掲示板 Forums - translation center – new language suggestions

The main reason that other languages do not exist is because we do not have a dictionary data file for that language from Japanese to the language.

renshuu itself (the app, without any of the definitions for words, grammar, kanji, etc.) is several thousand words/sentences long, and on top of that, just for the most basic of quizzes, you really need a few thousand definitions for words, kanji, etc. Some of the "major" languages already in there are 10s of thousands of definitions, and English still pops up all over the place while studying.

So without finding some copyright-free or open-source database file with Japanese->Korean (for example) definitions, there's not enough of a base upon which to build user-contributed translations. I would absolutely love to have more languages available, but I do not want volunteers to potentially put hours of work into a language, only for it to never appear available in renshuu because it does not cross over a minimal threshold for amount of data.

I believe that for the languages you mentioned and others, the most effective use of time at the moment is to try and look for those dictionary files. It is hard for me to do so because any page/service maintaining such a thing is most likely not written in English.

A few requirements:

1. We'd need something that does not have usage restrictions on it (copyright, licensing, etc.)

2. I am not looking to add machine-translated dictionary data

3. It needs to be an actual file that can be downloaded, and not a "free Japanese->Korean dictionary site" that has a lookup mechanism.

One method that has resulted in success with other languages is finding apps in the Play Store or App Store that are dictionary apps for Japanese>Korean, and then look into the app's details/information and see where they got their data from.