Commons:Categories for discussion/2021/05/Category:Textbooks of foreign languages

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Category:Textbooks of foreign languages

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Commons is a multilingual project and it makes no sense to have a category for objects written about a "foreign language". It would be better to use the name Category:Language textbooks. Thuresson (talk) 23:25, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the concern here. Any name without "foreign" is welcome. --E4024 (talk) 15:33, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
“Foreign language” can be related to the language in which the book was written and the reader (student) is expected to know. A textbook of Russian for an English speaking student is a “textbook of foreign language”, and so is the textbook of English for a Russian speaking student. A textbook which explains or helps to improve English grammar (orthography, pronunciation, style, etc.) to an English speaking student is a language textbook, but not a foreign language textbook. Hence the “foreign language” makes sence very well. Whether such a category is necessary or useful is another question and I don't have any strong opinion to it. Feel free to discuss it and change it.--Shlomo (talk) 16:40, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
What about Category:Second language textbooks since it's in Category:Second language education? -- 08:17, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
… which itself is in Category:Foreign languages. Honestly, I don't know, seems to me as a linguistic subtlety of English which I as a non-native speaker don't feel qualified to judge.--Shlomo (talk) 10:03, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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