While Latin appears among the language options, and, even if it’s not a language you usually encounter in videos or movies, ithas some resources such as some added books and the possibility to use the dictionary by clicking individual words, with all the information containing grammar and all, some functionalities are lacking, such as the possibility to listen to the texts, and most importantly, no translations are offered for texts in Latin! While I think there are other requests commenting about the lack of audio for Latin, I have seen none about the fact that no translations appear for Latin, even for the books offered within the site.
This illustrates how there are books, you can read them, and you can use the dictionary as you can see on the right of the page, but not only there’s no audio (there’s a play button, but if you click it you hear nothing), no translations into English or Spanish or whatever translation language you may have chosen appear at all!:
I’m even wondering if this is a bug and translations appeared previously, but now they seem to be unavailable for Latin.
It’s funny because even with languages such as Basque, which have practically no resources and not even books, you can add texts in the section “my texts” and though there’s no audio for Basque, you do see a translation into your translation language, and that is useful, having the option to see the Basque sentences and their translations below neatly placed, which is already an useful functionality in Language Reactor. With Latin, even if some resources such as books have been provided, you don’t see those translations, either with the books offered or if you use the section “my texts”. Not having Latin audio is a pity, but not having translations is atrocious, when you even have them for languages that have even fewer resources in other respects.
I’m wondering, are the translations from other languages powered by Google translate? Because Latin is an option in Google translate, and therefore, if the translations come from Google translate, implementing them for Latin would be something quite easy, just as for other languages. I consider fixing that a matter of more urgency than adding audio for Latin, so before that the translations for Latin should be added. The way Language Reactor places the translation of each sentence neatly beside or below the sentence in question is already a useful function per se, better than just using Google Translate, where you get the translation of the whole text and not of individual sentences with their translations below.
I was in doubt whether this goes in “request” or in “bug” since I don’t know if it’s a disregarded bug or just something not implemented yet.
