Glossika-like sentences

[JustinJJ]

Hi there, does anyone know if any freely available lists on the internet which show common/useful sentences I'm a language? My aim is to get my girlfriend to record a bunch of sentences mandarin-kunminghua so I can create a glossika-like set of recorded sentences to Listen to / practise the dialect. Thx

[OneEye]

I bet your girlfriend could get in touch with Mike at Glossika and offer to collaborate with him on a Kunminghua course. I know a while back he was looking for collaborators on pretty much any language, and I don't think he's started Kunminghua yet. Then you get a course and she gets paid, 一舉兩得.

[fabiothebest]

I'm in the same situation but for another Chinese dialect. I did contact Mike, unfortunately he doesn't accept recommendations..he takes suggestions as an offense for his work..

[pross]

Have you considered ripping sentences from an existing shared anki deck? e.g. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2003820603

 

I think the world would benefit from a wikipedia version of glossika, where anyone can contribute sentence audio. While http://tatoeba.org/ is similar to this, it lacks a curated list of useful sentences, and there's no incentive/reward mechanism for contributors.

[AlexBlackman]

@Pross - That'd be a brilliant idea, though quality control may be an issue.

[imron]

Which is more or less the same problem tatoeba faces.

 

I don't think you'll get reliable data unless you have people paid to develop it.

[JustinJJ]

Thanks for the responses and sorry for the late reply. I think I'll selectively go through an anki sentence deck and cherry pick sentences from there for her to record. Cheers