Librarians volunteering language skills: New Volunteer Thread

[rivka, Former Moderator]

This is a list of volunteers who are willing to help with Goodreads book records in languages other than English. For a lot of authors, their books in English are neatened up and combined but their books in other languages are left alone because the volunteers couldn't find any information in languages they could read. So, for example, if you volunteered as an Icelandic cataloger, that would mean that someone working on an author with Icelandic-language books might message you to ask for help with those books, which might involve identifying English translations of certain editions, standardizing series names, or that sort of thing -- all of the regular librarian work, but specifically for Icelandic books that non-Icelandic-speaking librarians can't handle.

If you are willing to help out, please comment HERE with what languages you read and whether your proficiency is "fluent" or "basic". Bear in mind that this is only useful if your profile is public or you have turned on messaging so that other librarians can contact you with questions!

If you are looking for assistance with a particular language and cannot find anyone on this list to help you, you can always start a new thread in the Language & Translation Issues folder requesting help. Some librarians may not want to be general volunteers but could help out in specific cases.

An earlier version of this thread was being compiled into a list by language of volunteers, but since this wasn't very useful that list is no longer maintained.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Last page of previous thread also has some recent volunteers.

[Gabriella]

Portuguese (BR) - native
Spanish - intermediate
French - basic

[Sandra]

German - native/fluent

[ACaffeinatedReader]

Portuguese (EU) - Native
English - fluent

[Linda]

Swedish - fluent
Norwegian - advanced
Danish - advanced
Japanese - advanced
Greek (modern) - intermediate

[Lau]

Portuguese (portugal) - native
Spanish - intermediate
French - intermediate

[Marcos]

Portuguese (Brazilian) - fluent

[Mimi]

not a librarian (yet), but would love to help out.

Dutch: native
English: fluent
German: fluent (although a bit rusty)
French: basic (fairly good reading skills, poor writing)

[Emtiaj]

Bengali (Native)
English (intermediate)

[Michelle]

Chinese (fluent)
Japanese (basic)

[Pia]

Danish (native)

[Anastasiya]

Russian native, Spanish very good, German good, French basic

[Tuatara]

Finnish - native
Swedish - basic