This here feature is the start of allowing you to study on Skritter in source languages other than English. So if you want to see Russian definitions of your Chinese words or German definitions of your Japanese words, for example, you can start doing that. We’ve imported a few tons of words from freely available dictionaries, so if you want to learn in one of the languages pairs covered by those, there should be a lot of words done already! To start seeing alternate language definitions, go to the “lang” dropdown in the upper right when you’re logged in and choose your tongue.
We’ve also begun accepting definitions that other users have added for these other languages. So as more users start to use these features and add translations while practicing, we’ll gradually build multilingual Chinese and Japanese dictionaries aimed at learners–great! To add a definition in another language, just edit it and use the “submit as correction” checkbox.
I’ve started off allowing you to choose from ten source languages to start off, just based on popularity, but we could easily add more. Some of these languages don’t have many definitions in the system yet, but as we amass more vocabulary sources, they’ll start to rock. I’m looking forward to Chinese-Chinese study myself. If your language isn’t in the system, and you want to start adding a bunch of translations for it, let me know and I’ll add it.
We haven’t started translating the rest of the site interface into these languages; that’ll be a while later.
Questions? Let us know in the comments!