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Kind of crazy that it has Swahili but not Portuguese.
by confidantlake 7mo ago
Kind of crazy that it has Swahili but not Portuguese.
- george916a 7mo agoNot crazy at all. Swahili is the Lingua Franca of Africa.
- bloak 7mo agoI listened to the start of the Swahili course and it mentions that Swahili was the first one to be "commissioned", which I understand to mean that someone asked for it and paid for it specifically. It also said there was information about commissioning on the web site, but I couldn't find it. So it's a bit mysterious. Commissioning a language course might be spare change for some government agency but I don't know whether they're allowed to spend money that way. They might be forced to put it out to tender and prefer domestic bidders or something like that.
- tremarley 7mo agoI remember that somebody made a Language Transfer Portuguese course, but it was heavily criticised and never relaunched