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Hearing is very important and to hear from Srila Prabhupada practically constitutes the perfection of hearing.

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Introduction

Welcome to Vanimedia's first lecture of Srila Prabhupada - presented with multi language subtitles. This class was given on the Caitanya-caritamrta in Sridhama Mayapura on the 6th of April 1975.

The first clip is called Expand to 10,000,000 Acaryas (on the video, click the "captions" button to select your language) This is a 'pre-release' test clip with static image only and low sound quality. The final version will be much nicer...

Finished Languages

Currently we have following subtitles in 22 languages:

• Bulgarian
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Macedonian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish

Indian languages

• Gujarati
• Hindi

Languages in Process

and languages that are in process are

• Armenian
• Hebrew
• Persian
• Russian
• Manipurian

Languages Needed

European Languages

• Albanian
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Norwegian
• Romanian
• Slovak
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

Indian Languages

• Assamese
• Awadhi - also spoken in Nepal
• Bengali - also spoken in Bangladesh
• Bhojpuri - also spoekn in Mauritius and Nepal
• Chittagonian
• Haryanvi
• Kannada
• Maithili - also spoken in Nepal
• Magahi - also spoken in Nepal
• Malayalam
• Marathi
• Marwari
• Oriyan
• Punjabi - Eastern
• Punjabi - Western
• Sindhi - also spoken in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Singapore
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Urdu

Chinese Languages

• Min Nan
• Gan
• Hakka
• Jinyu
• Mandarin
• Wu
• Xiang
• Yue (Cantonese)

African Languages

• Hausa - spoken in Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo
• Svahili
• Yoruba - spoken in Benin, Nigeria

Other Languages

• Arabic
• Azerbaijani, South
• Burmese
• Japanese
• Javanese
• Korean
• Malay
• Pashto
• Nepali
• Sinhalese
• Sundanese - Indonesia
• Tagalog - Phillipines
• Thai
• Vietnamese

Goal

We want to offer to the worldwide followers of Srila Prabhupada at least 1008, 3 to 5 minute clips of Srila Prabhupada's classes all subtitled with at least 32 and up to 64 languages. This project will surely prove to be one of the most uniting forces of Srila Prabhupada's multi language family from all corners of the globe. It will also greatly help to increase the family members of Srila Prabhupada of this there is no doubt. Please support this effort generously.

Initial Goal

Our initial goal for the first class is to have at least 32 languages subtitled by Gaura Purnima. (already 22)

Starting the Seva

This is a collaborative service being offered by followers of His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of the International Society of Krsna Consciousness. If you want to help then please follow the directions here and with only 1 hour of service you will have translated a new language. If you know of devotees who could translate the missing languages then please share this link with them. Any questions can be asked to [email protected]

• Instructions for translators: translationSteps.docx

• Text for translation: translation.docx

Blessings Please

Praying for the blessings of the Vaisnavas we are gearing up to make hundreds of similar clips, thus facilitating people from every corner of the world speaking as many languages as possible to directly hear and understand Srila Prabhupada's sublime message of truth and love.