🌍 Looking for native speakers to review translations (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and more)

[pixari]

OpenTodo is translated into English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and, since this week, Simplified Chinese (简体中文). Japanese and Arabic (with a right-to-left layout) come after 1.0.

I don't speak most of these languages, so I'm looking for native speakers who can review the translations. Not translate from scratch: check that what's there reads naturally, uses the words people actually use in task apps, and fits on the screen.

Which languages

• Simplified Chinese (简体中文): shipped, not yet reviewed by a native speaker. Highest priority.
• Japanese (日本語) and Arabic (العربية): coming after 1.0 (#884, #885). If you'd review them, say so now and I'll ping you when there's something to look at.
• German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: a second pair of eyes is very welcome too.
• Another language you'd like to see? Tell me, especially if you'd review it.

How to help (whatever is easiest for you)

1. Look at it in the app. Open the demo at https://demo.open-todo.app (no sign-up), pick your language in Settings → Language and region → Language, and click around: Today, a task, quick add, Settings.
2. Tell me what's wrong. Comment here with a screenshot or the text and what it should say. Small notes like "nobody says X, we say Y" are exactly what helps.
3. Or edit the file directly. All app texts for a language are in one file, e.g. web/src/locales/zh.json. Open a pull request with your changes; you'll be credited in the release notes.

Even 15 minutes of clicking around and pointing out the three worst things is a big help. Until a language has been reviewed by a native speaker, the docs list it as not yet reviewed.

Thank you! 🙏

[mangano-ito]

Hi! I'm a native Japanese speaker and would love to help out with the Japanese translation! Happy to review it when it's ready. :)

[pixari]

Thank you, that's wonderful! Japanese is #884 and comes after 1.0; I'll ping you there as soon as there's something to look at.