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#1 2010-11-01 22:45:53
- Jeter41699
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2010-03-03
- Posts: 4
Foreign Scratchers
Hello everybody. I'm here to talk about the foreign Scratchers from other countries like Japan, Indonesia, and other places out side the English speaking countries.Now, I'm not trying to be racist but it seems that our fellow scratchers don't understand some things. It seems that they haven't gotten the idea like that you can draw things, and (no offence) everything doesn't have to bounce around. I wish there was a way to convert what they say also. I'm not trying to be offensive at all, I just wanted to see if there is a way to change it for them. I think also we should try to recognize them, and help them.
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THANKS!!!
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#2 2010-11-01 22:53:29
- scratch_yoshi
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2009-06-12
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Foreign Scratchers
Good ol' Bing translator, right here:
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/
Retired from Scratch, but just the language itself. Not the forums.
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#3 2010-11-01 22:59:02
Re: Foreign Scratchers
Hi Jeter41699,
Scratch is intended to be a diverse community where people of all different backgrounds can come to collaborate and share projects and ideas. Many of the Scratchers on this website aren't from English-speaking countries -- in fact, there are whole galleries of projects dedicated to specific languages and cultures. To you, these Scratchers are foreign, but Scratch is a global community, not an American one. I know you might not have meant any harm, but I think many "foreign" users might take offense to the idea that they just don't get Scratch the same way we do. Some of the best Scratchers I know are from other countries.
You mentioned that you want to communicate with these Scratchers, and that's great! Google Translate is a fantastic way to convert text between different languages. Just make sure you remain respectful of everyone; you might have something to teach them, but you can also learn something from them as well. 
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#4 2010-11-02 05:06:13
- Paddle2See
- Scratch Team
- Registered: 2007-10-27
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Foreign Scratchers
Also, please understand that Scratch is used in a lot of schools in other countries - often in beginning programming classes where everybody is following along with the teacher. So you might see 30 projects suddenly show up on Scratch all doing basically the same simple action, such as a bouncing ball or a talking Scratch cat. This can leave you with the impression that people from other countries only do very basic projects. But that's not necessarily the case...it's just that they often have large classrooms of kids all doing simple projects at school.
It's good that you want to help them out - go ahead and give it a try with a translator program (as scratch_yoshi suggests above) - they will probably be grateful for the feedback! But also leave the English words in your comments too as translator programs often mess up
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#5 2010-11-06 00:19:56
- Jeter41699
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2010-03-03
- Posts: 4
Re: Foreign Scratchers
fullmoon wrote:
Hi Jeter41699,
Scratch is intended to be a diverse community where people of all different backgrounds can come to collaborate and share projects and ideas. Many of the Scratchers on this website aren't from English-speaking countries -- in fact, there are whole galleries of projects dedicated to specific languages and cultures. To you, these Scratchers are foreign, but Scratch is a global community, not an American one. I know you might not have meant any harm, but I think many "foreign" users might take offense to the idea that they just don't get Scratch the same way we do. Some of the best Scratchers I know are from other countries.
You mentioned that you want to communicate with these Scratchers, and that's great! Google Translate is a fantastic way to convert text between different languages. Just make sure you remain respectful of everyone; you might have something to teach them, but you can also learn something from them as well.
Yeah totally. I seriously was not trying to offend them at all. I was just being curious and was tryng to help. Thanks for the info about google translator!
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