I speak a *decent* amount of Esperanto and decided to give using Scratch in Esperanto a shot. More than half of the site isn't translated and a good portion of the translated part looks like it was run through Google Translate (And Google Translate for Esperanto is significantly worse than it is for other languages). I understand that Esperanto is a constructed language and that most people who speak it have a different language to use Scratch in, but this is remarkably horrible. Why even have it if it's not going to be good?

(I mean no offense with this post.)

Edit: I'm not confident enough to help with fixing the translation if anyone's going to suggest that

CellularData wrote:

I speak a *decent* amount of Esperanto and decided to give using Scratch in Esperanto a shot. More than half of the site isn't translated and a good portion of the translated part looks like it was run through Google Translate (And Google Translate for Esperanto is significantly worse than it is for other languages). I understand that Esperanto is a constructed language and that most people who speak it have a different language to use Scratch in, but this is remarkably horrible. Why even have it if it's not going to be good?

(I mean no offense with this post.)

Edit: I'm not confident enough to help with fixing the translation if anyone's going to suggest that

I just think that whenever someone needs/wants to know a different language or needs to translate something, then I don't think that anyone should use Google Translate. The translations are either inaccurate or the translations aren't even there, which makes it really tough to use a site that's not in your language. In the end, you're better off just learning the entire language.

I think Scratch has a long way to go with it's translations because of this reason. In the Translating Scratch forum I have already offered to help with the Arabic translations once I get better at it.

But for the Esperanto translation, I think some community outreach could be useful.

Maybe you can't fix it all, but since you are noticing mistakes, you should be able to at least improve on some of it?