Cainntear wrote:Cavesa wrote:German is a language I am learning, but the course is unlikely to never get finished, that is another point. I don't mind waiting, I do mind false promises.
But that's another reason the FIGS focus is so maddening to me. The people who are voting for FIGS are clearly all willing to wait, which seems to suggest they're not actually that serious, because they could have just gone out and learned the language in the meantime -- there are plenty of good resources out there that they could use (many of the paying supporters would have been able to buy the full MT course in their chosen language with what they've put into LT so far).
It leaves the proposition as ludicrous.
Reach into your pockets to pay for a course in a language chosen by people who probably won't even use it, and never actually get something that you want.
Not sure whether you are criticising me in particular. I am not complaining I didn't get German "on time". I actually did exactly what you suggest. I paid for a good quality course. And I am now beyond the level of the LT German course. As I said, I don't mind waiting. It is just stupid that a course, that has already been started and promised and written on the dashboard, gets put aside constantly by new and new projects.
I think you may have misunderstood that I completely agree with you
You are right. I actually don't think MT is worth the money, but there are so many resources for the FIGS, that you can choose the style you want, and also the price. For German or Spanish learners, there are tons of good free resources and also a lot of excellent resources under 25 euro. Good luck trying to find such a resource paradise for the Arabic or Swahili learners.
I'd be willing to wait for various courses and pay a small monthly contribution and patiently wait for any course I'd be very interested to try (Hebrew, Farsi, Lithuanian). But I am no longer convinced that a course I'd like to see will EVER be chosen, because the Introduction and Complete courses for all the romance languages will skip them. And I no longer think that even the courses I would like to contribute to despite not learning the language, such as Complete Turkish or Arabic, will EVER get done either.
I don't even understand the commissioning anymore. I thought Swahili would logically precede all the other courses and get done fast. But it doesn't look so. That might discourage future commissioners too.