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Translating Exercism (i18n) Greek (el)
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If you’d like to help translate Exercism to Greek please add a comment here containing the following:

  • Introducing yourself (your name, where you live, your coding experience, any other personal information you want to share, etc)
  • Your level of fluency in Greek
  • Your level of fluency in English

Once three people have committed, we’ll bootstrap this language for you.

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I can help! I’m a native speaker of Greek (currently in Greece) and I have a lot of Greek textbooks that pertain to programming (some from my own studies, some from my brother). Usually, at the points where concepts were introduced or defined, there’s the english term in parentheses next to the greek term.

I also have some professional programming experience - but, truth be told, people at the workplace tend to use the english terms because most info online (from stackexchange to reference manuals) is in English, so that’s what we get used to.

If you want to get far in programming, you’ll eventually have to learn English. But it’s still worth having some resources in Greek. Language shouldn’t be such a huge barrier to at least get started with coding.

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Welcome @VaiaPatta1985, and thank you for offering to help. A native Greek speaker with programming experience and Greek textbooks is very useful to us.

Here is where your help would count most:

  1. The glossary. The pinned glossary thread is [Greek Review] Glossary. It holds the agreed terms, and Exercism’s own words (track, mentoring, iteration and so on) appear on hundreds of pages, so a better Greek term there improves the whole site. Your textbooks are a good source. If a term in the glossary differs from the one your books use, please tell us which term, which book or field it comes from, and which you would choose.
  2. The live site. Exercism is already available in Greek. Please use it as a student would, and start a thread in this category whenever something reads wrong, quoting the text and saying where you saw it (the track, the exercise, which part of the page). We act on each report.

You mention that people at work use English terms. That is useful to know. When a term is normally left in English in Greek programming, please say so, so that we keep it in English.