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message 210: by Gwen (new)

Nophoto-f-25x33 Dutch: Fluent (mother tongue)
French: intermediate
German: very basic, I can read it and translate parts of it, but that's about it


message 209: by Therese (new)

2922039 Italian: fluent
French: Advanced
German: Intermediate
Spanish: Basic

I also have cataloging experience using Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Russian.


message 208: by Jekaterina (new)

2884162 Russian(mother's tongue)


message 207: by Nicoal (new)

96616 Spanish - fluent


message 206: by Bárbara (new)

2404656 Portuguese: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Medium
Italian: Basic

Soon I'll have Swedish basic skills too :)


message 205: by Mahyar (new)

343578 Farsi = fluent

Arabic = basic



I'd like to help U as much as I can. :)


message 204: by Ulises (new)

2894623 Spanish: fluent
Japanese: near fluent
French: intermediate
Italian: basic
Norwegian: basic


message 203: by Bethany (new)

2730971 German fluent


message 202: by Paul (new)

2708232 French - Fluent
German - Fluent


message 201: by Omnia (new)

Nophoto-f-25x33 arabic native



message 200: by John (new)

2858376 Dutch: native language


message 199: by KatiKat (new)

198122 Czech - native


message 198: by David (new)

2800613 Chinese: native
Malay: intermediate


message 197: by Maxim (last edited Oct 12, 2009 03:10PM) (new)

Nophoto-m-25x33 Russian: native



message 196: by Mari (new)

Nophoto-u-25x33 Chinese :fluent
English:intermediate


message 195: by Waterfall (new)

2111328 Norwegian - native speaker

I can probably get by in Danish and Swedish too, since the languages are quite similar.


message 194: by Katarina (new)

1145931 Fluent: Swedish


message 193: by Victoria (new)

2186440 Russian - native speaker
Japanese - intermediate


message 192: by Laura (new)

1321553 French and German -- used to be pretty fluent in both but am probably closer to "intermediate" now. My reading comprehension has kept up better than my speaking.


message 191: by The CB (new)

2457243 Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian: fluent


message 190: by Couture.Dior.Megan (last edited Sep 02, 2009 01:31PM) (new)

2417140 French-fluent


message 189: by Ahmed " Lio " (new)

2558756 Arabic - Fluent

English - Fluent

Italian - Intermediate


message 188: by Laura (new)

2409316 Portuguese - fluent
Spanish - basic


message 187: by Plch (last edited Aug 17, 2009 03:28PM) (new)

1916127 Italian -native language
French - intermediate (I forgot most of French grammar...)
Czech -intermediate


message 186: by okyrhoe (new)

825356 Greek - fluent

English - fluent


message 185: by Laura (new)

900147 I can help in the following languages:

Portuguese - fluent, native language
French - fluent
Spanish - fluent (reading only, not writting)



message 184: by Mayona (new)

2583940 Russian - fluent
Estonian - fluent
Portuguese - basic


message 183: by Liliana (new)

1796153 Polish - native language, obviously very fluent


message 182: by Zala (last edited Aug 05, 2009 06:24AM) (new)

713596 I already tried to work on some books in my language - that is, Slovenian. There aren't many, though, since the language is only spoken by two milion people, but if you ever need my help (I saw Slovenian was on the list and nobody volunteered yet), it's my mother tongue. :)


message 181: by Ana (new)

2461060 Hi! I can help with:
Portuguese - fluent (native language)
Spanish and Italian - very basic (just because of some similarity with portuguese)


message 180: by Cecile (new)

2513986 I can help with French, it's my native language.


message 179: by Dominic (last edited Jul 19, 2009 11:39AM) (new)

1933633 I can offer:
French: Fluent
German: Intermediate
Japanese: Advanced Basic (But with reference material, fluent enought to do what needs to be done for goodreads.)
Let me know if you guys need help. =]


message 178: by ♥BookGeek♥ (new)

2254001 I'm there if you need help with French books. I'm fluent in French.
Hebrew to a certain extent...


message 177: by Abigail (last edited Jul 18, 2009 10:03PM) (new)

424514 Harking back to the issue of the Irish language, I can confirm that although it is sometimes informally called "Gaelic" (particularly amongst Irish-Americans), it is officially "Irish." The term "Gaelic," by itself, usually refers to the Scots Gaelic spoken (and written) in parts of the Highlands, the Hebrides, etc.

Although it has been some time since I studied it, I have some basic skills in Irish, if you'd like to put me down as the librarian for that language. I have some friends who are fluent, and can get help in the case of questions I can't answer myself.

Irish - basic


message 176: by Vicky (new)

303522 Dutch - fluent (native)
French - intermediate (more than basic, but not fluent)
German - basic


message 175: by Sandy (new)

618376 Russian - fluent


message 174: by Sally (new)

1419902 Cait wrote: "Sally, this is a thread for people to post volunteer offers for helping with the GR catalog, not ask for volunteers for other projects.

If you are looking for volunteers, you could make a new post..."


Thanks for clarifying. Sorry.


message 173: by Cait (last edited Jul 11, 2009 10:17AM) (new)

1005037 Sally, this is a thread for people to post volunteer offers for helping with the GR catalog, not ask for volunteers for other projects.

If you are looking for volunteers, you could make a new post -- but I would suggest explaining what MERLOT is and why you think that people volunteering for GR would be interested in helping you with a different project. This may not be an appropriate group for this at all. (There are groups for GR users who are also librarians to discuss being librarians, and those groups might welcome this discussion, but this group is for people who are volunteering on GR itself: "Goodreads librarian" is a term for volunteers, and doesn't mean that we're all librarians professionally. It's a common confusion, but you should check the description of the group.)


message 172: by Sally (new)

1419902 I work on the Library and Information Services editorial board of MERLOT.org. We have a couple of learning objects that need reviewing. One is Hebrew and one is Spanish. Can anyone help?


message 171: by Bogging (new)

Nophoto-f-25x33 I can help with:

Cebuano - fluent (native)
Filipino - fluent
Japanese - intermediate


message 170: by Val (new)

2150375 I can offer:
German and Italian (native languages)
Spanish (intermediate)




message 169: by Janepage (new)

1308072 Spanish, and basic. But I'm going to become fluent :)


message 168: by stormhawk (new)

2016887 German, Advanced Basic.

(a bit rusty, but I managed to read Harry Potter)


message 167: by Fatma (new)

1538605 Hello, I'd like to help!

Arabic: Fluent.

Good luck ..


message 166: by Lee (last edited Jun 30, 2009 10:16AM) (new)

1813476 I'm fluent in Polish.

I know a few more languages on basic level but I don't feel competent enough to make any translations... There's plenty of other more skilled users around ;)


message 165: by Ana C. (new)

1592383 Portuguese - Fluent (native language)
French - Basic
Spanish - Basic



message 164: by Cait (new)

1005037 Mistress of Night wrote: "I dont have any other languages but have 2 friends who speak fluent korean and russian."

Are they volunteering to assist with GR cataloging with requests going through you? If they're willing, it seems like it would be simpler for them to be listed directly....


message 163: by XXmelancholyXX (new)

2442031 I dont have any other languages but have 2 friends who speak fluent korean and russian.


message 162: by Adna (last edited Jun 26, 2009 06:37PM) (new)

2456903 I am doing my best to fix (and add) book listings from Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian writers. I am fluent in those languages.


message 161: by Angie (new)

2343573 I can't offer any help here, but Hindi would probably be a good language to add to the list.

(I'd love it if Tibetan could also be added to the list but have yet to come across a Tibetan on goodreads and my Tibetan sucks to the point where I can't really read. But for future reference...)


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