I'm asking a few folks questions once in a while? May I ask you?
On my mind may be minor... But well decisions are hard for me.
I can experiment with translating my posts into most other languages thru AI. But it costs... so I'd like to experiment with one.
My writing is pretty idiomatic to American English. If I were to try to reach an under-served non English population... do you have any ideas which language might be a good choice to try?
Hindi? French? Spanish? I'd like to reach a large population that could use material aimed at adult autistics, parents, educators, employers, folks wondering if they are Neurodivergent... overlapping a great deal with ADHD.
@johnnyprofane1@actuallyautistic@actuallyadhd@askingadhd Before spending too much time and money into this, I’d suggest looking at other media that have been machine-translated, and see if they’re something you’d want to read or listen to regularly. Machine translation is very impressive, but still makes frequent mistakes; it’s nothing like reading or listening to a native speaker. Remember, too, that some pairs of languages will be served better than others: so, even if English-to-French or English-to-Spanish provided acceptable quality, English-to-Hindi might not. Since you’d be paying for translation into a language you don’t speak fluently, it might be hard to get a feel for how well or poorly the translation was carried out.
I’m not suggesting you shouldn’t do this — just sounding a note of caution.
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Agreed. The Francophone world has shrunk quite a bit in my lifetime, and seems to overlap with the Anglophone world quite a bit. I’m not sure how much of that overlap is in Africa though.
@johnnyprofane1@actuallyautistic@actuallyadhd@askingadhd Depends on your real life location imo. Where I live, I am very close to the Mexico border, and Espanol seems to be the most common secondary language where I live. I would pick a second language based on what would benifit me the most. And for you, I think to ask, which other language will be good for you to know?
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