Any updates on the new Arabic, Polish, and Norwegian fast track? They’ve been on finished and soon for a few months now. Really looking forward to starting on Arabic 
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Registering interest in Finnish being updated too!
Also, Yoruba being added, at all 
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I note on the tracker that Brazilian Portuguese is shown as complete, whereas European Portuguese is about 30% done. Does this mean that I can be confident the sentences (and clozemaster audio?) in the Fast Track Portuguese that is currently available now is BP? Presumably, when EP fast track is complete, there will be some UI available to switch between these two?
Thanks!
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Got the email update and saw that Fast Track 2 and 3 were live for Catalan - I didn’t even know that Fast Track 1 was live!!! It’s not listed on the top of this topic, unless I missed it.
I hope there are plans to finish this all the way to Fast Track 10, but I’m so glad to have these 3 to get going with! I have liked the Fast Tracks far better than the mixed collection that was there for Catalan before.
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Glad the Fast Track 1-3 for Catalan is up, but there are a lot of mistakes. Seems like some machine translation-type errors. I’ve reported the ones that I have found for sure, but someone who is fully proficient should go over these carefully to get them all fixed.
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Interesting. I’m about 850 sentences through Fast Track 1 for Catalan and I’ve reported 12 sentences so far. Would you say the quality gets worse as you get to 2 and 3? Are they wrong translations or just bad Catalan?
I would say the quality gets slightly worse. Some are wrong translations - in many cases just straight-up Spanish words. More often it is a verb in the past tense that simply isn’t conjugated. Only the infinitive is there, probably should be like, “ell va parlar” instead of “ell parlar”, stuff like that. There are also many sentences with no capitalization for the first word.
My Catalan is pretty good, but not good enough that I am confident that I am catching every error.
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Hi! Are you planning on adding Hebrew anytime soon in the New Fasttrack? 
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Just finished Catalan Fast Track Level 2 and you’re spot on: the quality is much worse than Level 1. I reported 230 of the 1000 sentences: verbs in the wrong tense, wrong articles with nouns (wrong gender or no elision), Spanish words, awful calques of Spanish or English (why is the adjective before the noun so often? I didn’t even report those ones), direct objects marked with “a” (Spanish), overuse of “estar” (Spanish), … Really disappointing to see this shoddy machine translation approach, which makes you question the integrity of the sentences that don’t have glaring errors in them. And so disrespectful to Catalan, which is under enough pressure from Spanish without having learners learn this Castillianised bilge.
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Yeah, I really hope someone who knows the language well can go over these with a fine toothed comb and get them fixed up. And after that, hopefully, start adding the next fast tracker levels. I keep reporting anything that I see as obviously wrong to me. If the two of us, and others, do the same, hopefully that clean up can be made a bit more easy for someone with the expertise to do it properly.
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@Crick_G @mvk20 thanks for all the reports! Work in progress to get everything cleaned up. It’s challenge finding trustworthy translators/proofreaders, thanks for your help and patience.
@LivelySound3226 Hebrew - it’s backlogged, meaning we’ll get to it but I’m not sure when just yet.
@FallingMeadow7063 correct the European Portuguese will likely be its own separate language pairing.
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Even if it takes a while I’m glad to hear hebrew is in fact coming!
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Is the Tagalog Fast Track still being worked on or no?