App Inventor interface: translation into spanish for a better understanding

I have a bunch of young students who do not speak english, and it is an added complication having to translate the messages, boxes, etc. prior to understand the functionality of the language itself.

I will be glad to translate the App Inventor interface into spanish, so that all of the students who are not fluent with english can learn to use App Inventor more easily.

Could you say me who I have to speak with in the the AI team, to achieve it.

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I will pass your offer to the MIT technical staff.

In the mean while, this web page may be of help to your Spanish speaking students:  https://sites.google.com/site/appinventormegusta/presentaciones-google-docs/bloques-de-control 

If your PC's language is set to Spanish (not English), my understanding is that at least the main controls appear in Spanish.  Are you in a multi-lingual environment?

Also Google Translate will translate most instructions from English to Spanish on the pages that describe the functions of the blocks and controls (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/support/blocks.html    for the blocks  and  http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/components/ for the controls.   I know this is not what you are talking about, but it may ameliorate your situation.

One of the guys that let you know about the possibilities for other stuff to be included in AI2 will be in touch here.

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Thanks for the offer of help.    We are planning to look at translations, but we won't get to that before the end of the summer.  At that we'll hope to set up a system where other people can contribute translation, but we're not ready to do that yet.

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I was just informed MIT is doing the background work to make translations of buttons, help advice etc. available in multiple languages within the AI2.  A prototype will be tested this Summer but 

not generally available to the community.

If all goes well with the test, sometime in the Fall, MIT hope to have a system in place for people like you and your generous offer to get involved and help/do the translations.  

This effort in internationalization and localization of Ai2 is will be an exciting improvement to AI2.  The coding required s complicated.  I've done this with Windows programs and I assure you, it is not simple.  However, once the MIT development team, flesh-out and test the system, you and others will be able to participate by providing translations in Spanish and lots of other languages.

The target for release of a version of AI2 that includes internationalization/localization iscurrently for sometime this Fall; when depends on how well the test goes. In the mean time, I hope the several suggestions provided help your students and you.

Thanks again for your offer. The developers are going to need a lot of people like you.

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Thank you very much for your quick response. Count on me whenever you need it, please.

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Hi Steve and all others,
is the translation interface done yet? I would love to help with translating the App Inventor to German as I would like to use it with my students and well their English skills are not the very best.
Is there a chance to do so?

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see this thread https://groups.google.com/d/msg/app-inventor-open-source-dev/hkOrVUGWKBc/PFjhdfN3eHkJ and contact Hossein for details

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