy from address bar.
If possible, please also include a Screenshot , so I can see several parameters at one glance. Since the start of dict. Additionally, dict. Lots of new features also require an increased layout width. Last, but not least, the online advertising industry, making a site like dict. By displaying synonyms and inflections more prominently I hope I was able to make dict. In case you find any layout bugs, please tell me about them make sure to include the full URL from your browsers location bar, or, even better, a screenshot.
Any other feedback is very welcome, too. If the ads annoy you, click "Remove Ads" above the top banner. Beta Since August dict. The audio files needed are generated by a so-called text-to-speech program on each request. As of today there's a new addition to that. Just like the vocabulary database is continually extended by the users of dict. You only have to connect a microphone or headset and click the record button, there's no additional software needed.
Any given word can have several user recordings attached to it. This way it will be possible to hear the same word spoken with a British, an American, Canadian, Australian, Irish or other accent, provided that different user recordings are available for that word.
In addition to that the speech recording function will also be able to solve the problem of heteronyms , which are words equally written, but pronounced differently - like "minute" "very small" or "part of an hour". A list of previous recordings including a rating function and a recording button can be found here. To my knowledge there is no other dictionary website in the world providing a user recording feature, so I'm very excited about how it'll work out.
Please try it and tell me what you think about it! Linked from My Account top of page. Can be activated in your preferences. Just hold down the shift key and right-click the word to look up. If you sent an email to paul at dict. Currently I'm evaluating several ways to improve server performance, to keep server costs and maintenance efforts within bounds. Currently serving 2.
If you encounter problems when trying to post to the forum or Contribute section, please tell me! This feature can be found on the history page of the respective entry. That's possible from now on, but only for registered users. Log in to see "edit" links following your posted text. Example Buaya. Try the new vocabulary game, it's the yellow box located directly on the homepage of dict.
You can also set www. That's why I'm introducing an additional rule to hopefully avoid this in the future. Only users who have been active in the forum, the Contribute area or the vocabulary trainer section at least once can utilize the contact form from today on. This should circumvent software-induced spam. Even though this has happened only rarely so far, I'm really sorry for the spamming incidents and I apologize for that.
This means it took less than a year to double the pageview number! A few numbers for the records and to illustrate the development of dict. Yesterday the page view number exceeded 1. Compare apply to with "apply to". Other examples: "nicht nur" , "auch so".
This should turn out to be useful when correcting texts. If www. This should protect registered users from spambots. I apologize for that - I'll find a solution to avoid this in the future. I'll try to answer my mails daily, but as I'll have to do this using notebook and cellphone while travelling through the country, I'm not sure if I can get a connection every day.
Please send mail only in urgent cases until 25th. Vocabulary correction requests will be processed once I'm back again, because I can't carry all of my reference books. To use it, make sure the language settings of your vocabulary lists are correct, click the maintain link next to each list to check. Currently there are no predefined vocabulary lists for these languages, so please add the translations yourself, using the "Add" button "maintain" page.
The shuffle link can be found below the answer field. Clicking it will shuffle all cards within their boxes. Chat entries can be hidden from the listing if required. An unsubscribe link is included in the mail. Any feedback regarding these changes is welcome!
This way you're not limited to English-German translations anymore. My plan is to utilize the most widely used entries per language combination to build up basic verified vocabulary databases. I will use the next days and weeks to implement several other vocab trainer enhancements, like speech output for other languages and a search feature for public vocabulary lists.
This option can be turned on in the user preferences section. The gadget called "dict. Examples: desweiteren , jenachdem , rumbleseat , bottomline. The list of unsuccessful searches does not contain terms identified as typos anymore.
A typo is identified when a user clicks one of the suggested corrections after an unsuccessful search. This improves the usefulness of the list as a basis for new vocabulary suggestions. Search algorithm modified, better results for multi-word entries with word recurrences. Rating negatively is not possible anymore, because a neutral rating is already a negative one compared to the standard plus.
Splits generate an automatic plus for previous votes corresponding to one of the split variants. For entries with several verification rounds the system only considers the last round per user.
For detailed information and discussion see the corresponding forum thread. For more information about the new rights system, see the right column at the Hall of Fame. By popular demand, German inflections will now be displayed next to the search results in the column to the right.
Complete inflection tables can be reached using the link "more". Additionaly these tables are being used for the feature "did you mean", appearing when a particular inflected word could not be found. Examples: begriffest , unsres , abonniertet , Abbildern. This way there should be room for further traffic increases. I also updated the English speech output software, former mispronunciations like "toothache" are correct by now. Additional rules welcome! Today I had my first regular working day there, and I'm really glad I finally stopped working from home.
Virtual communication is just not the same as talking to real people If you're self employed and looking for a nice place to work, feel free to contact me: paul at dict. I thought the current server setup would make it through the summer, but unfortunately it doesn't seem so.
That's why I ordered another server yesterday - I will add it to the cluster within the next days. I tried to satisfy these wishes by adding categories to the forum. I wanted to avoid having separate areas, because regular users would have had to check each of them separately. So I came up with some kind of filter system, enabling users to choose which entries to display at the listing pages.
Wishes, complaints and further requests are always welcome! I finally managed to add another long-requested feature: The right column next to the search results now contains the possibility to make dict. There is no login required and the list can be deleted with just one mouse click.
This tool, developed by Miyo Yoshikawa, uses an online interface to communicate with dict. For more information visit Miyo's place. The new system takes the amount and the quality of the reviews into account and doesn't require additional work by users.
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