Librarians volunteering language skills: The Volunteer Thread

[Sigrun]

German - native speaker
English - second language, now first for over 50 years
French - third for over 50 years, have lived in France

Latin, Spanish and Russian - mostly basics, though took Russian at university for over 3 years, just haven't really been able to use it properly. I've used my Spanish on holidays in Spain, Mexico, and Dominican Republic, but I still need more practice.

[Emelie]

Swedish: Mother tongue.

[dzbannik]

Polish - native

[Devin]

English: Fluent
Swedish: Native language
Norwegian: Advanced (which I rate lower than fluent)
Danish: Advanced
German: Basic
Spanish: Basic
Dutch: Basic

I have studied Lingustics,Translation (Swedish <-> English), Grammar and Literature at university, and have a special interest in medical and religious terms in English and Swedish.

[Septima]

if this is still a thing

i am a native speaker for german and english

[Carmen]

Spanish: native
Dutch: fluent

[Lizzie]

Basic Spanish (first language)
Basic Japanese (majoring; around level 4 in JLPT)

[Marija]

Portuguese;
Italian;
Serbian.

[Elaine]

Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) - Native
Korean - Basic

[Louise]

swedish - fluent
french - pretty good
spanish - very basic
english - fluent

also may understand danish and norweigan, and know a little bit of latin if it would be needed:)

[Alanna]

I am a professional French-English translator.

[Kyle]

Italian (intermediate)

[Recato]

Cait wrote: "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 thei..."

I can do Afrikaans. But no Icelandic sorry.

[Veronika]

German: Fluent - native
French, Spanish: Average (I understand about 70% of things I read and can communicate on a basic level)

[✘✘ Sarah ✘✘ (former Nefarious Breeder of Murderous Crustaceans)]

French: fluent - native
Spanish: fluent - native

[Marwan]

Arabic: Native

[Lorre]

Dutch: fluent in reading and writing
French: fluent in reading average in writing

[Grianne]

Italian: fluent - native

[Mar]

Spanish: fluent - native (I work as a Spanish/English translator)

[Anna]

Polish - native

[Elwira]

Polish - native

[Deborah]

German: fluent-native
French: basics
Latin: intermediate

[[deleted user]]

Tamil-native
Hindi-intermediate
French-basics

[Amélie]

French : fluent - native
German : intermediate

[Catalina]

Romanian - native
Italian - fluent

[Moris]

Croatian native, fluent in all South Slavic languages, could read Cyrillic script. Basic knowledge of Italian.

If anyone knows an issue with a book in Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, drop me a message, I'll see what can I do.

[Marcus]

Swedish - Native
English - Fluent
Danish - Basic
Norwegian - Basic

Let me know if I can help in any way!

[Siina]

Finnish - native
Japanese - good
Swedish - fluent
French - intermediate
Latin - basic
Italian - very basic
Russian - very basic
German - somewhat less than basic

[Biena]

Filipino - fluent
Chinese Mandarin - basic
French - very basic

[James]

English - Native
Welsh - Native

[Linda]

English - Native
Swedish - Fluent
Danish - advanced
Norwegian - advanced
Japanese - advanced
Modern Greek - basic (plus native-speaker spouse I can strong-arm into helping out)

[Yasmin]

Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Japanese.

[Annemieke]

Dutch - Native
English - fluent
French - basic
German - basic

[Empress]

Bulgarian - Native
English - advanced (I don't consider myself fluent)

[Jan]

Swedish - native
English - fluent
German - basic
Norwegian - basic
Danish - basic to rudimentary
Spanish - rudimentary

[Christa綺思]

English - native
Filipino/Tagalog - intermediate
Mandarin Chinese - intermediate

[Azusa]

English- Fluent
Japanese- intermediate
Hmong- Native
French- intermediate

[Häbbät]

German - native
Latin - intermediate
French - basic

[Antonio]

Italian - native
English - intermediate
French - basic

[[deleted user]]

I would very much like to volunteer =)
Malay - Native
English - Fluent

[Jabont]

Thai - fluent

[Löni]

German - native
English - fluent
French - basic
Finnish & Latin - rudimentary

[Candys]

Spanish - Fluent

[Kris]

Dutch - fluent
French - fluent

[Nada]

I'm fluent in Arabic and will be happy to help :) <3

[❄️ Propertea Of Frostea ❄️ Bitter SnoBerry ❄]

English and Hindi...

[FoW]

Korean: Native
English: Basic

[Panot]

Thai: Native
English: Fluent
Japanese: Fluent

[Liam || Books 'n Beards]

English: Fluent
Australian: Native :P

[Kyrelloss]

arabic fluent native
german basic