About the Tanaka Corpus, Tatoeba.org and www.ManyThings.org

Attribution, Copyright, etc.

www.ManyThings.org has used this data from tatoeba.org. Their data is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution 2.0 France license. (terms of use page on tatoeba.org)

Though the source data is available under the CC BY license, the pages on this website have been edited and are copyrighted.
If you would also like to do a project using this corpus, you can get the source data from their downloads page.

Tatoeba.org is a large database of example sentences translated into many languages by its members who volunteer their time.
You, too, can easily become a member and help make corrections and additions.
- If you do become a member, I highly recommend that you ONLY contribute sentences in your own native language, translating from your non-native language.
- It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language.
For more information watch What is Tatoeba.org @ YouTube.com - A video by TRANG (the tatoeba.org admin)
What You Can Do and How to Do It

You can click the links to read [Translations] or read the [Source] documentation.

1. We want complete sentences.: [Translations] [Source]
2. Don't change sentences that are correct.: [Translations] [Source]
- You can, instead, submit natural-sounding alternate translations.
3. Don't add sentences from copyrighted sources.: [Translations] [Source]
4. We want natural-sounding translations, not word-for-word direct translations.: [Translations] [Source]
Of course, we don't want computer translations.
5. Make a good translation of the sentence that you are translating. Don't let translations into other languages influence you.: [Translations] [Source]
6. Don't add annotations.: [Translations] [Source]
In other words, don't do this kind of thing.
X It's raining cats and dogs. (idiom)
X I like her/him.

For more information, read the FAQ @ tatoeba.org.

Please read the Warning / Caution.
- Briefly, not only are there errors, but there are sentences that sound a bit unnatural.
- In addition to the errors still remaining from the original Tanaka Corpus, there are also errors in new sentences contributed by members who are overconfident in their abilities in their non-native langauges.