kiswahili is language spoken by people of eastern and central africa,i think if we transalate esparanto in kiswahili we will have more esparanto speakers in africa..any one with the same idea and and support?is there different idea and y?

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313:if we transalate esparanto in kiswahili we will have more esparanto speakers in africa..

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Well to be brutally honest I'm sure English or Chinese would be more beneficial to the people of Africa, but I guess we should always give Esperanto a chance no matter what region! (and now that I think of it, Esperanto with an African accent would be "belega" )

Also, just a minor point - lernu! merely teaches Esperanto, so it's better to ask to translate Lernu!, not Esperanto (as we can see from Darkweasel's confusion ).

The Swahili translation at lernu currently stands at 4.1%. Our dictionary also needs a lot of work.

I encourage you to register as a translator if you want to help with the translation. It does no good to ask for a translation, because we rely on people who actually speak a language to do the necessary work.

You can register as a translator even if you don't speak Esperanto well, or even if you don't speak it at all. You can base your translation on existing translations in languages like English or French, whatever you speak.

An alternative is to translate the Free Esperanto Book into Swahili. The book is currently available in English, so if you speak English, you can translate it into another language. The book can then be printed and distributed free of charge to people who don't have a reliable internet connection, for offline study.

Write an e-mail to teamo@lernu.net if you want to request translation rights for the website, or if you want to receive editable copies of the Free Esperanto Book, in order to translate it into another language.

This goes for everyone here. Every lernu user who wishes to help translate the site into another language is welcome to do so. It's better to volunteer your time than to ask why a certain task hasn't been done; this is a free website, and the translations of lernu are done by volunteers, not paid staff.