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Make a Rosetta Stone type project for it.

There was this Yiddish/Hebrew program for the Mac, but the programmer died and nobody has the source code and it stopped working.

Make it free or open source so it can continue with the Aramaic language.



A lot of the value of various languages is in the cultural nuances that are both expressed by the language and a part of it. Sometimes the nuances are in the spoken form, and properly understanding all the nuances would require living among the culture.

A translator program might be an interesting project in some other ways, and I guess technology might help some people get involved with the language or help bridge the gap. A translator doesn't really solve the problem, though.


>it stopped working

Can always run it on a VM unless it requires connection to some server to function.




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