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Introducing Reddit in new languages (self.blog)

submitted by jleeky[A]222252& 24 more

Hello everyone,

I’m u/jleeky from the International team at LasesReddit and I’m here to give an update on some of the work we’re doing to bring Reddit to more people around the world [cue Daft Punk song].

As we continue to grow as a platform, we want to reflect the diverse users and communities across the globe. Part of this means making Reddit’s interface (the buttons, menus, and other surfaces that you all see on the platform) available in different languages.

Starting today, Android, iOS, and Desktop users will be able to access the first phase of our product translation in German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian. We are taking an iterative approach towards supporting more languages—which means future phases will include more product coverage, more language coverage, and further refinement of our translations.

This is just the beginning.

We are still optimizing the language experience and are working to translate the core parts of Reddit that most people use every day—but we haven't caught everything. You will probably see some areas of the product that aren’t translated and you might see some awkward translations.

Please help us by leaving any feedback you have below, or reach out to us through modmail to report issues or let us know what you think! You can write to us in English or in your own language as the feedback will go directly to the translation team.

Changing your language

On Android

Go to your settings and navigate to ‘view options’ where you will find a new ‘Language’ setting.

The New Language Setting in Account Settings on Android

Once you click on this new option, you will be able to select from a list of available languages to switch the language of your Reddit interface.

Select Your Preferred Language

On Desktop

Go to your user settings and you will find the new ‘Language’ setting.

The New Language Setting on Desktop

For iOS

Go to your settings and navigate to ‘view options’ where you will find a new ‘Language’ setting.

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The New Language Setting in Account Settings on iOS

Clicking on the language setting will link you to the app-specific language setting that’s part of your OS. When prompted, tap “Open Settings”.

Go to Reddit App Specific OS Settings to Change Your Language

In the app-specific settings screen, there will be a section for “Preferred Language”. Select the language and return to the app.

The Reddit Specific OS Settings on iOS

Select Your Language on iOS

Note: For this to work, you may need to add English as a language option for your phone. (iOS Settings > General > Language & Region > Other Languages)

And that’s it! I’ll stick around to answer your questions and hear your thoughts.

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[–]thaimod 916 points917 points  (45 children)

If you ever start doing this on the website as well please can i ask you to pay special attention to NOT copy the dumb thing other websites like google do such as detecting your location and auto switching the language away from English with zero way to set it back even when you're logged in and have previously set your language preferences. This is a huge pet peeve of mine that every large company can't seem to get such a simple thing right. Google is the worse offender because they translate the word English into the local language making it impossible to switch back unless you can read that local language.

[–]CoolUsernamesTaken 63 points64 points  (8 children)

specially egregious when it translates to the wrong language. looking at you, google, recommending spanish in Brazil 눈_눈

[–]20-random-characters 23 points24 points  (0 children)

눈_눈

Korean detected. Changing autotranslate language...

[–]AskMeAboutMyGenitals -64 points-63 points  (6 children)

To be fair, Spanish is a superior language to Portugeuese. Youins should learn it, Abuelo.

[–]jleeky[S,A] 161 points162 points  (13 children)

On each platform you can select your preferred language - we will initially default users based on their browser or OS language however users will always be able to select a different language. Once you’ve selected a language we will respect that choice for that platform. The language selection is per platform so you would need to select your language preference on web & iOS/Android separately.

[–]Javbw 22 points23 points  (1 child)

As long as you are using default browser language, that should be great. That puts the power in the user’s hands.

Shops (like incase.com) autoredirect every single query to their overseas websites (incasejapan.jp) based on geolocation, which is only available in the local language (Japanese) and no way to ever stop it/pause/change. The people there can’t even fathom that there are people in Japan a) might want English descriptions, b) want to browse a site outside their region, c) access an “overseas” site, or D) read the newsletter links to new pages they send out without being auto-redirected to a black hole that 404s and dumps you to the geolocated version’s homepage that doesn’t have the information you want (so you cannot purchase a Father’s Day present for your father from overseas).

If you make regional sites, such as Reddit.jp in the future, make damn sure there is a way I can stay on the region/site I prefer (similar to Amazon - they are very good about this).

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    [–]Emnelistene 44 points45 points  (3 children)

    Thats the worst thing on fb, yt etc. I hate it

    [–]Attya3141 23 points24 points  (1 child)

    Seriously. Yt autotransation is the worst

    [–]ItalianDragon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Not surprising the least (and not because it's google).

    I'm a translator and I can answer the why thise autotranslations suck. Basically when you read something in english and translate it in your native language, you immediately take into account all the peculiarities of both languages.

    Automated translation on the other hand works by splicing the sentence into blocks and translating these blocks separatedly beforw stitching them back together to form a sentence. Said sentence is formed without a care in the world for the peculiarities of the source and target language.

    This is why, unless the algorithm has been specifically trained to detect that, if you say "You nailed it !" and set the subtitles to French it'd translate it as "Tu l'as cloué !". The meaning of the french sentence is... "You nailed it" as in "You nailed it to the door". Any translator worth his salt would tell you that the proper translation is "T'as réussi !/T'as tout compris !" among several possibilities depending from the context.

    It's a subtlety an algorithm lacks to make proper translations and that's why 100% automatee translations will always suck.

    [–]michaelfri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Don't forget about AliExpress. Their autotranslation, at least in my language, is horrible and it turns the already iffy chinglish in the product description into hilarious nonsense. The worst part is that even though I have cookies enabled, it changes back to my local language every time I log in.

    [–]fbcpck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    La vieja pero buena

    [–]1OWI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Gotta get that revenue

    [–]Rikudou_Sage 15 points16 points  (1 child)

    Why not just default to English and put a banner there saying "Hey, Reddit is also in language X! Do you want to switch?".

    For some weird reasons many websites default to French for me and outside "oui" and "voulez-vous couche avec moi" I don't know anything in French. I hate language auto detection.

    [–]Mormegil81 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    I selected english on my android app, but it still keeps randomly switching back to german after a while - when I look in the settings it is still set to english. Restarting the app sets it back to english, but after a while it will switch back to german again - that's just anoying.

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      [–]fgmenth 36 points37 points  (8 children)

      Yeah you don't want it to turn Spanish all of a sudden

      [–]ihavetenfingers 10 points11 points  (0 children)

      Dont worry about that. Its not like reddit doesnt have a great track record with removing users preferences lol

      [–]Bwuk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

      Try booking a holiday whilst in Greece and your air carrier now only sending you emails in Greek. I'm learning, but it's rudimentary at best. No way to change the language I get the emails in. Ryanair.... looking at you!

      [–]Kagia001 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      PLEASE this. Today, after over year of constant annoyance I have at least managed to stop YouTube from automatically turning on subtitles. I had to turn my phone to English just to make it stop translating titles. Fuck that shit

      [–]hawkwings 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      I recently discovered that if a web page has no text on it, Google Chrome may think that it is using the Welsh language. I setup a web page for personal use so I didn't need a description of it. It had pictures and file names.

      [–]srikarjam 4 points5 points  (1 child)

      I find Facebook to be the worst offender in this compared to Google

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        [–]vaevictis21 51 points52 points  (11 children)

        can we contribute for providing translations in our language by any chance :)

        [–]jleeky[S,A] 72 points73 points  (10 children)

        We are currently not open for crowdsourced translation. However, you can send us a message here if you want to point out anything that needs a better translation.

        [–]ADMINlSTRAT0R 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        I'm saving that link for the eventual ridiculous translation of words in my native language.

        [–]jedberg 32 points33 points  (8 children)

        Why not? We used to offer the Reddit UI in 30+ languages, all of it crowdsourced. Why not keep doing that?

        [–]ItsJustJames 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        Because bilingual users are not the same as trained linguists.

        [–]_BreakingGood_ 2 points3 points  (5 children)

        Probably a lot of work to manage, meanwhile they can just hire people

        [–]jedberg 3 points4 points  (4 children)

        It’s actually not that hard to manage. You have to build the same management software either way.

        [–]exponant 13 points14 points  (2 children)

        It's a lot harder to manage. If you hire someone to do it, they're not going to troll and put intentionally wrong translations in. They're not going to make good faith efforts that are grammatically incorrect. They're not going to try and be clever and use Google Translate and pretend they know the language. They're just going to translate it properly.

        [–]_BreakingGood_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        Harder to manage than just hiring a professional translator and telling them to get to it, I mean.

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          [–]post_break 63 points64 points  (72 children)

          Does this allow translating of say a german subreddit to english?

          [–]jleeky[S,A] 127 points128 points  (65 children)

          No, we just translated the product UI for now. We are exploring translating others things on Reddit down the road.

          [–]Poopyman80 33 points34 points  (0 children)

          Make sure any auto translation is opt-IN.
          Nothing should ever be opt-OUT.
          I say this as someone who has english as third language but who uses it as lingua franca.
          The lingua franca should be the default

          [–]Alaira314 7 points8 points  (0 children)

          We are exploring translating others things on Reddit down the road.

          Bad idea. Can you imagine the misunderstandings and arguments that would spring out of a mistranslated comment? How would mods handle that, when the words they're seeing in their native language might not match the words you're seeing in your native language, and both are different from the words the original poster typed? Not to mention how uncomfortable it is to me to imagine words I didn't write being attached to my name. Nuance can be very subtle, and I often choose my wording extremely carefully to ensure that I'm saying what I mean to say and not a neighboring concept that's offensive, bigoted, or maybe just incorrect. For example, consider how offensive it is in US english to call someone a black vs a black person. I can control that wording when I'm writing in english, but if I originally wrote in spanish or french and was translated to english, I might come off as racist when what I'd actually written was perfectly respectful...in my own language.

          [–]imafraidofmuricans 20 points21 points  (4 children)

          DO NOT. I don't want a bunch of auto-translated Americans misunderstanding and ruining other non-English subs because they completely misunderstood what is translated.

          Neither do I want anything translated from or to English. EVER. E V E R.

          [–]PixxlMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          Yes yes yes! Google and many other companies have fucked up so hard on this.

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            [–]imafraidofmuricans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Bowie song, it's good, look it up.

            There is a difference between active translation (I click a button to translate this comment) vs automatic (the comments are translated whether you want to or not). With the second people will not realize it is translated, and things will get very annoying.

            Also people are free to comment where ever they want.

            Go post woodworking to /r/food. How would that go? Post porn to /r/dataisbeautiful? If you are incapable of understanding how subreddits work, I can't help you.

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              [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

              Why do you respond to lots of stuff, but never acknowledge the immense amount of negative feedback on the new mobile video player? r/redditmobile is absolutely filled with people who hate it. Nobody likes it. And yet it’s crickets from reddit about it. The least you could do is explain why you won’t listen to all the users who think it is garbage emulating tiktok and it’s even doing that extremely poorly.

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                [–]Kagia001 43 points44 points  (16 children)

                The way I read it, it just translates stuff like "user profile" and "comment" to other languages. I don't see how that's supposed to segment people.

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                  [–]Kagia001 46 points47 points  (1 child)

                  You do know that there already are a bunch of large subreddits in other languages than English? Largest I could find is r/Brasil with 650k subs. That's nothing new, and this won't change anything.

                  [–]flwombat 12 points13 points  (1 child)

                  It’s a fair misunderstanding but folks who understand both English and another language already have a choice to post in English-language or non-English-language subs. If this has an effect, it might be to draw more users who don’t understand English at all (or only a little) to posting in their other languages more often.

                  [–]dgmilo8085 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                  This is exactly what I was speaking of. Thank you

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                    [–]Kagia001 36 points37 points  (3 children)

                    Oh no boo hoo how DARE people who don't speak English use reddit

                    [–]-pooping 12 points13 points  (2 children)

                    Bare vent, snart er alt på Reddit skrevet på norsk!

                    [–]floreen 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                    Sjovt, kunne ligeså godt være dansk

                    [–]Rikudou_Sage 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                    You know that speaking other languages is not completely unintelligible, right? It just means you don't understand the language. And that you speak only one language is your fault, not ours. I'm in subreddits that are in English and I'm in subreddits that are in my language and some that are in different languages.

                    [–]trebmald 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                    You do realize that English isn't the default language for the world, n'est-ce pas? That some folks might not only appreciate an interface in their own language but actually, be able to navigate the site better in a language they understand. You know what, maybe you're right. Fuck being decent if it's going to cause you some minor inconvenience. You've just got to love that attitude.

                    [–]dgmilo8085 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                    Please see my edit above, it seems I may have been misunderstood or wasn't clear in what I was trying to say.

                    [–]PapaStoner 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                    Kk, got it. Speak White.

                    [–]dgmilo8085 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                    KK got it, you're just as big of a self-centered douche as you portray me to be. Please see the edit to my comment to understand what I meant.

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                      [–]serioussham 13 points14 points  (1 child)

                      You're aware that people already post in their local subs in their respective languages, right? And most of those are also fluent in English since, y'know, this is reddit.

                      [–]dgmilo8085 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      See edit…

                      [–]karmabaiter 38 points39 points  (2 children)

                      it is defiantly going to suck for us English only speakers

                      The irony...

                      [–]cleeder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                      It burns!

                      [–]dgmilo8085 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      Oh the douchebag...

                      [–]cheetahound 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      if they have the capability of translating subreddit posts then that will happen i guess but its not the case here, its just translating normal interface only

                      [–]trebmald 1 point2 points  (4 children)

                      À votre avis, à quel point Reddit est-il nul pour ceux qui ne parlent pas du tout anglais?

                      [–]dgmilo8085 1 point2 points  (3 children)

                      Je peux imaginer que reddit ne soit pas très accueillant pour quelqu'un qui ne parle pas anglais. Je suis ravi qu'il étende désormais la capacité de communication croisée.

                      [–]trebmald 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                      Votre formulation originale semblait indiquer que vous étiez contre l'utilisation de langues autres que l'anglais sur Reddit. Cela m'a un peu frotté dans le mauvais sens. Je suis désolé pour le malentendu.

                      [–]dgmilo8085 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                      À en juger par la vague de votes négatifs, beaucoup de gens pensaient que c'était mon intention. C'est pourquoi j'ai ajouté mon édition pour essayer de clarifier ce que je disais. Merci de votre compréhension.

                      [–]trebmald 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      Les problèmes de communication arrivent aux meilleurs d'entre nous. Mon pays est bilingue (anglais/français), et la famille de mon père parle une troisième langue (anishnabeg). Parfois, je suis surpris lorsque nous parvenons à communiquer avec succès.

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                        [–]DonUdo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                        All of reddit is yours - except r/de.

                        Attempt no visit there.

                        [–]matinthebox 10 points11 points  (2 children)

                        you can't translate r/ich_iel

                        don't even try

                        [–]floreen 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                        The funny thing about r/ich_iel is, that half of the content already are English phrases translatetd literally to German (where they make no sense to somebody not knowing the original)

                        [–]DenLaengstenHat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Weiter Maimais pfostieren

                        [–]Ebi5000 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                        Please no that is such a shitty feature on youtube.

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                          [–]Samiel_Fronsac 19 points20 points  (3 children)

                          For all that is holy and pure, this thing is bugged as hell. Sometimes the app is in the device language, Portuguese, others in my preferred language, English and back and forth until I close the app.

                          Now it got worse.

                          No matter what settings I choose, it changes from one thing to the next. I scroll through a post to with the app in English, next post it has changed to Portuguese. It's doing this at random.

                          [–]jleeky[S] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

                          Thanks for reporting - can I ask if you're using the iOS or Android app?

                          [–]Samiel_Fronsac 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                          Hello. Android app.

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                            [–]Uristqwerty 37 points38 points  (4 children)

                            Here's a positively ancient language bug: "en-ca" translates the old.reddit.com settings page's "show post flair" checkbox as a second "show user flair". Since there are few (if any?) differences between en-ca and en-us, presumably that was a simple copy-paste error for a language that I'd be surprised if many people use in the first place, especially nowadays with so many users moved to the redesign and apps.

                            If nobody else has noticed, then it's probably not worth the time to fix, but I'm not going to pass up the first time in years that it's actually slightly relevant to point out. If nothing else, so that others are aware of it.

                            [–]jedberg 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                            En-ca was specially added because people kept bitching that we spelled color wrong. :)

                            [–]JakeK9999999 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                            Because colour is an easy worddddd ;)

                            [–]zeantsoi[A] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                            Imma fix this for ya 😁

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                              [–]Zirael_Swallow 34 points35 points  (8 children)

                              I'm German, but I understand english just fine. I use it more in my daily life than german. [Insert people murdering me for a typo here]

                              I've been dealing with absolutly massacred 'translations' (i.e. worse than google translate) for a few weeks now. So please: can we still just stick to english if we want to? I don't need forced german where it translates 'cancel' to 'stornieren' instead of 'abbrechen'.

                              [–]meldorq 18 points19 points  (5 children)

                              My UI has been randomly alternating between German and English lately, even though my chosen reddit language is English on a German phone.

                              "Refresh" becomes "Aktualisieren", but not for long. One refresh and refresh is called refresh again.

                              "Promoted" becomes "Promotet", then "Gesponsort". I'm still waiting for "promoviert" or "promotionalisiert".

                              It's funny but mildly irritating.

                              [–]jleeky[S] 15 points16 points  (3 children)

                              Thanks for reporting - can I ask what platform you're on? Currently are some strings in German but others are in English? Thanks for clarifying.

                              [–]meldorq 6 points7 points  (1 child)

                              I use the Reddit app on Android 10 (MIUI)

                              Right now the UI is completely in English. I didn't keep track so I can't really say when the last time was when parts were German.

                              Edit: apparently scrolling down the feed for some time pulls up German UI items. Using the home button or other links restores English UI.

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                                [–]Zirael_Swallow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                                Yeah, and randomly translated titles also have been flying around here for a bit. I hate it.

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                                  [–]babygrenade 75 points76 points  (19 children)

                                  I changed my language to Portugese.

                                  I don't understand Portugese and can't figure out how to change it back.

                                  [–]Baroness_Bear[A] 180 points181 points  (13 children)

                                  É fácil! Só ir até suas configurações de usuário e selecionar Inglês. E tudo certo!

                                  [–]PerjorativeWokeness -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

                                  While funny, that's not really helping them, is it? They don't understand Portuguese. :-)

                                  The issue here is that if you change this accidentally, it's hard to resolve it because while I can figure out that "Inglês" is probably English, I'd have a hard time choosing between 英语, 西班牙语 and 荷兰语 if I accidentally set my language to Chinese.

                                  Edit wow, downvoted for giving an honest opinion about user interfaces.

                                  [–]ilawon -45 points-44 points  (10 children)

                                  Usuário? eww.

                                  If that's what you call portuguese, I have a feature request: don't call that portuguese and only set it as default from portuguese speakers from brazil. The language might be the same but some words and expressions look really out of place and may not make much sense.

                                  edit: just saw this. ;)

                                  [–]nandemo 13 points14 points  (5 children)

                                  Salty much?

                                  For the non-Portuguese speakers, imagine a Brit claiming that "elevator" or "truck" shouldn't be called English.

                                  [–]ilawon -7 points-6 points  (4 children)

                                  There are different flavors of portuguese and they are different enough to warrant a differentiation.

                                  Would you like to have all books in Brazil suddenly appear in European Portuguese?

                                  There would be a revolt!

                                  [–]nandemo 6 points7 points  (2 children)

                                  If that's the issue then you could just have requested an European Portuguese version. Instead you said "don't call it Portuguese".

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                                    [–]romaselli 3 points4 points  (3 children)

                                    Mas cê tá brabo?

                                    [–]PerjorativeWokeness 3 points4 points  (2 children)

                                    The point is that PT-PT and PT-BR use a lot of different expressions. Calling it all just Portuguese is going to rub some people the wrong way.

                                    They're not saying you can't call it Portuguese, but Portuguese (BR) and Portuguese (PT) should probably be 2 different options.

                                    And yes, 220+ million PT-BR speakers vs 10-12 million PT-PT speakers means it's probably going to be PT-BR.

                                    [–]romaselli 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                                    It's really not that different and Portuguese people can understand Portuguese from Brazil just fine, which is why most websites don't bother. Some people are just salty that their variant is not the default anymore, it's kind of like some UK people screaming at the clouds that people don't spell color with a U or traveler with two Ls...And in the case of Portugal vs Brazil these salty comments will often have undertones of xenophobia/racism. It's the same language, one country's variant is not better than the other, get over it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                                    [–]PerjorativeWokeness -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                                    Just the fact that there are a bunch of terms that are just different in PT-PT and PT-BR (Download/Baixar, Utilizador/Usuario, gravar/salvar, etc) is enough reason.

                                    Yes, the Portuguese understand PT-BR well enough to use sites in PT-BR, but it can still be confusing.

                                    Just like the other way round would be. (What would you fill out for “Apelido”?

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                                      [–]matinthebox 10 points11 points  (1 child)

                                      Nossa, nossa, assim você me mata, ai, se eu te pego, Ai, ai, se eu te pego,

                                      delícia, delícia, assim você me mata Ai, se eu te pego, ai, ai, se eu te pego

                                      Sábado na balada a galera começou a dançar E passou a menina mais linda, tomei coragem e comecei a falar

                                      Nossa, nossa, assim você me mata, ai, se eu te pego Ai, ai, se eu te pego, delícia, delicia, assim você me mata Ai, se eu te pego, ai, ai, se eu te pego

                                      Sábado na balada a galera começou a dançar E passou a menina mais linda, tomei coragem e comecei a falar

                                      assim você me mata, ai, se eu te pego Ai, ai, se eu te pego, delícia, delicia, assim você me mata Ai, se eu te pego, ai, ai, se eu te pego Nossa, nossa, assim você me mata, ai, se eu te pego Ai, ai, se eu te pego, delícia, delicia, assim você me mata Ai, se eu te pego, ai, ai, se eu te pego [Saída] Ai, ai, se eu te pego

                                      [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                                      kkkkkkkk vsf (usa o máximo de gírias pra ficar tudo cagado e zuado pra quem for traduzir)

                                      [–]viper_in_the_grass 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                                      Ai, foda-se, mudar pra quê!? Deixa tar, carago! Assim tá perfeito!

                                      [–]dylan 19 points20 points  (0 children)

                                      você já tentou desligá-lo e ligá-lo novamente?

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                                        [–]DemonicDevice[🍰] 115 points116 points  (6 children)

                                        Wait a second, I remember seeing a reddit page entirely in Spanish like 5 years ago

                                        [–]Bardfinn 96 points97 points  (1 child)

                                        From the Museum of Reddit.

                                        (Reddit crowdsourced translations of the interface many, many years ago.)

                                        [–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

                                        I like how this is funny again, after 10 years.

                                        [–]MouthJaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                        We've been rickrolled there too

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                                          [–]TheOnlyFallenCookie 61 points62 points  (13 children)

                                          Ich werde nicht lügen, die Deutsche Übersetzung ist nicht wirklich gut geworden

                                          [–]Baroness_Bear[A] 39 points40 points  (8 children)

                                          Du kannst Feedback zur Übersetzung hier einreichen. Wir sind noch immer in der Beta-Phase und wir verfeinern und verbessern die Übersetzung ständig.

                                          [–]TheOnlyFallenCookie 15 points16 points  (0 children)

                                          Vielen Dank

                                          [–]addicted_to_coffee -18 points-17 points  (6 children)

                                          Is this machine translated? I just had a look at the German translation and it seems awfully clunky and unnatural.

                                          Edit: Mir geht es vor allem um die Übersetzung der Seite, nicht so sehr im den Kommentar hier.

                                          [–]Lord_of_Hedgehogs 19 points20 points  (2 children)

                                          It reads like a sentence written by a native speaker, there's nothing clunky or unnatural about it.

                                          Source: native german

                                          [–]Dareptor 8 points9 points  (1 child)

                                          I think it’s the word order / train of thought that seems a bit off, or rather stemming from English.

                                          und wir verfeinern und verbessern die Übersetzung ständig.

                                          Liest sich fast als wäre es eine 1 zu 1 Übersetzung von “and we’re refining and improving the translation constantly.”

                                          Im Deutschen hätte ich eher etwas erwartet wie “und wir sind stetig bemüht die Übersetzungen zu verbessern.”

                                          [–]matinthebox 12 points13 points  (0 children)

                                          If it is machine translated then it is perfectly machine translated.

                                          [–]wreeum 8 points9 points  (1 child)

                                          Maybe if you're not a German speaker you shouldn't step in? Google translations are rarely perfect, leave these questions for native speakers.

                                          [–]addicted_to_coffee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                                          I am a native German speaker. Why else would l think that the German translation of the site feels unnatural?

                                          [–]d_extrum 3 points4 points  (2 children)

                                          Sag’s wie es ist. Sie ist purer Abfall.

                                          [–]TheOnlyFallenCookie 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                                          Man hätte die Deutsche Reddit Kultur mit einbeziehen sollen. Und dadurch Sachen wie Hoch/Runter Wähli anstatt "Abstimmung"

                                          [–]d_extrum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                          Hat man ne Zeit lang gemacht. Dann hat r/Ich_Iel es mit bekommen und es zu Tode gememed hahahha

                                          [–]bonyponyride 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                          It's not working. You broke it.

                                          [–]UltraGaren 40 points41 points  (5 children)

                                          Will it be European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, or both?

                                          [–]Togapr33[A] 39 points40 points  (3 children)

                                          Both!

                                          [–]Not_a_fucking_wizard 13 points14 points  (2 children)

                                          Thank you! Very few websites bother doing this, even Google doesn't.

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                                            [–]Not_a_fucking_wizard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                            They are very similar, it's a bit like comparing English from US and English from the UK but with some differences in grammar, words and pronunciation, it's easy to understand each other but at the same time it's very easy to spot which language is which.

                                            Honestly it's not a big problem for websites like Reddit but it gets annoying with translation tools like Google's where the Portuguese is from Brazil and not from Portugal, or when you do a search and you get Brazilian websites instead of Portuguese which could be a problem if shopping.

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                                              [–]jackaline 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                                              The initial rollout of this should really have focusing on adding a translate toggle on comments.

                                              Once you see where and when people are using it, you have sample comments for testing the autodetection and can test whether it would work or not without a full rollout.

                                              If you are hoping this will expand to new markets, this is not going to work. For one, subreddit names have already been reserved and already enforce with moderators who have a localized bias. This also means the subreddit names that could be localized, who have been snatched up in an environment where the international markets don't care. But there are subreddit names you can't localize, and I seriously doubt Reddit is about to get the common sense to begin allowing duplicate subreddit names with a separate unique identifier, even though that would be what you would expect where these indeed "communities" as opposed to keywords for subjects and memes of interest.

                                              [–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

                                              Thanks for this. I really like that Reddit has a Latin language option, but the actual implementation seems pretty scuffed.

                                              Are you planning to revisit? Definitely check out r/latin if you do, they (and I) would love to help out and improve it.

                                              [–]tumultuousness[🍰] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                              An issue that I witnessed someone run into two weeks ago: The language they chose in the redesign does not tie into the language on the old design - so their inbox was in a language that they couldn't change (because the inbox is like a redesign skin on the old design inbox). Any idea on if those two could be linked so people on the redesign might not have to deal with that?

                                              [–]Kingsolomanhere 51 points52 points  (8 children)

                                              Just wait for it, someone will be requesting Klingon

                                              [–]Bardfinn 11 points12 points  (6 children)

                                              gelgHbe' tlhlnganpu'.

                                              [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (5 children)

                                              ok now in R'lyehian

                                              [–]Bardfinn 7 points8 points  (4 children)

                                              tlhlngan batlHa'

                                              means "No Worries"

                                              for the rest of your days!

                                              [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (2 children)

                                              sanity-free,

                                              philosophy,

                                              tlhlngan batlHa'!

                                              [–]Bardfinn 7 points8 points  (1 child)

                                              tlhInganquvDatIchDI' vanglu'taHvISquvchavbe'lu'.

                                              ("When you insult a Klingon's honor, one accomplishes nothing of merit")

                                              [–]bad_at_hearthstone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                              hey, that’s still Klingon

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                                                [–]Imborednow 7 points8 points  (3 children)

                                                Wait, hasn't reddit supported multiple languages for years? I know I've seen people ask for help changing the language back to English after switching accidentally.

                                                [–]mothmvn 13 points14 points  (0 children)

                                                Old Reddit supports many, many languages. New Reddit (introduced in 2018, and the starting point for most new users) had no localisation at all until now.

                                                Fun fact: Changing your Old Reddit language to something unsupported on New Reddit sets New Reddit to English... But your Inbox gets to be in Russian/Japanese/etc. Just your Inbox.

                                                [–]roionsteroids 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                                https://crowdin.com/project/reddit

                                                Yeah.

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                                                  [–]leolameu95 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                                                  That's nice, just make sure it will stay in the language I've selected. Several times it was reset to my phone language by itself

                                                  [–]emcee_gee 15 points16 points  (5 children)

                                                  This is great -- more languages = more access for more people, which is always a good thing.

                                                  However, one (likely unintended) consequence of the UI traditionally being English-only is that the vast majority of content on the platform is also written in English, enabling all users to communicate directly with one another by putting up a road block for people who don't understand English. Reddit is what it is in large part because of the globally interconnected nature of its community. As that community is now likely to grow among people who don't understand English, is there a plan for how to maintain some semblance of barrier-free communication across the entire user base?

                                                  [–]Ebi5000 1 point2 points  (3 children)

                                                  That is a stupid idea, youtube tried it and the end product are the forced machine translation of titles.

                                                  It is one of the feature that sound good for some monolingual speaker, but is impossible to implement.

                                                  Btw. there exist a lingua franca in the world that is called "english" I heard quiet a lot of people speak it.

                                                  [–]dontTHROWnarwhals -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                                                  I actually like the machine translated titles on YouTube. I can't read Chinese but I can understand it and it makes it easier to pick videos to watch.

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                                                    [–]byParallax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                                                    I believe work is being done in that regard, notably with this program

                                                    [–]jelvinjs7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                                    It better become available in Klingon or Quenya, or else what’s the point?

                                                    [–]redditmixer 5 points6 points  (3 children)

                                                    Thank you for adding this!!! This will help the international users! I love this! Thank you for everything you have done! ❤️❤️❤️

                                                    [–]imafraidofmuricans -1 points0 points  (2 children)

                                                    Hi, am international users.

                                                    I fucking hate translated UIs, because its always shitty translations and I understand the English better. I know it's hard for English speakers to grasp but most of us are a little smarter and can understand multiple languages.

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                                                      [–]imafraidofmuricans -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                                                      It seems hard for you to grasp that I am speaking on behalf of exactly that. Reddit and English speakers do NOT speak for everyone, and they do NOT know what is best for us.

                                                      Therefore, forced translations that you have to goddamn fight to turn off is not a good idea. Youtube tried this, where they started translating video titles.

                                                      That meant I got to choose between seeing the titles of English videos in Swedish, or Swedish videos in English. Because the only option is always "Do you speak X language or Y". But I speak both, I want both.

                                                      Have you asked any non-English speakers? Or did you just.. decide to speak for a group you aren't even part of?

                                                      [–]flaim 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                                                      Will this eventually include the ability to filter out subreddits that aren't in the preferred language?

                                                      [–]imafraidofmuricans 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                                      If you start auto-translating posts I'm out. I fucking hate that. I know English, and if I have English set I don't want Swedish translated to English either. I can speak both. It's goddamn annoying.

                                                      [–]Godspiral 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                                      Instead or in addition to translation, could users, and subreddits , select multiple languages, as a way to find alternate language content?

                                                      [–]HideHideHidden 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                                      I hear people on your team over there like to wear black. What are your personal thoughts on supporting the pirate language??

                                                      [–]reallyweirdperson 31 points32 points  (5 children)

                                                      Can we have pirate speak? I feel that pirates are a seriously under-represented group on here.

                                                      [–]ForeignDevil 15 points16 points  (0 children)

                                                      Good news, it's already available on the website version as "Arrrrrrrr! [pir]". Not sure if mobile apps support it.

                                                      [–]sleeplessorion 4 points5 points  (2 children)

                                                      Isn’t there a website that does this? I feel like Facebook or Google had “pirate” as a language option at one point.

                                                      [–]zelman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                                      Facebook did. I think they got rid of it because I don’t remember deselecting it.

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                                                        [–]knellbell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                                        Please make a european-only version that filters out all US-related posts about politics and pickup trucks

                                                        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                                        I went to check it out, and the text have the same colour as the text background

                                                        [–]Jay33az 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                                        CHANGE THE PLAYER ON IOS APP GODDAMN, EITHER I CANT SEE THE VID I CLICKED ON, OR I CANT GO ON IN MY FEED, INSTEAD I GET DRAGGED TO RANDOM VIDEOS OF SUBS IM NOT FOLOWING. IS THIS TIKTOK? So many bugs, so less care.

                                                        [–]bobthe3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                                        holy shit. the video player is fackin trash

                                                        [–]_jcfb_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                                        This is awesome. As a portuguese, thank you for also supporting european portuguese, few are the websites that have both variants.

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                                                          [–]byParallax 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                                          Probably later down the line I'm guessing

                                                          [–]steel_for_humans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                                          I have a question about the other option described here.

                                                          Your country setting is nonpublic account information that Reddit
                                                          will use to provide you with a customized experience based on your
                                                          location. It may also affect the content we are able to display.

                                                          What is the deal with that? Is Reddit going to serve region locked material now? I hate it on VODs and the like.

                                                          [–]FlimsyConnection9790 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                                          Why not? We used to offer the Reddit UI in 30+ languages, all of it crowdsourced. Why not keep doing that?

                                                          [–]lGoTNoAiMBoT 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                                                          Can you introduce a new video player???

                                                          [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                                                          Merci Reddit !

                                                          [–]NickWoW1000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                                                          Nice

                                                          [–]pneis1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                                          New languages? Who made them!

                                                          [–]rydan -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                                                          So I realize this is just the app content and not user generated content but are there plans to start translating comments and posts? And if you do that what protections will there be from mods or admins issuing bans for violating content where that violation is due to the translation (e.g. a word in English that is normal English speech turns into a slur or insult in another language).

                                                          [–]BrundleBee -1 points0 points  (2 children)

                                                          Great. When are you going to cap the number of subreddits a user can moderate and put an end to the misinformation cartel that is controlling the discourse on reddit?

                                                          [–]imafraidofmuricans 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                                                          When are you going to cap the number of subreddits a user can moderate

                                                          Why don't you just create your own?

                                                          The free market will fix it. Riiiiiight?

                                                          [–]googlyeyes88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                                          ..THE ADMIN OF REDDIT IS USING LIGHT MODE LIKE A HECKIN NOOB!

                                                          [–]viper_in_the_grass -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

                                                          Speaking of languages, you know what would be great? If you stopped censoring words that are perfectly innocuous in some languages because americans think they're bad.

                                                          [–]Marcoscb -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                                                          This is a fantastic step AS LONG AS:

                                                          1) You use exclusively professional human translators and not crowdsourced or :shudder: machine translation, and

                                                          2) You never, ever go the Google way and start automatically translating user content.

                                                          Otherwise, kudos!

                                                          [–]riiga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                                          But reddit is already translated to many different languages, just use old.reddit!

                                                          [–]cn0MMnb -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

                                                          Is that why you spammed me with DMs the last couple weeks to follow new subreddits and being a "founding member". Ugh. Just fix your video player and leave me alone.

                                                          [–]Needleroozer -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

                                                          You have to bring reddit to more people around the world because you're losing your existing followers left and right, mostly because this place is a cesspool but also because anybody who mentions anything the least bit critical gets a Perma ban. Oh, and fuck Tencent & the CCP while I'm at it.

                                                          [–]manofsleep -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

                                                          Will /r/all still be everything? That’s kind Reddit’s thing. I don’t mind if I can’t read or understand it.

                                                          [–]DepressionDokkebi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                                          Plans for Korean or Japanese?

                                                          [–]TheMusicArchivist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                                                          I hope so, but they'll probably do Mandarin first and call it 'Chinese' despite it being blocked in PRC and Cantonese being a more widespread language on reddit.

                                                          [–]Ketchup901 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                                                          Um so what has actually changed? There have been options to change your language since I joined this site.

                                                          [–]DrasticPegasus -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                                                          Off-topic, but can we please have a functioning video player?

                                                          The current one SUCKS

                                                          [–]CT-96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                                          I just realized that I can't view replies to my comments on posts with the new video player using notifications. The option to open the comments doesn't work. You would think that it would default to going to the comments.

                                                          [–]BadGamer_67 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

                                                          can't see where I asked

                                                          [–]bluewhite185 -15 points-14 points  (6 children)

                                                          Please just let me handle my reddit in English. I dont have any interest in a German version. I am here to learn more English. And the German stuff is not funny at all. Not interested.

                                                          [–]Redditer_54 -4 points-3 points  (5 children)

                                                          But. What if you are a German person who would like to use reddit :/

                                                          [–]imafraidofmuricans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                                          Do you think those of us who aren't English just sit here.. what? Confused about what the words "reply", "save" and "cancel" means?

                                                          [–]bluewhite185 -3 points-2 points  (3 children)

                                                          If you dont speak English you dont have any idea reddit exists anyway. So whats the point? Edit: reddit is not only the language but its also a cultural thing. one cannot translate that.

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                                                            [–]bluewhite185 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                                                            And this works quite well right? So why change it.

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                                                              [–]Poop_On_A_Loop -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                                                              When will you guys stop supporting Communist China and interfering in elections across the world?

                                                              [–]LUCKFEDDIT -44 points-43 points  (3 children)

                                                              It seriously took you clowns 16 years to add different interface languages?

                                                              [–]babygrenade 7 points8 points  (1 child)

                                                              I think this is just for New Reddit. Old Reddit has more language preferences.

                                                              [–]a_latvian_potato 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                                                              One more reason to use the Old Reddit, I suppose

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                                                                [–]maaneeack -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                                                                Does this fix the name for r/all to r/some?

                                                                [–]calimio6 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

                                                                What took you so long? Seems like a logical decision and even more taking into account how old reddit is.

                                                                [–]LUCKFEDDIT -36 points-35 points  (3 children)

                                                                What about Mandarin for your Chinese overlords?

                                                                [–]someone-elsewhere 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                                                                我们允许在防火墙之外的公民被雇用。他们必须只发布有关中国的重要信息，并且必须用英文发布以更好地传播我们的指示

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                                                                edit. use google translate...

                                                                [–]LUCKFEDDIT 6 points7 points  (1 child)

                                                                动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门

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