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Gilles
Dec 22, 2015 20:57
This chatroom is intended as a meeting place for denizens of Stack Exchange's language sites: Chinese Language, English Language Learners, English Language & Usage, French Language, German Language, Italian Language, Japanese Language, Portuguese Language, Русский язык, Russian Language, Spanish Language. 迎接, welcome, bienvenue, willkommen, benvenuti, ようこそ, bem-vindos, добро́ пожа́ловать, bienvenidos!
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Matt E. Эллен
Nov 26, 2020 10:01
The languages & linguistics codidact site might be of interest to people here:
tchrist
Dec 22, 2015 21:42
EF English Proficiency Index
The EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) is a report which attempts to rank countries by the average level of English skills amongst adults. It is the product of EF Education First, a global language training company, and draws its conclusions from data collected via English tests available for free over the internet. The report was published for the first time in March, 2011 based on the results of over 2 million test takers. The most recent, fifth edition was released in November, 2015. == Methodology == The EF EPI fifth edition was calculated using test data from 900,000 test takers in 2014...
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Wrzlprmft
Dec 22, 2015 21:34
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Q: Please vote on new wordings of our welcome text / description of the target audience

WrzlprmftBackground One of the first things every unregistered user sees on our site is this¹: or this: This proposal for making this welcome text bilingual has gained considerable support, but is unfortunately not easily realisable as it would break the layout due to being too long. This question...

feature-request status-completed new-users
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Wrzlprmft
Sep 26, 2016 20:53
If you have any question how other language sites have been handling certain questions (e.g., close reasons, translation questions, etc.), this will be a good place.
Wrzlprmft
Feb 26, 2016 16:16
@Wrzlprmft We used to say if you want us (the Community Team) to be familiar with your community issues, meta posts would have to be in English. But on the rare, rare occasion where this was ever an issue, a post is easily Google-translated. In reality, meta is for the community, so they should post in whichever language is most comfortable for them. The reason to try and enforce "you can post {spanish} everywhere... except meta", in my opinion, was too obscure to worry about in actual practice, so I never worried about it. — Robert Cartaino ♦ 2 mins ago
Gilles
Feb 26, 2016 15:53
> So, yes — Latin should be allowed in questions, answers, comments, flags, meta posts, documentation, usernames, profiles… (Robert Cartaino, emphasis mine)