In exchange for Name Credits we are looking for help from people interested to translate words for our upcoming game, Polyglot Pirates, a language learning game about pirates traveling the seas.

Translations
- Words
Gameplay

1. Translations

For start, we will focus on few languages:

Spanish, German, French, Russian, Chinese, Romanian.

Out of the 30 that there will be in total:

"ar","bg","cs","da","de","el","es","fi","fr","hu","id","it","ja","ko",
"nl","no","nn","nb","pl","pt","ro","ru","sv","th","tr","uk","vi","zh",
"cmn","yue","wuu","nan","hak"

As well as a total of 1000 easy to use words (eg.):

about	adv
above	adv
action	noun
activity	noun
actor	noun
actress	noun

If you want to help, join our Discord, select the roles according to the languages you speak, and contribute to the Polyglot Dictionaries.

The words_lang.csv file (where lang will the be language you know) contains translations from english. There are 1000 english words translated. Example of translations:

word	part_of_speech	english_word	sense
vineri	noun	Friday	day of the week
luni	noun	Monday	day of the week
sâmbătă	noun	Saturday	day of the week

The ask is to go through the translations and make sure they are correct. Some words in english will be translated to multiple words in the selected language and some will be wrong. Remove those rows. Example:

word	part_of_speech	english_word	sense
actor	noun	actor	person who performs in a theatrical play or film — see also actress
actriță	noun	actor	person who performs in a theatrical play or film — see also actress
făcător	noun	actor	one who acts; a doer
făcătoare	noun	actor	one who acts; a doer
participant	noun	actor	one who takes part in a situation
participantă	noun	actor	one who takes part in a situation

The first column is the word translated. The second column is the part of speech. The third column is the original word from english. The forth is the sense.

In case there are multiple translations, the same original word in english will appear in the third column. Eg. in the above translations for actor (in Romanian) only the main sense will be taken into consideration:

word	part_of_speech	english_word	sense
actor	noun	actor	person who performs in a theatrical play or film — see also actress

In case there are multiple translations that are the main sense, then both should be kept:

word	part_of_speech	english_word	sense
adresare	noun	address	act of addressing oneself to a person or group
adresă	noun	address	description of the location of a property; direction for correspondence

Rules to use when removing words:

Only keep one gender (masculine when present).
Only keep the main sense. (In case there are 2 senses or more, you can keep them only if the translation from english -> translated_language and translated_language -> english hold true)
Only keep newer words, remove archaic or old fashioned words.

All of the public data as well as the words will be located in the Polyglot Dictionaries, a free and open source repository you can contribute to.

Words

The words will come from dictionaries created from wiktionary. These dictionaries, from the table below, can be downloaded

We take about 1000 basic words to form a basic dictionary, and take translations from Wiktionary (some of the translations are bad and need to be removed):

Code	Language	Link
ar	Arabic	words_ar.csv
bg	Bulgarian	words_bg.csv
cs	Czech	words_cs.csv
da	Danish	words_da.csv
de	German	words_de.csv
el	Greek	words_el.csv
es	Spanish	words_es.csv
fi	Finnish	words_fi.csv
fr	French	words_fr.csv
hu	Hungarian	words_hu.csv
id	Indonesian	words_id.csv
it	Italian	words_it.csv
ja	Japanese	words_ja.csv
ko	Korean	words_ko.csv
nl	Dutch	words_nl.csv
no	Norwegian (generic)	words_no.csv
nn	Norwegian Nynorsk	words_nn.csv
nb	Norwegian Bokmål	words_nb.csv
pl	Polish	words_pl.csv
pt	Portuguese	words_pt.csv
ro	Romanian	words_ro.csv
ru	Russian	words_ru.csv
sv	Swedish	words_sv.csv
th	Thai	words_th.csv
tr	Turkish	words_tr.csv
uk	Ukrainian	words_uk.csv
vi	Vietnamese	words_vi.csv
zh	Chinese (generic)	words_zh.csv
cmn	Chinese (Mandarin)	words_cmn.csv
yue	Chinese (Cantonese)	words_yue.csv
wuu	Chinese (Wu)	words_wuu.csv
nan	Chinese (Min Nan / Hokkien)	words_nan.csv
hak	Chinese (Hakka)	words_hak.csv

2. Gameplay

Select Language

When the game starts, you will be able to set your base language and the language you want to learn:

Gameplay - Word match

This is an older prototype of word match - Match words to have the player move or attack in the game:

Gameplay - Hangman

Guess letter by letter from base language to target language. You can make mistakes, but if you make too many, you will have to wait until you can guess again. Every word you complete moves the ship or attacks in the game:

Gameplay - Letter Square

Find words inside a square of letters. After a while, you will get hints (this is WIP):