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Comment by bscphil

I tried to pull up a couple of books on the front page to check out what you had, and

* One of them 404ed: https://www.bilinual.com/download/30117fren-fr-en.pdf

* The other was full of problems: https://www.bilinual.com/download/16210fren-fr-en.pdf

For example, many words don't have translations at all, and those that do are often incorrect. This feels like a very rough machine translation? For example:

> et c'est surtout dans les paroisses riveraines du Saint-Laurent

You translate this

> and Ce east primarily in the · · some saint Laurence

While Google Translate gives

> and it is especially in the parishes bordering the St.Lawrence

If you're using machine translation, why not use a Google API that might give usable results at least? If that's not plausible, maybe you should try to get together a team of volunteers to manually translate these ebooks for language learners?

(I hope these suggestions are helpful, I'm not trying to be dismissive of your project.)

parent bscphil 6 years ago

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