[Mod Request] Parallel Subtitles for Language Learners
So, first of all, I am making this thread because I don't know if this is even technically possible, but I've seen mods that add new UI elements on screen and new menu options in the main menu, so maybe?
Anyway. I bet for most of you guys here who aren't native English speakers, playing games in English was a great way to get better at the language - and these days, games like Witcher 3 which have full translations and voice acting until multiple major languages are a great way to get practice with any of them.
The problem is, this method works best if you are at language fluency B2+ which is to say even you might not be able to freely express yourself in speech or writing with 100% fluency, but you more or less understand everything that's going on even in something complicated and fast-moving like an RPG. But if you're still at a fluency level where you're struggling with the more complicated sentences and vocabulary, well, playing something like W3 in that language is hard. If you're having trouble with something in a menu or quest log or in an inventory description, well, at least time doesn't move there so you can ALT+TAB and open the dictionary and work it out. Dialogue, though... Dialogue moves quick and it doesn't wait for you and the dialogue is where the language gets most complicated in these games.
I've been dabbling in learning Polish by myself and been hoping to eventually play Witcher 3 in its mother tongue, so I've been wondering, is it possible to create a mod that will show you the same line of any given dialogue in two languages at the same time? I'm thinking it'd look something like this (forgive my clumsy five minute photoshop):
So, there's be an additional sub-menu for this MOD in the main menu, where you get to pick the Target Language (the one you're learning, the one the UI and all text are in by default) and also the Translation Language (that's what the mod would add in the new UI elements, the language that you are fluent in). And when the game would pulls up a string of dialogue it would not only put the default language version of the string in the default dialogue UI element, but also the Translation Language version of the string into the new UI element below it.
If this was technically feasible with the modding tools available, that would be amazing and really useful to a lot of people. And if that could be done, one more feature that would really help is an element that shows the translation of whatever dialogue option you currently have selected, something like this:
Finally, I suspect this can't be done, but the next-level awesome shit would be also to figure out a way to temporarily translate the inventory and quest log entries by pushing a button or something, but that's not something I am even hoping for.
I would be super-grateful if anyone could provide any thought or assistance.
EDIT: Sigh. Either I'm really bad at it, or uploading images to the forum software is a big wonky. Just going to
So, first of all, I am making this thread because I don't know if this is even technically possible, but I've seen mods that add new UI elements on screen and new menu options in the main menu, so maybe?
Anyway. I bet for most of you guys here who aren't native English speakers, playing games in English was a great way to get better at the language - and these days, games like Witcher 3 which have full translations and voice acting until multiple major languages are a great way to get practice with any of them.
The problem is, this method works best if you are at language fluency B2+ which is to say even you might not be able to freely express yourself in speech or writing with 100% fluency, but you more or less understand everything that's going on even in something complicated and fast-moving like an RPG. But if you're still at a fluency level where you're struggling with the more complicated sentences and vocabulary, well, playing something like W3 in that language is hard. If you're having trouble with something in a menu or quest log or in an inventory description, well, at least time doesn't move there so you can ALT+TAB and open the dictionary and work it out. Dialogue, though... Dialogue moves quick and it doesn't wait for you and the dialogue is where the language gets most complicated in these games.
I've been dabbling in learning Polish by myself and been hoping to eventually play Witcher 3 in its mother tongue, so I've been wondering, is it possible to create a mod that will show you the same line of any given dialogue in two languages at the same time? I'm thinking it'd look something like this (forgive my clumsy five minute photoshop):
So, there's be an additional sub-menu for this MOD in the main menu, where you get to pick the Target Language (the one you're learning, the one the UI and all text are in by default) and also the Translation Language (that's what the mod would add in the new UI elements, the language that you are fluent in). And when the game would pulls up a string of dialogue it would not only put the default language version of the string in the default dialogue UI element, but also the Translation Language version of the string into the new UI element below it.
If this was technically feasible with the modding tools available, that would be amazing and really useful to a lot of people. And if that could be done, one more feature that would really help is an element that shows the translation of whatever dialogue option you currently have selected, something like this:
Finally, I suspect this can't be done, but the next-level awesome shit would be also to figure out a way to temporarily translate the inventory and quest log entries by pushing a button or something, but that's not something I am even hoping for.
I would be super-grateful if anyone could provide any thought or assistance.
EDIT: Sigh. Either I'm really bad at it, or uploading images to the forum software is a big wonky. Just going to
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