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	##	###	-	+	?	-	##

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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