First PR help desk: pick a useful starter issue

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Welcome. If you want to make a first contribution to ai-language-partner, comment here with the lane you prefer and a maintainer can suggest a scoped issue.

Useful starting points:

• Starter issue index: https://github.com/duct-tape2/ai-language-partner/blob/main/docs/community/STARTER_ISSUE_INDEX.md
• Contributor landing: https://github.com/duct-tape2/ai-language-partner/blob/main/docs/community/CONTRIBUTOR_LANDING.md
• First PR walkthrough: https://github.com/duct-tape2/ai-language-partner/blob/main/docs/community/FIRST_PR_WALKTHROUGH.md
• Contributor interest form: https://github.com/duct-tape2/ai-language-partner/issues/new?template=contributor_interest.yml

Good first contribution lanes:

• Korean/Japanese docs
• Japanese naturalness review
• Dialogue content review
• Mobile accessibility
• FastAPI/OpenAPI examples
• Tests/tooling
• Release/community process

No local speech engines, generated audio, private data, or API keys are needed for a useful first PR.

For Claude for OSS evidence, only real external contributors with useful merged PRs count. Maintainer-authored PRs, bots, duplicate identities, and metric-only changes are excluded.

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Maintainer update: localized contributor pages are now live for first PRs:

• Korean: https://duct-tape2.github.io/ai-language-partner/ko/
• Japanese: https://duct-tape2.github.io/ai-language-partner/ja/
• Main contributor page: https://duct-tape2.github.io/ai-language-partner/

These pages link the starter issue index, first PR walkthrough, contributor interest form, and the Claude for OSS counting policy. No local speech engines, generated audio, private data, or API keys are needed for docs/content/accessibility/test PRs.