Scratch

rodman: more languages are coming. I hope that answers your question.

13postures: the October release will let people create their own translations by simply editing a text file. This just the first step because it will only let you use latin characters  but it will work for what you want to achieve.

Hi,

I would gladly help translating Scratch into Danish.

Please advise.

Hi all,

Could I get source materials to the media files - help, getting started, scratch cards - to translate it into hungarian?

if there would be a web interface (<in english> < - > <in foreign language>) to those files, even if after this the files would be updated manually by some volunteers, it would make the world better... 

Unfortunately, in Hungary, 75% of people don't speak any foreign languages, this is true for most of the teachers - and since it was a "forbidden" language before 1990, most of them only speak german or russian if at all. So I can't recommend it for them without hungarian material.

The wiki site is a great idea. We are planning to set up a user-friendly wiki for support materials, and are now waiting for the system admins to have time to set it up on our server. Please let us know if you have additional suggestions about this.

Yeah, for sure it will be translated to Russian by 2008!

Your English is so good though. Better than mine for sure. I just learned English a few years ago.

Greetings! Yes, the source materials for for help are here:
http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/scratch/help/HelpSourcePNGs.zip

The source materials for Getting Started and Scratch Cards are here:
http://scratch.mit.edu/files/materials/

Please see note below...

andresmh wrote:

Yeah, for sure it will be translated to Russian by 2008!

Hooray!! Go Scratch Team!

andresmh wrote:

Your English is so good though. Better than mine for sure. I just learned English a few years ago.

Really? In my opinion, your English is great.
I lived in America and learned English there. So it's not school.
Also, I sometimes don't write commas in sentences. It's slang.    I'm not serious... 

Version 1.2 of Scratch will let anyone translate Scratch to any language that uses roman characters.

In 2008 we will release a version that will let you translate Scratch to any language, even those with that do not use roman characters like Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, etc.

Suggestion for Scratch Versions beyond Scratch 1.2:  General Scratch-System to translate not only the Block-Names and User-Interface but also the user chosen variable names and comments and finally: the ScratchR-System for this Homepage.
* Scratch 1.1 had the very useful abilizy to switch the language of the Blocks
* Scratch 1.2 we has the big advantage of beeng translateable in all aspects of blocks an User Interface fom a "easy to edit" language-textfile: So yo can have any languages (with Latin letters)
* Scratch 1.? will have not eaven Latin-Letters but also Arabic, Chinese etc.

But to reuse the programs of the international Scratch-Community for Kids (or others that do not speak englisch like me sometimes :-) ) you have to make seperate Versions with native variable names and comments (in 1.2).

1. You could have a general language switch that give you the ability to rename the Variables and Comment for the target language, save the translation in the Scratch-program an share it.
1a) It would be a very good thing if you could save such translations in the original-program at the Scratch Homepage even if it was not your programm. The original programmer could make a switch at his "myStuff"-page to say: "Your free to translate it for the international community"
2. The last missing aspect of complete internationality of scratch is the online-translation of this Homepage. For national copies of the ScratchR-System, but also for this Source-Page

If we have this we reach the target of complete internationality of Scratch !
Before that we will always have people (like my kids) that have some problems with Scratch because of the language.

andresmh wrote:

13postures: the October release will let people create their own translations by simply editing a text file. This just the first step because it will only let you use latin characters  but it will work for what you want to achieve.

Andres,

that is great.  2008 is right around the corner.  is there anything I can help while you are working on the double-byte characters?

Thanks

John

Currently version 1.1 of scratch is the release version.  Some time in early December 2007 they will release version 1.2 (it has been in beta testing for about a month).

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your interest in Scratch's language support.

I am pleased to report that with the release of Scratch 1.2, translation of the interface is now fully supported in Scratch.
For instructions on how to translate the Scratch blocks and interface to your language, please visit:
Scratch in Many Languages.

Unfortunately, this version doesn't yet include support for non-Latin character sets (Arabic, Chinese, Russian, etc).  However, we have started work on this support, and plan to have an interface that fully supports UTF-8 encoding coming soon.

Also in the works is the ability to translate the Scratch website into other languages.

Lastly, we are also working on a 'Scratch Translation' wiki, where people may discuss translations of the Scratch application, resource materials, and website into other languages.
Please stay tuned!

In the meantime, please visit the 'Scratch Translation' forum for more in depth discussion!

You can access it here: Scratch Translation Forum

Thank You!
Evelyn