Not really, as there are two main criteria for building a successful translation community:

- potential audience for the translation (i.e. native speakers of the target language)

- an interested pool of bilingual speakers to do the translation

Those numbers are far more favourable for native language translations to widely spoken languages like Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and French than they are for Esperanto.

When it comes to the idea of creating a Simple English translation of the standard tutorial, my experience is that what folks are more inclined to do on that front is to just write a new tutorial of their own specifically targeting the audience they care about, rather than translating the standard one.

That provides a lot more freedom to not only adjust the specific words used, but also decide when and how to introduce different concepts based on their particular target audience (e.g. teaching Python to a group of mid-career scientific researchers or a group of professional engineers is very different from teaching it to a classroom full of 6 year olds, or students pursuing a computing degree at university, which in turn are very different from teaching groups of interested people that have designed to sacrifice their own time to attend a community run introduction to programming workshop).

Cheers,

Nick.

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