Firstly I can’t say who and what the project is, all I can say is that it is a fairly well known fangame.

I offered to translate Catalan dispite it not being my native language and one of the members of the translation team asked me to help out for the main one. After joining, the developer created a new language option for me to translate and work on. Later that day the head Spanish translator asked why they were making a Catalan translation dispite it being rare (I understand but I had offered). People said what harm is there and it was not diverting attention from the Spanish translation when the man ranted along the lines of “Spanish is the only OFFICIAL language of Spain. We don’t translate dialects huh?” Then accused me of being politically motivated and selfish for not helping his Spanish translation. I responded “I am flattered you think my Spanish is that good but I am not Spanish nor politically motivated? I just like languages.”

I’m still quite salty and now I really understand you guys. Sorry for the long rant I need to get this out.

Edit: please DM me if you could help with the translation. My Catalan is alright but I’m struggling a little with translating a medium sized game and since there doesn’t seem to be a Pokémon game in Catalan. If this is completed then that guy would be very pissy.

Edit2: a little clarification

I sometimes sound robotic in languages as I speak formally. This is mostly due to my autism. This tends to not be an issue since I translate text for menus and other elements that usually have that kind of wording. My native language is not Catalan and I am constantly learning.

The volunteer project is set up to allow anyone to add a language and contribute. This makes it quite informal and open to outside help.

No I am not going to publicly post the screenshots, I care deeply for the project and despite that man’s comments no one deserves that.

the lead developer had approved this. It was another translator who argued it should be removed.

This is a very informal fangame, translations don’t burn resources since it is done by each member.

Also please don’t just hop in the comments and Reddit own me? I don’t think that should have to be said.

Final edit hopefully: I’m so tired I can’t imagine how you all feel. Thanks for letting me blow some steam. I have a bad habit of responding to every comment, even negative ones so I might need to take a break.

Final final final edit: THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT AND REACHING OUT TO ME. I got burnt out on the translation and I felt like there was no support for it. This honestly brought tears to my eyes. I am so sorry about any broken parts of my translation. Currently I am working with the other developers to get you all on board!

Estudio als Estats Units i avui acabo de graduar-me de la universitat fent dues carreres, anglès i biologia. Com a membre de la societat d'honor hispànica de la meva universitat, vaig poder adornar la meva estola amb la bandera del meu país. La universitat em va enviar la bandera espanyola i em prohibia utilitzar la bandera catalana ja que no és un "país". Vaig estar mesos lluitant contra l'administració perquè em deixésin portar la bandera catalana i després de molts correus electrònics, peticions i reunions defensant la meva posició, per fi vaig poder portar-la! Estic molt feliç de representar la meva herència catalana mentres rebo el meu diploma avui <3

Ja fa temps que m'empipa trobar-me tanta política americana per tot arreu. Entenc que són importants, sí, perquè són el melic del mon en mil-milionaris, però no deixa de ser una superpotència igual que europa, la xina o russia. Tot i això, me n'assabento molt més de mil tonteries americanes que no pas del que pot arribar a passar a països la meitat d'aprop.

Vaig començar a tenir aquest sentiment fa un parell d'anys quan TV3 va obrir el telenotícies amb una nevada que va passar a no-sé-quin comptat d'Amèrica (bé, de fet sí ho recordo, i encara em fa més ràbia: Oklahoma). Van morir dos persones. Entenc que és possible que no hi haguéssin més titolars, però de debò? Hi ha milers de fets rellevants que enriquiria molt més a tota la societat catalana, que no pas una nevada a un lloc a l'altra banda de l'oceà. Quantes notícies tenim de nord-africa? I de la xina?

M'he inspirat en un post que ara és trending a /r/TrueOffMyChest, però n'estic molt d'acord, i sobretot ara en campanya electoral americana: És impossible escapar de la globalització americana, i em trobo constantment llegint un escàndol en un ajuntament d'un poble que sé ben bé que és ultra-racista pels milers de cops que ha sortit. I és que no te'n pots escapar: /r/midlyinfuriating, /r/iamtotalpieceofshit, /r/trashy, /r/worldpolitics i milers de subreddits més que no tenen la intenció política en el centre, estan constantment bombardejant amb campanya política.

Deu ser guai viure en aquesta espiral de merda americana, si ets americà. De fet, és inclòs entretingut per mi (escullo banda, entro al fons de les discussions polítiques ràpid per saber qui té i deixa de tenir la raó) però me n'adono ràpid que és l'efecte de la globalització americana i que, de fet, estic sent cada cop més americanitzat.

Si tant sols per aquí la gent utilitzés molt més reddit, o se'n normalitzés el seu ús, imagino que hi hauria més contingut del nostre entorn proper, i doncs, un reddit més sà i equilibrat.

Ara per ara, intentaré utilitzar-lo amb moderació, i escaparme de /r/popular més sovint. Sort que tenim /r/anime_titties que intenta fer una bona feina de tot plegat...

Edició: Link al post originak de ToMC https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/j65fzh/i_wouldnt_pay_a_cent_for_reddit_premium_but_i

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Trobats per Madrid i ara a la meva col·lecció. A setena edició parteix que van editar els manuals en català!

Does it bother those in the region of Catalonia when people say something like this? Or even in Ibiza, when people are like, "I went to Ibitha" when both derive from Catalan and neither are pronounced like that in their native language?

I especially hear the statement above from foreigners who just visited the city or even in some movies/TV shows

The other day I noticed an ad on the metro in Barcelona for this campaign. Try to use more Catalan? Sure, I'd love to. As a foreigner who is motivated to learn, it'd be great if this campaign could perhaps tell me where I could do just that.

The page is seemingly only in Catalan, or at least there is no obvious way to find a translation. Okay, it might not be aimed primarily at me, but feels like it's a missed opportunity.

Scrolling down a bit further I come across a message in a couple different languages, so it does seem like they thought about foreigners.

Nothing in English for some reason, but at least it's a sign that there's something for me here. I don't speak Urdu, but I can navigate some Castellano. Clicking that header I find what I'm after – cursos de catalán. Perfect!

The link takes me to this website. There's a tiny button up top that lets me use the page in English. Alright, maybe I could learn from home? There's a link to a page about different course modalities... that takes you to a page that only exists in Catalan. Treball en línia a l’aula Moodle – my university degree wasn't completely useless, at least I know what Moodle is.

Let's just see if I can find a course:

Uhm. Alright, I click the question mark. Ah, it's about a placement test! Don't need that, I know nothing, so let's go to the other page. Again, important text only in Catalan. El meu nivell? Inicial, I guess. Look, I'm learning already. (Also: this is just bad UX and not about Catalan, but the postcode finder only recognises non-Barcelona post codes, you just have to figure out that you need to start typing "Barcelona".)

Finally I find a list of courses. I am met with this rather unwieldy table of information in a language I do not yet speak:

For some reason the word "days" is in English, but that's it.

I'll just click the first one. We're still in Catalan-only mode, with the sole exception of the header saying "find your course". After trying to figure out what's going on here, I find a big red button saying Plataforma d'inscripció i tràmits. Inscription platform, sure. Sounds like what I want.

Finally some English: a message telling me I can't register, and that the only time I can do so is during a 35-hour period starting next Thursday.

I learned nivell earlier. Prova de nivell? Sure.

Well, this is a change – we're now using Spanglish! Why this is a question they felt needed to be part of this particular user journey is beyond me. Anyway, I navigate my way past the registration form – which, with a couple of exceptions, is actually in English, and after a couple of technical battles with a verification code and a captcha I manage to log myself in. I start the test, which is just a couple of questions – Do you speak Spanish? Do you speak any other Romance languages? – and the platform immediately tells me that I should take the Bàsic 1 course...

...but that it is not open for enrollment. I guess I'm waiting for next Thursday, and hope I don't forget this whole thing by then – or wait until the next semester to start.

This whole thing is bad on so many levels. If it weren't for the fact that I've learned privately for a few months this would have been much harder to navigate, and if it weren't for writing this post I'd have given up a long time ago.

Dear Generalitat and Consorci: I agree we should all use more Catalan. I moved here not speaking the language, and I want to learn! Perhaps it would be a good idea to make that process a bit easier?