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The problem with tatoeba is that the content doesn’t seem to be curated. I checked the translation of I love you in Japanese recently and more than half of the
by tasogare 7y ago
The problem with tatoeba is that the content doesn’t seem to be curated. I checked the translation of I love you in Japanese recently and more than half of the listing is hot garbage that would never be uttered by a native speaker. It’s just like these sentences where contributed by learners who just finished their first lesson.
- yorwba 7y agoJapanese is a special case, because most of the Japanese sentences come from the Tanaks corpus, which... consists of sentences written by learners of either English or Japanese who likely weren't all that qualified for the task. However, the content is actively getting curated. E.g. https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/137571 https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/137571 is a translation of "I love you." owned by a native speaker. The search form doesn't make it easy to find native-speaker translations, though. The search option to limit results to native-speaker sentences only works if you're searching in the target language. E.g. if you want usage examples for "愛": https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/search?query=%E6%84%9B&from=jpn&to=und&user=&orphans=no&unapproved=no&has_audio=&tags=&list=&native=yes&trans_filter=limit&trans_to=und&trans_link=&trans_user=&trans_orphan=&trans_unapproved=&trans_has_audio=&sort=words&sort_reverse= https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/search?query=%E6%84%9B&fro... If you're only using Tatoeba as a data source for automatic creation of course material, though, you can filter using whatever criteria you want.