4. Effort and Cost
Based on this case study, we roughly estimated the effort used in constructing the necessary sources for each new language and compiled the following summarizing chart.
| Language | Language skills | GF skills | Informed development | Informed testing | Impact of external tools | RGL Changes | Overall effort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | ### | ### | - | - | ? | # | ## |
| Catalan | ### | ### | - | - | ? | # | # |
| Danish | - | ### | + | + | ## | # | ## |
| Dutch | - | ### | + | + | ## | # | ## |
| English | ## | ### | - | + | - | - | # |
| Finnish | ### | ### | - | - | ? | # | ## |
| French | ## | ### | - | + | ? | # | # |
| German | # | ### | + | + | ## | ## | ### |
| Italian | ### | # | - | - | ? | ## | ## |
| Norwegian | # | ### | + | - | ## | # | ## |
| Polish | ### | ### | + | + | # | # | ## |
| Romanian | ### | ### | - | - | # | ### | ### |
| Spanish | ## | # | - | - | ? | - | ## |
| Swedish | ## | ### | - | + | ? | - | ## |
Legend
Language skills
- - : no skills
- # : passive knowledge
- ## : fluent non-native
- ### : native speaker
GF skills
- - : no skills
- # : basic skills (2-day GF tutorial)
- ## : medium skills (previous experience of similar task)
- ### : advanced skills (resource grammar writer/substantial contributor)
Informed Development/Informed testing
- - : no
- + : yes
Impact of external tools
- ?: not investigated
- - : no effect on the Phrasebook
- # : small impact (literal translation, simple idioms)
- ## : medium effect (translation of more forms of words, contextual preposition)
- ### : great effect (no extra work needed, translations are correct)
RGL changes (resource grammars library)
- - : no changes
- # : 1-3 minor changes
- ## : 4-10 minor changes, 1-3 medium changes
- ### : >10 changes of any kind
Overall effort (including extra work on resource grammars)
- # : less than 8 person hours
- ## : 8-24 person hours
- ### : >24 person hours
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