Any news on the Arabic progress?
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Proofreading + getting harakat added for at least the first few levels. Aiming for release within the next month.
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a Few have mentioned Hebrew, so I would like to add my vote for that language as well. I am patiently waiting for it, as the other languages work so lovely for me, especially turkish.
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Is Cantonese ever getting added? It was one of the first languages in the initial progress post but has been stuck at 30% for half a year. Slowly losing hope as 20+ other languages have reached 100% with more languages being added every day yet Cantonese has completely stalled.
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Hi, can anyone else here vouch for the quality of the Korean sentences? I have started working through the Korean with pro.
So far I haven’t noticed anything explicitly wrong, the sentences are just very formal often.
I’m not fluent though, maybe upper intermediate so if someone could give a second opinion that would be cool.
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Hey, there hasn’t been any update on this for a while, do you plan to finish the languages above or even add new languages?
Thanks for the nudge - updated!
Polish, Norwegian, and Indonesian are done and should be released within the next month. We’re currently exploring text-to-speech options.
Arabic - we got stuck on the harakat and we’re redoing it.
Cantonese - we got stuck here as translators and proofreaders were often in disagreement on the quality of each other’s work. We’ve paused it for now, but we do plan on getting back to it. I don’t have a specific timeline at the moment, likely within the next couple months.
We’re also proofreading the stress marks for Russian again, which isn’t reflected here at the moment.
Work in progress! Big 2025 ahead.
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Hi Mike, thanks for the update! I guess there are not many Finnish learners, but do you maybe plan to release a new fast track for it?
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I’m very glad to hear that. Are the fixes being made as they’re found, or are you waiting to check them all in at once? I’m still seeing a lot of errors in the new Fluency Track level that I’m currently playing (Level 7). I’ve reported them with the red “Report” button and posted them to the forum, but I still haven’t gotten any notifications of fixed sentences. Are my reports being seen and acted upon? Have you had a chance to look into the problem of notifications not being sent? (As I mentioned earlier, they’re not being sent to my spam folder.)
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@drm00 Finnish - yes! I don’t have a timeline at the moment though.
@alanf_us - all at once. Thanks for the reports. Work in progress!
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Just as a note, I started doing Welsh again and noticed a ton of errors still. Seems like about half have some kind of error. Often it is a word in the wrong place in the sentence or a bit of an anglicism thrown in. Welsh is strange in that there aren’t so many pure native speakers and there is some dialectical variation, but would really appreciate a once over in proofreading!
It’s stuff, fwiw, that ChatGPT is pretty fuzzy in its ability to get correct (e.g., when soft mutations are used, how complex pieces of phrases get put together, etc.).
Separately, would put another plug in for Latin (!!!) and for Swahili
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When is the new Ukrainian Fast Track coming out, and maybe you should add some structure to it. (i.e. little sub-topics on different stuff like “Going out for dinner” - like scenarios)
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Thanks for letting us know! Which collection?
This is apparently a challenge with Welsh - what’s colloquial / used day-to-day might not be textbook correct. We’ll see what we can do!
In the new fast fluency (collection 1). Assuming it continues as well as the list goes on but haven’t checked much.
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The new Fast Track for Indonesian is now available! 
Romanian, Norwegian, and Polish are translated/proofread and we’ll be working to make those available next. Tagalog should be completed soon, and we’ve started on European Portuguese.
More updates soon!
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Russian has the New Fast Track, but is not listed in the progress bars at the top. You should give yourself some credit. 
Also, realphabetizing the progress bars would make it easier for people to find a specific language.
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Also, could you consider adding sentences lists for all of these languages in the section at the bottom of the Clozemaster dashboard.
For example, although they aren’t listed, Italian and Indonesian from English both have landing pages, but there are no sentences there.
I’m not sure whether you have curated sentence lists for all of these other languages.
P.S. I’m not sure why Italian from English has never been there as it was one of the first languages to be released.
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Russian added and alphabetized!
Yes! Should be doable, thanks for the nudge. How are you using these lists?
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My usage of these lists (well, so far only the German ones) is directly related to your question about the podcasts -
When you first made these lists, I thought they were interesting, but not something I would make great use of.
Similarly, when you announced the podcasts with LoFi background music, I thought that these were very good, but I couldn’t really see myself using them much because I like to be able to see what is spoken e.g. if there is a word that is unfamiliar and I’m not quite sure what it was, or else to add a sentence with such a word into a collection.
Then, when I went back to listen again to one of the podcasts of sentences in German, I realised that each set of 20 podcast sentences was the same as the 20 sentences in the list with the same name. I note that in the description of the YouTube video this is stated and a link provided, but this doesn’t work the other way round i.e. there is nothing in the sentence list description that states that there are podcasts or YouTube videos available that loop over the sentence lists.
So I then realised that this was much more powerful as a learning tool than the sum of its parts (podcast + sentence list)!
I realised that I could now listen to a podcast, and for any sentence that I thought was interesting I could find it in the sentence list to see how it looks written down, and then optionally click “Add to collection” if I want to practice it.
So that is how I would use the sentences (and how I have done it a tiny bit with German), however …
Firstly, I don’t use Spotify for my podcasts, and so I’d need an easy way of getting access to them from elsewhere (I personally use both Apple and YouTube Music (because they closed down Google Podcasts), but others might possibly use other tools). The link that you provided to be able to access the German sentences worked for me, but we would need something like that for each language.
Secondly, some of the languages that I’m currently putting most time into don’t have either podcasts, or sentences, or both (e.g. Turkish and Indonesian).
So, here is what I would very much like to request that you do -
- Add sentence lists for all languages for which you have produced a New Fluency Fast Track course.
- Make a set of podcasts for each of these languages for the same sets of sentences.
- In the sentence lists description for each language (or even for each list), state that these are also available as a podcast with LoFi background music, and put a link to the podcast (either by saying available on … and list several podcast platforms, or add an anchor.fm RSS link as you did before), and to the YouTube video if you continue to make those as well.
- … Advertise this feature.
Personally, I find that there are so many great resources and possibilities with Clozemaster, but many things aren’t easy to find, or else they aren’t advertised or marketted. Perhaps other people would be interested in the " podcast → sentence list → add to collection " workflow that I mentioned, but they might not have realised that these things are connected - even for the YouTube video, most people probably don’t click to reveal the full video description where the reverse link to the sentences is then available.
So that would be my request and reasoning for having more sentence lists … and complimentary podcasts.
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Hi Mike, I have a few quesions about the new fast track collection I didn’t find an answer for:
- How many sentences are there (in average) for each cloze word?
- Based on what order are the sentences displayed? The cloze word frequency? Based on what frequency list?
- Is there any correlation between the collection number (1-10) and the CEFR level?
- When do you expect to roll out the new fast track for Romanian and Arabic?
Thanks.
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